http://rylandwalkerknight.com Ryland Walker Knight Sat, 25 May 2013 15:07:20 +0000 http://rylandwalkerknight.com en http://rylandwalkerknight.com/Coi-Stories-and-Recipes http://rylandwalkerknight.com/following/rylandwalkerknight.com/Coi-Stories-and-Recipes Sat, 25 May 2013 15:07:20 +0000 Ryland Walker Knight 5687668 I cut this spot made by Strike Anywhere. Full credits. I cut this spot made by Strike Anywhere. Full credits. http://rylandwalkerknight.com/Cannes-for-CARGO http://rylandwalkerknight.com/following/rylandwalkerknight.com/Cannes-for-CARGO Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:24:23 +0000 Ryland Walker Knight 3198290 In 2011, I went to Cannes for the first time as an acredited journalist. Among other things, I blogged for CARGO, the Berlin-based film magazine run by Ekkehard Knörer, Bert Rabhandl and Simon Rothöhler. <img src="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3198290/cargo-cannes.jpg" width="670" height="679" width_o="1010" height_o="1024" src_o="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3198290/cargo-cannes_o.jpg" data-mid="16369342" border="0" align="left"/> In 2011, I went to Cannes for the first time as an acredited journalist. Among other things, I blogged for CARGO, the Berlin-based film magazine run by Ekkehard... http://rylandwalkerknight.com/The-Pile-Up-of-Days http://rylandwalkerknight.com/following/rylandwalkerknight.com/The-Pile-Up-of-Days Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:31:38 +0000 Ryland Walker Knight 3193937 An essay I wrote for N1FR, n+1's Film Review, about my first experience in Cannes. You can buy a copy on the N+1 site, if you like to read hard copies of first rate writing (click if you'd like more reasons). <img src="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3193937/nifr-column.jpg" width="648" height="958" width_o="648" height_o="958" src_o="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3193937/nifr-column_o.jpg" data-mid="16345845" border="0" align="left"/> An essay I wrote for N1FR, n+1's Film Review, about my first experience in Cannes. You can buy a copy on the N+1 site, if you like to read hard copies of first rate... http://rylandwalkerknight.com/Found-Facts-September-08 http://rylandwalkerknight.com/following/rylandwalkerknight.com/Found-Facts-September-08 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:09:45 +0000 Ryland Walker Knight 3193795 Part of the Found Facts series I made in 2008, each one a sort of chopped and screwed vision of a month, or an event. Part of the Found Facts series I made in 2008, each one a sort of chopped and screwed vision of a month, or an event. http://rylandwalkerknight.com/CHEZ-MOCKING-SEAGULL http://rylandwalkerknight.com/following/rylandwalkerknight.com/CHEZ-MOCKING-SEAGULL Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:12:07 +0000 Ryland Walker Knight 3193275 For Danny and Adrian For Danny and Adrian http://rylandwalkerknight.com/IMAGES-1 http://rylandwalkerknight.com/following/rylandwalkerknight.com/IMAGES-1 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:59:18 +0000 Ryland Walker Knight 3193117 <img src="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3193117/6381287785_c1d9377e8c_b.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3193117/6381287785_c1d9377e8c_b_o.jpg" data-mid="16352171" border="0" align="left"/> In 2011, I bought myself a Canon Rebel T2i and a 50mm lens—just for fun!—and making images has since taken over large parts of my life. I learned Photoshop and Final Cut and have not quit. I have a flickr of stills here but my real passion is moving images, like these. Below is a list of projects I have worked on or am working on. <img src="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3193117/5726437896_b6ed15bc11_b.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3193117/5726437896_b6ed15bc11_b_o.jpg" data-mid="16352356" border="0" align="left"/> 2014: —A feature film. 2013: —Making a living primarily as an editor. I am available for commercials, short subjects and features (documentary and narrative). My favorite work so far has been cutting "Coi: Stories and Recipes" about the chef and writer, Daniel Patterson, which you can see here. —My second short, The Lights Go Out, is in pre-production. —I'm still editing A Lie, which is something like a documentary and something like a dance piece. <img src="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3193117/8116614636_b769f01ce3_o.png" width="670" height="376" width_o="958" height_o="538" src_o="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3193117/8116614636_b769f01ce3_o_o.png" data-mid="30717036" border="0" align="left"/> 2012: —My first narrative short, Headlands [14'44], still above —A short essay film, Box Out, about dance (well, basketball), [4'45] —A little doc about my dog, Patience Pays [6'12] You can see an excerpt here. <img src="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3193117/IMG_1990_1000.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3193117/IMG_1990_1000_o.jpg" data-mid="16352060" border="0" align="left"/> 2011: —David's Folly [16'], about a farm in Maine with the same name. Stills available here (and above). —Summer CH Counterpoint [2'33], available here. —CHEZ MOCKING SEAGULL [1'54], about the apartment we rented in Cannes, is here. —The Cannes Questionnaires series [various] available here. —West Dressed [5'55], which was made for &Review. Before: —A series of shorts called Found Facts, which can be seen here. My favorite was September 08 [10'07] and you can watch it here. Made with a Canon Powershot and iMovie, these were my earliest attempts to explore the idea of digital-as-mosaic. In 2011, I bought myself a Canon Rebel T2i and a 50mm lens—just for fun!—and making images has since taken over large parts of my life. I learned Photoshop... http://rylandwalkerknight.com/VINYL-IS-HEAVY http://rylandwalkerknight.com/following/rylandwalkerknight.com/VINYL-IS-HEAVY Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:50:24 +0000 Ryland Walker Knight 3192194 <img src="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3192194/vinyl.blog.header.jpg" width="670" height="373" width_o="713" height_o="398" src_o="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3192194/vinyl.blog.header_o.jpg" data-mid="16337361" border="0" align="left"/> My old blogspot blog is where I started writing in public and it has a lot of different kinds of writing and images. Some series I'm proud of: A Conjunction of Quotations, Convergences, Alain à la recherche, BANG BANG, The Lynch Mob, SFIFF54 coverage and my Cannes 2011 coverage. Hell, we even had a podcast for a while. As my life has shifted away from long form compositions and more stray thoughts in words (at least for now), I've begun to use my tumblr as my scrapbook, my mnemonic aid for ideas for later. My old blogspot blog is where I started writing in public and it has a lot of different kinds of writing and images. Some series I'm proud of: A Conjunction of... http://rylandwalkerknight.com/Summer-CH-Counterpoint http://rylandwalkerknight.com/following/rylandwalkerknight.com/Summer-CH-Counterpoint Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:27:24 +0000 Ryland Walker Knight 3191926 A short film made with Mark Haslam. A short film made with Mark Haslam. http://rylandwalkerknight.com/WORDS http://rylandwalkerknight.com/following/rylandwalkerknight.com/WORDS Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:17:10 +0000 Ryland Walker Knight 3191848 <img src="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3191848/8807883754_2433c0017e_o.jpg" width="612" height="456" width_o="612" height_o="456" src_o="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3191848/8807883754_2433c0017e_o_o.jpg" data-mid="30713952" border="0" align="left"/> "LES" c. 2005 I started writing criticism in 2005. You can peruse a selected CV of that work below. Criticism took a necessary backseat in 2008, however, when I graduated from UC Berkeley and started a career in brand consulting. I have worked with clients large and small, from Microsoft to Hamilton Zanze & Co., developing brand strategy, naming products and writing copy. I still write criticism, albeit far less frequently thanks to my corporate career, and because I started to make my own movies in 2012. For more on that, click here. For all kinds of essays, keep scrolling. NOTEBOOK The After-Image, an essay about the recent films by Nathaniel Dorsky, seeing, and images in general 2011 Fantasy Double Bill, The City Below and World on a Wire A Cluster of Ideas on Contagion, a conversation with Danny Kasman Cannes Questionnaires, a series of video interviews from Cannes 2011 Out Of The Past: Five Old Flames My contribution to the 2010 Poll of fantasy Double Bills. I wrote about Bell, Book & Candle and Wild Grass La Varda, a paean to Agnès Varda Nothing's Perfect: Where the Wild Things Are and Fantastic Mr. Fox Peeking around corners: writing A Letter to Uncle Boonmee with Joe Images of the Decade, a project with Danny Kasman, in two parts: one for images and one for their captions. The Notebook's 2nd Annual Writers Poll: Fantasy Double Features of 2009; mine is in Part I. Jeanne Dielman: Solitude's a fortress? Bay Area: A Flare for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. F.W. Murnau's Sunrise: Harbor daze and drunk on you Now in theatres: Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino, USA) Frontiers of Extinction: A Conversation about Michael Mann's Public Enemies, with Daniel Kasman and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky. A glance at Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach Dreyer Diary #3: Ordet 35 rhums, on the night shift. Breadlines and Champagne! Man's Castle (1933, Borzage) Douglas Sirk's Magnificent Obsession: We Poor Devils The Notebook's First Annual Writers' Poll: Ryland Walker Knight (Wrangle yourself and laugh) Samuel Fuller's White Dog: Natural is not in it. An amber kaleidoscope: Lola Montes (Ophüls, 1955) CARGO Blog coverage of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival on David O'Russell and The Fighter on Wes Anderson on Jane Campion's Bright Star + in English on James Gray + in English N1FR The Pile Up Of Days, about my first trip to Cannes in 2011 THIS RECORDING Sodey Pop « In Which We Watch Steven Soderbergh Mayhem » &REVIEW [website] As "Guest Editor" I penned the introduction to "Garments" (issue no.4) and contributed the video "West Dressed" [blog post] "Plumule, or, I never meant to make a fist" (issue no.3, a poem) [blog post] "No answers, or, Winter is over if you want it" (issue no.2, a poem) [blog post] REVERSE SHOT We’ve Got to Get Out of This Place, on Claire Denis' U.S. Go Home The Touch, on Michael Mann and his digital cinema Back at the Ranch, on Gus Van Sant's Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Making the Mortal Immortal, on Andrei Tarkovsky's Mirror GREENCINE DAILY The Rich Pageantry of Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR Last Lost: Season 6, Eps. 1 & 2, "LA X" Ratatouille's sense of taste, of place 2008: Lessons and laughs and leaps. New New World: An Exchange, A Conversation, An Epigraph Baggy like a house, and running away: Playing catch-up with Arnaud Desplechin’s My Sex Life... and Kings and Queen. San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2008: A Series of Introductions, A Question of Communion Pedro Costa at PFA, Day 4: In Vanda's Room Pedro Costa at PFA, Day 3: Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? and Sicilia! with "6 Bagatelas" Pedro Costa at PFA, Day 2: Blood and Bones, “Ne change rien” Pedro Costa at PFA, Day 1: Colossal Youth 2007: It's okay to play catch-up. Yes, it's true: There Will Be Blood. The Host is Hungry Return to the movies, return to the world: Ratatouille & Paprika To Live is To Learn: Kenji Mizoguchi on screen, on DVD Afraid to get wet? Plunging into and flipping At World's End. Appreciation: Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith 5 for the Day: Antonioni 5 for the Day: Double Bills Arms open wide, and how. Fishing with David Lynch. Lateral Sculpture: Béla Tarr's Sátántangó 2006: Swiss Cheese Masculinity 5 for the Day: Life Changing Criticism "LES" c. 2005 I started writing criticism in 2005. You can peruse a selected CV of that work below. Criticism took a necessary backseat in 2008, however, when I...