Category Archives: Film

Short film music documentary feature: Arto Lindsay…do you remember me?

Text by Sohrab Saadat Lardjevardi

Just by chance, when I was looking for a Melvin Gibbs YouTube video for the DooBeeDoo music listings, I found this video which features Arto Lindsay’s special appearance at the opening reception for Jean-Michel Basquiat’s exhibition, “Sketchbook for Arto”.

I have known Arto since 1991 when I met him and his band The Ambitious Lovers for the first time at the Club Quattro in Tokyo. We met backstage and became friends. I met him again in NY the next year. He invited me to his big apartment in Manhattan. We talked about the NY music scene and about doing some music together. The next year we met again in Tokyo, when he toured Japan again. In his free time I showed him around Tokyo.

From that time on I lost touch with him, because he didn’t come to Japan and I didn’t go to NY. But I heard from music colleagues that he moved to Brazil for private reasons.

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Film documentary: Birders – The Central Park Effect featuring Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi for “32 seconds of fame.”

 

Title: Birders: The Central Park Effect
Director: Jeffrey Kimball
Producer: OTHER NOISES PRODUCTION
Music composer: Paul Damian Hogan
Editor: Daniel Baer
Length: 60 minutes
Country: USA
Media: HBO Documentary Films
Premier show date: Monday, July 16, 2012 at 9pm and it will be shown for 6 months or more
DVD release: by the end of this year

Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

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DVD recommendation: Folk Cinema – this WORLD is UNREAL like a SNAKE in a ROPE?!

Title: This World Is Unreal Like A Snake In A Rope
Cat.#: DVD SF073
Label: Sublime Frequencies
Release date: out
Genre: trad. South Indian music
Buy the DVD here

A film by Robert Millis. Folk cinema from the eternal never-ending collage that is INDIA. A journey through the ancient Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu featuring Hindu trance ceremonies, street music, festivals, nagaswaram improvisations, impossibly loud cities, ancient temples, processions, devotions, decay, fireworks, abstractions and more. India is impossible to know: it is impossibly old and impossibly new, impossibly rich and impossibly poor, quiet and chaotic. Offered here is one perspective, raw, captured live and in the moment, with an emphasis on India’s complex and mesmerizing sounds. DVD features bonus photo gallery with over 100 images. 50 minutes/Color; digipack; all-region DVD; NTSC format. Limited one-time edition of 1000 copies.

Short Film: Leo Rabkin’s “nugatory divagations” transforming ordinary materials into something different.

Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

A couple of days ago Augusta Palmer mailed a new video of hers which she wants to share with the DooBeeDoo readers around the world.

Hey Sohrab,

I just made this short piece inspired by the work of a great 92 year-old artist, Leo Rabkin.
Share it far & wide if you like it. I want to get the word out that Leo (who made the great boxes in the film), has a show at Luise Ross Gallery. I don’t know whether you’ll like it, but the music is by a good friend, Greg Karnilaw…

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New York Japan CineFest: Short Film Program

Co-presented by Asia Society and Mar Creation, Inc.

Date: Friday, June 8, 2012
Time: 6:30pm – 9pm
Venue: Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, New York)

Highlighting some of the most exciting new voices in cinema, these seven award-winning shorts, including live action and animation, offer rich insight into the imagination and creative impulse of seven U.S.-based filmmakers. Program attended by filmmakers. Reception to follow, sponsored by Asahi Beer. Among all the films DooBeeDoo recommends The 8th Samurai.

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