Monthly Archives: July 2009
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Jul 09
Film Diary 2
This week, Brian Huberman (BH) productions are off in Silver City, New Mexico to continue filming for the work-in-progress, Geronimo Country.
The crew will meet up with Jerry Eagan, explorer and Vietnam War veteran, who is responsible for guiding the filmmakers through all of the Geronimo-country they have seen so far.
This trip, Brian hopes to learn more about Eagan's past as a volunteer infantrymen in the Vietnam War. Clearly, his experience as a point man, moving through the jungle, on the lookout for "the enemy" has very interesting resonance with the less visible subjects of the film: the Apache Indians, like Geronimo, who once roamed this now fenced landscape freely.
Eagan maintains a website, Hiking Apacheria, which he uses to sell photographs from his treks in this historically signficant landscape.
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Jul 09
Film Diary 1
This weekend, BH productions traveled up to Austin for a day to meet friend, Kim Henkel, who introduced us to friends of the late, great Lou Perryman.
Because of Perryman's tragic death, this film project has become a lot like the previous BH project: John Wayne's THE ALAMO, which was made after Wayne's death.
Creating a film about a particular subject, who you cannot film, becomes a strange exercise in exploring negative space: you must go after the people who know your subject best and try to fill in around the empty space their absence has created.
"Lou Perryman" is a film in progress, tracing the life and tall-tales lead by an actor, cult-hero and Texas archetype.
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Jul 09
Yoko Ono still a Target
Art critic Reginia Hackett takes her well-worn hatchett to Yoko Ono, who has a piece hanging in the Seattle Art Museum show, Target Practice.
Who says all the gun fighters are gone?
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Jul 09
“Bruno” Persona compared to Blackface
In light of the controversial blackface appearance in the newest project, Alligator-Horses, this reference to blackface seems interesting.
"Baron Cohen's Brüno is a gay minstrel, in the most literal sense of the word. Just as the characters of the burnt-cork vaudevillians had, bound up ineluctably with their dark complexions, traits like being shiftless, lazy, and 'a-feared of spooks' as their eyes bugged out in Neanderthal, superstitious terror, Brüno's homosexuality comes bundled up with a lot of unattractive software." --David Rakoff
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Jul 09
Video is here
See both the filmography and works in progress pages to view short video clips of a selection of Brian's films.
Geronimo's Country from Brian Huberman on Vimeo.
