GH2 at Sundance!

cupanudles

Wired has a great, new article on the film! It's exciting and inspiring to have our GH2 used in this capacity! This guy is a TRUE independent filmmaker.

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/03/primer-shane-carruth/

The film is available for pre-order on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/upstream-color/id595142167

Soundtrack on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/upstream-color-original-motion/id602614649

matt_gh2

Very cool.

Fontee

That was a great article. Really looking forward to the limited release in April.

DouglasHorn

I'm looking forward to seeing this film. I watched Primer about 5 times in succession. I think Carruth is a pretty clever guy. His best move was casting Amy Seimetz, who I've also had the pleasure of directing. She is a real artist and is going to have an amazing career, I promise you.

I have two feature films in distribution and the GH2 is a far better camera than what I used to shoot either of them. It looks fantastic, thanks in large part to the hack. From here on out, all camera improvements are just gilding the lilly.

Manu4Vendetta

http://bostonglobe.com/arts/movies/2013/04/13/upstream-color-deals-shades-gray/T5CjrJpqtcP5R60zanf0BN/story.html

ntsan

Just noticed it broke $100,000 in boxoffice today

dumile

Saw Upstream Color when it played at Brattle back in March and Carruth did a Q&A afterwards. The film was awesome but very different from Primer. There is much less dialogue in UC. It relies on images to tell the story, which really shows how much he's grown as a filmmaker.

Carruth is very humble most of the time but you can see how intense he is when he talks about the act of filmmaking. He wants control of everything from the soundtrack to the movie poster. Interesting note, the entire movie sprung from a thought experiment.

kraqman

Watched Upstream Color in the theater today. The IQ was superb and clean on the big screen. There were certain scenes with uneven lighting/color between cuts, but that could have been an artistic/editing choice.

jleo

Film Society Lincoln Center

Q&A: "Upstream Color", Shane Carruth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5cjq_Lb2F2I

maxr

I loved Primer, what a great, well done low budget sci-fi flick!!!

In Upstream Color there's undeniably a HUGE amount of work too. IMO its peculiar structure resembles a music composition where Shane Carruth's intricate inner universes unfold sometimes giving birth to a micro-narrative movement, sometimes more into a drift-like impro. So in a way is more like listening. To me, what gives cohesion (and coherence) to the whole is that Shane's just follows his own rules/directions... maybe also his weaknesses. Does it make him free? Does it make Upstream Color a better motion picture?

It is pretty obvious Carruth has a deep knowledge of the the cinema métier, a fine tuned sensitivity and that he believes in what he's doing. Which takes me to the incredible merit of being able to make it (writing, producing, directing, acting, co-editing, scoring, etc) and putting it out (also distributing it).

I think you can learn A LOT watching (and listening) to Upstream Color. There are fabulous scenes where mise en scène (I do love this word), frame, color (sometimes the absence of it), cadence, action and sound are one... indivisible... that's something quite good, to put it childishly. There are other decisions though that hijack me away from... the action, the experience: the abusive use of shallow DOF - which instead of helping keep the focus, completely looses me - the masturFlaring thing, the repetition of shots and POVs, the differences in grading, the sometimes gloomy and cold and desperate and heavy weather moods, the rhythm hyper-slowdowns with, apparently, no purpose, etc.

The puzzling narrative (actually plenty linear and self absorbed) is ok, nothing cutting edge or going too deep (I guess that's the sacrifice for such a... "personal view" shifting option ;P) which is absolutely nothing bad. Strangely the fragmented story is not very appealing to me and it felt more interesting closer to the characters (Kris' working charm) - and here I must say its silences are "atmospherically nurturing" not burdens and that's not easy to do fellas.

So Shane Carruth is someone who may become a great director; I can think of a poor Kubrick, a rol-game addict Sokurov (not quite Tarkovsky) or even Rashomon's Kurosawa on valium; here delivers a more than recommendable experience. Now in a few years, when I watch Upstream Color again I'll see if, like Primer, ages well.

gashô

PS - original score https://soundcloud.com/shane-carruth

jleo

As more directors abandon Hollywood, or vice versa, the Curruth DIY method may become more prevalent.

http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/how-hollywoods-limitations-are-forcing-established-directors-into-retirement-or-out-of-the-system.php

The worst development in film-making – particularly in the last five years – is how badly directors are treated," Soderbergh told New York magazine. "It's become absolutely horrible the way the people with the money decide they can fart in the kitchen, to put it bluntly.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/jan/30/steven-soderbergh-retires-from-film

State of Cinema: Steven Soderbergh

TRANSCRIPT:

http://www.deadline.com/2013/04/steven-soderbergh-state-of-cinema-address/

soundgh2 · soundgh2 May 2013 Primer on Film4 tonight 10:50PM UK

Primer on Film4 tonight 10:50PM UK

maxr

Soda-berg is a good>fine director, no doubt about that; but for someone who last film had a right amount corrected 52 mill budget... this kind of talks... positioning... hummm... I visualize someone who has one foot in each side... and still a bungee jumping rope (just in case). Anyway, makes you think, analyze, sometimes laugh and above all want to steal his pink tie and draw a big fat smiling pig. cheers @jleo

TrackZillas

Wow!!! that was shot on a GH2 that's insane the images are so beautiful. Let's support the movie by pre-ordering it on Itunes and watching it in theaters. Like someone mentioned before me if it was shot on Canon DSLR's there would of been all types of publications about it, the ball is in our hands PV community let's make the GH2 shine & VK, also the patch makers for all their hard work.

jleo

Upstream Color now on Bluray May 7th

http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/60127/upstream-color-bd-dvd-combo-pack/

matthewcarr

I watched this the other day without knowing it was shot on a GH2. It looked great, not just as a movie shot on a GH2, but compared to any movie. Although, the audio might have been even better. After watching, my girlfriend said "The story was really weird, but I could follow it easily." Naturally, I agreed, but she was totally right.

B3Guy

Going to see it Friday, so excited! Also, I believe you can now rent and buy it on iTunes.

geddyt

Best part is that you can buy the movie directly from Carruth's website in HD with no DRM. If it takes independents to figure out what the customer actually wants, then call me an indie movie fan! If you do want this movie, that's the method that's going to put the most money in the creators' pockets. No middle man, no DRM, no fucking Amazon only allowing you to watch in HD if you do so on a Kindle Fire HD, XBOX360, or iPad...

As to the movie, I really liked it!

oscillian

http://erbpfilm.com/

Is this the site?

driftwood

Editor, David Lowery, mentioned to me that Upstream Color was edited in Final Cut Pro, and then exported to AE for FX work and DaVinci for color.

qwerty123

Earlier I said it would be fun to see if we can get Shane and / or his DP to come on personal-view for thread or a chat of some sort. But I just heard an interview with him in which he said he wants "the camera to go away" and that it should be on the same level of "getting insurance" or whatever for the film. I really like the general ethos behind this idea.