The Cottage

So many friends and tutors in the acting – and ‘creative’ – world, being young and on-the-whole inexperienced, have been struggling to find work in the last 6 months. Harry Lloyd, my sort of cousin, is a notable exception.

One of the big frustrations, it seems, is that there is little opportunity to be entrepreneurial. Production, and even-more-so distribution, costs are still prohibitively high; it’s a world in which new media has had little success inveighing the gate-keepers.

The phenomenal Vincent Moon should give at least a glimmer of hope. I’m hoping to write a fuller post about him shortly; this from his Wiki entry will have to suffice for now:

Chryde, founder of the website La Blogothèque, wanted to shake things up and find another way to share music and Vincent Moon wanted to film music differently. Chryde offered Moon to go and film musicians in Paris. The so called Take-Away Shows (or the French title Les Concerts a Emporter) have existed since April 2006. The large amount of clips is the result of a very fast filmed process with mostly one take recordings in a way comparable to the Dogma 95 concept. Comparable with the field recordings of Alan Lomax or the Peel Sessions of John Peel, Moon has set up a large collection of unique single take recordings enhanced with artistic filmed video footage. The fast filming process he uses is a form of guerrilla filmmaking. The sessions are usually two or three tracks filmed improvised in an unusual environment and as such they often had a rough and ready, demo-like feel, somewhere between a live performance and a finished music video. These live, unusually staged performances differ from the artifice of traditional music videos in favor of single-take, organic and primarily acoustic sessions.

Here’s my favourite of his videos;

and – below – too more videos of exquisite flair: