Beach Town update

photo by Erik Hammen

"What's your film about?"

A girl moves to the beach
and spends a lazy summer 
exploring the ramshackle beach town 
and falling in love with the wrong boy.

Beach Town, a rock 'n' roll beach movie... of the mind.

I think this understates the issue, but dang -- if anyone's got a better way to say this in one sentence, let me know. Artists are the people least-qualified to describe their own work.

I'm at the point in editing where it's pass after pass over the same material, looking as much at overall flow as little details. But of course, the better it flows the more the little warts stand out. Then when I stop and shave off the warts, the flow is changed. What? yes.

That said, there's nothing like hanging out with other artists to invigorate your own work. I spent the weekend in Minnesota, eating and drinking with a whole bunch of fine and lovely people and arts-types, some of them even 'Beacho or film-related, including:

Thomas "Folkadelic Two-step" Wold. His song "Downstream" is in the film and whose new, third record is just about done.

Paul D. Dickinson and Jessica Raymond (from The Last City in the East, the film I made back in 2011). Beers. Laffs. Paul has a new project boiling up but I probably can't mention it yet. Happy birthday, Jessica.

I also had dinner and more drinks with experimental/narrative filmmaker Rolf Belgum, (Driver 23, Atlas Moth, She Unfolds by Day) and his clever and lovely fiancee Heather. I even got to see a few clips from his long-gestating and still untitled new film! Fantastic!

Back in Seattle, I'm looking forward to a very productive and sunny week this coming week.