Summer in Code
With our two booking projects behind us (thanks Tim Sweeney, Joakim, Hearthrob, Damien Culvelier and Slumber Party! Joakim pics here, Hearthrob here), sQuare productions turns back to our film project.
Director Amy Grill has set a deadline for the completion of the edit, or at least a rough-cut, of our feature film Speaking in Code. The Sundance Film Festival, America’s most famous independent festival, is taking submission for its 2008 festival. The deadline for feature-film submission is Sept 14th. We’re gonna be done by then.
That gives us all summer long to log the rest of our 230 hours of footage and start plotting the arc of the documentary. To finish by then, however, we need to buy more things. First and foremost, two terrabit drives in order to house the film, and some kind of large display (as in the 20″ version here), to view all our footage in a proper way.
Here again is the one-minute trailer snippet for your viewing pleasure:
The full five-minute version is available upon request from the director.
Speaking in Code is a story of an electronic music underground and how it operates. Through the eyes of journalists, producers, promoters and DJs, the audience watches as dreams come true, things fall apart and life unfolds. Through a group of wonderfully engaging characters, a story of reliance, devotion and interconnectivity relays universal themes of art, survival and community.
More here. Stories about Speaking in Code can be found here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
We’ve had to move our edit suite back to the home base (sQuareone R.I.P.), but the art we supported through our studio space lives on. Tonight new work of Jeff Sweat is being premiered in Boston’s South End:
If you’re in Boston, we would encourage you to attend. Or stop by the gallery while the work is one display this month.
The summer is coming in New England and it’s always a beautiful thing. Trees blooming, baseball in the air and we can open the windows again. Here’re two tracks for the 07 summertime.
Armand Van Helden - “I Want Your Soul”
Interviewing Boston’s own International superstar tomorrow. This one is off his newest album, Ghettoblaster. One for the highway, open the sunroof.
This is for the nighttime. Newest track from the mysterious dubstep artist Burial. The self-titled 2006 debut was our favorite album of the decade (buy it here). This one is off the forthcoming “Box of Dub” from Soul Jazz Records. Possibly the Greatest Record Store on Earth (their newsletter is here).
One more, the fantastic combination of Ame, Henrik Schwarz and Dixon with the empowering vocals of Chicago House maven Derrik Carter. As featured in Body Language Vol. 4, one of the best mix CDs of the year. Pick it up here.
Henrik Schwarz, Ame and Dixon Feat. Derrick L. Carter - “Where We At (Part 1)”
The road less traveled is now the path of choice.