Jack at Indie October 2, 2009
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I’m pleased to announce The House That Jack Built will be showing at Indie Coffee on 1225 Regent St. in the fair city of Madison, WI – the film’s city of origin.
The screening will be free at 7pm on Thursday, October 22nd.
The film runs about 30 minutes, and then I’ll be on hand to field a Q&A session afterwards; come on down, I’d love to meet you!
Check out the teaser trailer below, and a couple reviews of the film:
Scott Gordon’s review from the Onion’s Decider Madison (from the Wisconsin premiere at the Orpheum Stage Door).
The Film 101 podcast review (also from the Wisconsin premiere at the Orpheum Stage Door)
-William, Director
Director’s Cut Interview September 1, 2009
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When I was in High School, Sunday afternoons meant hours and hours of Doctor Who on Wisconsin Public Television. That lead to Masterpiece Theatre and pledge drives. (Yes, I enjoyed watching pledge drives.)
So I’d like to think that now I am keeping company with Gallifreyans and Alistair Cooke, as I was just interviewed today by Charles Monroe-Kane for the WPT show Director’s Cut.
The Halloween Special will air Saturday October 31st at 10:30 pm on Wisconsin Public Television, and the interview is also posted on their website. Charles and I discuss The House That Jack Built and its self-ascribed genre, faerie tale-horror-romance.
I think the interview went all right, but we had to restart once; early on I started listening to my own academic-cinematic-jargon and that caused me to totally space out! Three-dollar words exhaust a man.
Click here to see some behind-the-scenes pics taken by dp and co-producer Jeff Lyon. Props to Jeff for being on hand and for not breaking my iPhone. :)
I’d also like to recommend two extant interviews from Director’s Cut.
The first is with Frank Anderson and Barry Poltermann for their excellent documentary The Life of Reilly. I’ve known Frank for many a moon and he’s awesome, a great animator and director, and he saw Herzog films in first release, so what’s not to love. See The Life of Reilly – 100% on Rotten Tomatoes! There’s a super fun stop-motion flashback; I got to see the tabletop set in person; pretty sweet.
The second interview I recommend is with the husband and wife filmmaking team Troy and Frances Perkins. I’ll never forget when Troy and I went to see Bergman’s Wild Strawberries in college, and later Soderbergh’s King of the Hill.
Anderson-Poltermann interview here.
Troy and Frances Perkins interview here.
-William, Director
The Lab Has Moved August 3, 2009
Posted by William J. Meyer in Jack's Post-Production.add a comment
I’m a sentimental guy. So when I moved this past weekend, it occurred to me how production on The House That Jack Built had just gotten underway days after moving into my (then) new flat. Last week I literally finished tweaking the sound mix (and outputting uncompressed scene files) mere hours before moving out. Memories of the film and that apartment will be inseparable.
So long, little guy. Be brave.
-William, Director
