Delighted to be part of the Talent Lab for this year’s @reykjavikfilmfestival I’m looking forward to meeting all my fellow filmmakers, and enjoying the films that will be screening this year ☺️🙌🏾🥳

Lots of exciting new films coming soon! 😃

In the late 19thC, Philip Wilson Steer looked to France for new painting styles. His 'Fisher Children, Étaples,' (1884) with its hazy Whistlerian view and groups of children is signposted in other paintings of this era especially in work made at Walberswick on the Suffolk coast.

Madame de… (d. Max Ophüls) and Eyes Wide Shut (d. Stanley Kubrick). It’s easy to see why Kubrick was inspired by Ophüls’ use of camera movement to transport characters and audience to another plane of reality. The effect can be romantic but also dizzying, a dream that waltzes into a nightmare.

Bill Brayshaw, a former policeman, found fame as the dozing art gallery attendant after Harry Rutherford's portrait of him was used as the front cover of the magazine 'John Bull' in 1947. Walter Sickert later said Rutherford was his 'intellectual heir and executor.'

‘There is nothing in the film beyond what you feel,’ said Antonioni to an interviewer. There is nothing in Red Desert beyond what Giuliana feels (or beyond what you feel about her feelings), so how can you understand the role of her environment in shaping her (and your) emotional state? #filmsky

The History of Sound is out now in the US! I want to give a special shout out to my dad, Peter Amidon, who did a beautiful arrangement of "All Is Well," which is featured in the film. You can listen to and download his arrangement here: amidoncommunitymusic.com/products/all...

"It is shameful that we know far more about the surface of Mars and its atmosphere than we know about parts of our oceans."

In the 1930s, Christopher Nevinson turned towards a realistic, traditionalist style of painting, departing from the abstract modernist works of his early career and WW1 period. He looked for a period of peace and repose and found it in pictures such as 'The Strand,' in London.

Giuliana in Red Desert, dwarfed by cosmically vast metal orbs. A thin strand of grass is barely visible along the base of the wall. The image tells us what Giuliana is up against, but it also tells us to keep our distance: she seeks a connection, but in another sense she wants to be left alone.