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Broken Pencil reviews my zine Zero for Conduct!

At last! A review of my zine in Broken Pencil! I guess I gave up after about a year of poking through BP (which is always worthwhile, narcissistic satisfaction or no). And then I came up in a google alert… today. A year after the review went up online. I guess google doesn’t like its old friend BP enough to drop by for a robot crawl on a reasonable basis.

Then again, the zine world works at its own pace, doesn’t it?  Like, ZFC is over a year and a half old, and no second issue.

Anyway, someone liked the zine.  I guess I should make another one…

My favourite reaction, when I tell people I’ve got a zine, is when they say, “Send me a link!” and I say “What link?  It’s a hardcopy.  As in, print.”  And they boggle a little.  Now it’s up in pdf on the web, so I guess that’s moot at this point.

You can buy the zine or download it HERE.

-Flick Harrison

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“The 40,000” Vietnam doc online

Barry Levy in Spook

I used to spend a lot of time doing behind-the-scenes documentaries on feature films.  Since I was working mostly for low-budget independents, the BTS stuff often dropped off the priority list – no one actually used the footage after I handed them the tapes.

But there’s a notable exception: Barry Levy’s The 40,000, which is a full-length documentary produced with footage I shot for his feature film Spook.  It’s about the 40,000 Canadians who served in Vietnam, either by being drafted for their dual citizenship (!) or by volunteering.  Spook is the dramatized version, and The 40,000 is the doc which illuminates the film.

I was fascinated while shooting, and now I’m transported back to that time by seeing the doc.  The real vietnam vet who narrates much of the doc has had his identity obscured to protect him.

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Futuristi Promo Video

Here’s a video promo I made several months ago for FUTURISTI, Bella Luna’s re-mount of the 1920’s Italian futursit scripts.

It’s a wacky, unpredictable and absurd piece – but don’t let me go on talking, you should watch it yourself…

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Passionflake – New Video for The Strange Magic

I haven’t posted this yet, so with their new CD release it’s probably a good time.

Music Video for The Strange Magic, from their new album “Songs to Burn.”

Shot at the Railway Club and Lamplighter Pub in Vancouver. The amazing archival footage comes from Archive.org.

Check them out at:

http://www.myspace.com/theradiowaves

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The Glass Box by Theatre Terrific

Last night I had the chance to shoot Theatre Terrific‘s production of The Glass Box, a play about sexuality and disability.  It’s a mind-blowing show, mostly because of the honesty of the content, and the fact that its such an unusual and fascinating topic.

VANCOUVER, BC: Theatre Terrific is pleased to present its new work, The Glass Box, a voyeuristic glimpse into the secret lives of people and their passions. Fresh from its debut in Victoria, The Glass Box opens in Vancouver Feb 18 – 28.

The Glass Box follows a 54-year-old wife and mother, a 23-year-old woman living with quadriplegia and a 32-year-old man with Down Syndrome who find themselves trapped in off-beat talk show. They are given the chance to be the iconic figure of their fantasies. The icons answer dangerous questions with hilarious abandon, as Cleopatra unrolls from her carpet, Sophia Loren sways through her famous striptease and Brad Pit lands the big fish.

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VanKino open-mic film screenings

n43312898967_399It’s nice to see a few regular film screening events pop up in Vancouver lately.  This one is the first Sunday of every month at 1181 Davie Street, otherwise known as Tight Lounge.

This could be interesting. After spotting it on Craigslist, then followed to facebook and finally to the international website, I have NO IDEA hat to make of them.  Sounds like a cool network: there are “cells” in various cities around the world.
Here’s the posting:

VanKino

“Kino” is the Greek word for “movement” and means “film” or “the cinema” in Russian, German and other languages. Born in Montréal in 1998, Kino began as a challenge, made by founding filmmaker Christian Laurence to his friends, to make one short film per month until the year 2000. However, at the end of this period no one wanted to stop and, in fact, Kino had formed into a movement that encouraged filmmakers in groups scattered across Montréal and Europe to “do well with nothing; do even better with a little,” and—most importantly—to “do it right now!”

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Sold on Open Office.org

penguin open office

That’s a figure of speech, of course, because Open Office is the FREE alternative to Microsoft Office.  I’ve been toying with it in Ubuntu on my XO laptop, and then installed it on my Mac G5 once I realized that X11 (the interface for Linux apps) came pre-installed on OSX 10.5.  I like that O.O. opens .doc and excel files, so I’ve been trying to migrate all my office tasks onto Open Office.

But two factors that I discovered today sold me ultimately on it, despite some conversion troubles.*

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