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The new single from Canned Hamm is now my newest video.
Made this with the Hamms in the last couple of weeks. It was super fun!!!
Don’t forget to forward the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32J37AteH3M
And visit the YOUTUBE page to rate the video!!
This tune has to become a big gay dance club hit. I will renounce my membership in humanity if it doesn’t.
Weee!
To get the embed code for this video, click HERE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32J37AteH3M
-by Flick Harrison
Wreckless Eric reading from his book in Seattle.
I shot this for my upcoming W.E. concert video.
He sez: ‘I didn’t want to write a showbiz biography, the sort that chronicles the early struggle for fame, works through a successful middle period, and chronicles the downfall via a collection of lurid drug-related episodes and boring contractual details, finally fizzling out in a collection of lame anecdotes designed to demonstrate what a great guy I am now that life’s being good to me and I’m on the straight and narrow. WH Smith is already full of crap like that.’
Jesus Christ! I should have my head examined, but I just shot and directed a MUSIC VIDEO for Canned Hamm. The tune is Boyz Night Out (remix) and it’s sure to be a GAY DANCE CLUB HIT even though it’s all about straight boys on the town.
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Post production starts this week, though I’m still busy with Wreckless Eric, and new spots for the Element Agency (one for Amnesty International).
Weee! Haven’t gone out and directed something for a long-arse time. It was extremely fun!
-flick harrison
Flick Harrison’s short film trilogy, The Autonomy Complex, will have its first test screening at the Gumboot on the Sunshine Coast on Monday, November 20th, presented by Black Cat productions!
Presented by filmmaker Flick Harrison
The Autonomy Complex
~ a video trilogy ~
Flick Harrison’s video trilogy is a Canadian nationalist sitcom, an international socialist documentary, and a personal anarchist experiment. Together they form a sweeping picture of political complexity and the tricky balance between freedom and equality: a propaganda of confusion.
Freeworld is set in the year 2023 after Canada is annexed by the USA. Hiroko Doko, arrested for fleeing the draft, is sent into the wilderness with Hedwing, a determined slacker, to capture a loony robot.
Camels Turbans Guns is a documentary made in Pakistan in 1998, just after the mutual nuclear-test showdown with India. It explores the tribal, stone-hut lifestyle of the Baluchi nomads (embroiled today in an armed uprising). Still fiercely independent, they face an encroaching triple-threat of organized Islam, foreign aid and American military
interest.
Based on a short story by DM Fraser, Marie Tyrell is an experimental drama about an activist on death row, told through her lover’s songs, her teenage diaries, and her prison psych report. Also an interactive documentary, it allows an interrogation the politics and the film’s own production. With original footage of Noam Chomsky, Svend Robinson, Scott Ritter, the Woodwards squat, Larry Campbell, and Stephen Osbourne.
Hey folks! Check out this new theatre show, opening this week, which features my video design!
It’s about a Vietnam war dodger, now a leftist professor in Ottawa, who begins to doubt his pacifist convictions when his wife commits suicide and his daughter takes a dangerous posting as a middle-east diplomat.
(the most interesting part for me was cutting together Taliban propaganda video with Vietcong 16mm films).
(Two- for- one previews Thur. November 2 & Fri. November 3 at 8 pm)
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I was having too much fun / working too hard to take many pics but the closing Gala is finally over and we can all get on with our lives. The visual projections went super-well, I don’t think anyone guessed what the connection was (they were all credits from past closing gala films, isn’t that innnteresting?) but it gave the room that epic-ending feeling which was my purpose.
(BTW, as I type, I wish there was a way to make myspace playslists so I can listen continually without calling up that window and clicking all the darn time).
Anyway, here’s a few pics. This is me with Cathy Falkner, filmmaker David Vaisbord and Sheril Gelmon. Man, his hair is getting fabulous, like some movie star in a cartoon. Notice I took one more kick at the “I fuck the man” / Monkey Warfare t-shirt can.
So I had a blast projecting visuals at the Vancouver International Film Festival opening gala.
The party was at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Georgia in the main ballroom. This picture is Cathy Falkner with Sandy Buck. Sandy planned the whole event which is an insanely big job. Cathy was helping do the decoration on the night.
In the background you can see my visuals! They were on two giant odd-shaped fabric backdrops on either side of the band, plus one little projection on the escalator outside the ballroom. It was fantabulous, in my opinion.
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Hey folks! Sorry for the late notice of this but I only caught wind of it this hour!
My latest short underground political flick Marie Tyrell is screening at the Vancouver Public Library on Friday, Sept 22, as part of the Necessary Voices series. There’s little time to get word out. Lots of people worked very hard on it and the results are amazing… they should be seen by more people!
See pics, trailer, credits and info here.
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Triumph and Tragedy for Monkey Warfare, Reg Harkema’s new urban-geurilla comedy starring Don McKellar.
For some reason, the lawyers finally nixed my scene (see video below) from the film, in which I (in french) explain how to safely make a molotov cocktail so y’all won’t blow yerself up. Don’t worry, you don’t need to know french to get it. Hey, it’s fiction, right? Remember “The Great Train Robbery,” an early silent that was nearly banned for showing, in full detail, how to rob a train?
Monkey Warfare got into the Toronto International Film Festival, but it’s unclear whether my scene will show, even at festivals.
Forward and circulate, please!!
Thanks,
Flick Harrison
(click the bottom-right button on the vid to get full size)
molotov cocktail scene
Make sure to add “monkey warfare” as a myspace friend!
Wow!
I’m now editing a video I shot for / with Wreckless Eric in Seattle and Portland. It was an amazing little tourette on the West Coast. I caught the Vancouver show at Kier-La Janisse’s Big Smash music-on-film festival and just decided to boogie on down to two more shows, bringing my camera along.
It’ll be a concert doc with great raw energy. Fuck, it was great watching him pound through the tunes and belt out stories of the good old / bad old Stiff Records days, the trauma of big-money producers and crappy episodes in his life.
More to come.