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About Me

My name is Andre Seewood. I am a writer and filmmaker. I am the co-founder (with Chris Gore) and former editor of FILM THREAT Magazine. I've won several awards for my own independent films as well as the films I have co-written, shot, and edited for others. My new book "SCREENWRITING INTO FILM: Forgotten Methods & New Possibilities" IS AVAILABLE NOW on amazon.com Anyone who wants to have a personal voice in the cinema should read this book. Je m'appelle Andre- Je parle le francais. Je suis un ecrivain et un cineaste.MY FILMS: SEXUAL POLITICS IN THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM (1985) WASTELAND (1994) FLOWERS & TREES (1995)* THE VISIT (1996- editor/cinematography)* WHAT THE MAN WITH NO SHOES SAID TO THE MAN WITH NO FEET (2005)* THE SECRET (2005 - co-writer/editor/cinematographer) Now Playing on BET Short Film Showcase KLEANERS (2005 - co-writer/editor/cinematographer)*Indicates Award Winner .. Home | Browse | Search | Invite | Film | Mail | Blog | Favorites | Forum | Groups | Events | Videos | Music | Comedy | Classifieds

My Interests

Films, sociology, psychology, literature, music, art, politics, card games, the usual stuff...mspmb allowScriptAccess="never" enableJSURL="false" enableHREF="false" saveEmbedTags="true" src="http://lads.myspace.com/slides/slideshow_random.swf?u=1 08936118" enableHREF="false" saveEmbedTags="true" enableHREF="false" saveEmbedTags="true" enableJavaScript="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="426"

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who is passionate and 'for real' about what they do.

Music:

Bernard Herrmann, Prince, Dvorak, A Tribe Called Quest, Relative Ash, Ennio Morricone, GQ, Tupac, Snake River Conspiracy, Les Nubians, Krzystof Komeda, David Bowie, Eldar, Too Short, Sonny Rollins, Billy Stewart, Derrick May, CHIC, Ugly Duckling, Freddie Hubbard, T.I., Yellow Magic Orchestra, Cameo, Lupe Fiasco, Slave, Shelby Lynn, Confunkshun, Cybotron, Marshall Jefferson, The Doors, Rufus featuring Chaka Khan, M.C. Eiht, (early) Ice Cube, Simple Minds, Vangelis, M.C. Breed, Poor Righteous Teachers, Brand Nubian, The Roots, Common, Blackstar, Visage, Kano, Parliment/Funkedelic, Stacey Pullen, Gary Numan, The Smiths, The Isley Brothers, Jimi Hendrix, Lee Morgan, Outkast, Elvin Jones, Grant Green, M.C. Solar, Booba, 45 Scientific, Hi-Fi, Sister Sledge, Lynx, Jaco Pastorius, Herbie Hancock, Angelo Badelementi, Nino Rota, Ahmad Jamal, New Order, Gang of Four, Carl Craig, The Coup, Kevin Sanderson, Puddle of Mud, Nitzer Ebb, Skinny Puppy, Minnie Ripperton, Horace Silver, Popol Vol, Esthero, Al Green, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Spice 1, DB, N'dea Davenport, Method Man, Redman, Maxwell, Roy Ayers, N'Dambi, McCoy Tyner, Hubert Laws, Earth Wind & Fire, Front 242, Akil Baraka, Black Moon, The Wu-Tang Clan, D-Wynn, Gang Starr, Jurassic Five, Little Brother, Ming & FS, Ramsey Lewis, Hed (PE), Hamilton Bohannon, Juan Atkins, Teddy Pendergrass, Roberta Flack, Corinne Bailey Rae, Cree Summer, Vaughn Mason & Crew.

Movies:

(Listed by Director) Roman Polanski, Andrei Tarkovsky, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Robert Bresson, Catherine Briellat, Martin Scorsese, Robert Aldrich, Carl Franklin, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Ingmar Bergman, Kon Ichikawa, Paul Thomas Anderson, Michelangelo Antonioni, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alain Resnais, Jean-Luc Godard, The Coen Brothers, David Cronenberg, George Romero, Sam Peckinpah, Matthew Kassovitz, Stanley Kubrick, Jim Jarmusch, Dziga Vertov, Sergei Eisenstien, Fritz Lang, Douglas Sirk, Nicholas Ray, Bernardo Bertolucci, Yashiro Ozu, Gaspar Noe, Quentin Tarantino, David Lynch, Werner Herzog, Jacques Becker, Jean-Paul Melville, Micheal Mann, Robert Wise, Francis Coppola, Melvin Van Peeples, Vittorio DeSica, Frederico Fellini, Edward Dymitick, Stuart Rosenberg, Robert Rossen, Abraham Polonsky, Luchino Visconti, Nicholas Roeg, Otto Preminger, Luis Bunuel, John Frankenheimer, William Friedkin, Brian DePalma, Richard Linklater, Gus Van Sant, Billy Wilder, ...

Television:

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Books:

(By Author) Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Camus, Hermann Hesse, Phillip K. Dick, Donald Goines, Jim Thompson, Horace McCoy, Franz Kafka, Ralph Ellison, Dante, Virgil, Homer, Stanislaw Lem, Dostoyevsky, Shakespeare's Macbeth, Michel Foucault, Herbert Marcuse, G. Mosca, Antonio Gramsci, Gerhard Lenski, James Wilson, Kurt Vonnegut, Cornell West, Charles W. Mills, Alice Miller, James Q. Wilson, Alain Robbe-Grillet, John Dominic Crossan, Walter Mosley, Dante (John Ciardi, translation), Ivan Van Sertima, Henri Bergson, Peter Wollen, Ira Levin, Joseph Heller, Norman McAfee, Susan Sontag, Seymour Chatman, David A. Cook, John Dominic Crossan, Sam Rohdie, James Baldwin...

Heroes:

My Step-Dad and Mother.

My Blog

WHEN GOOD PEOPLE DO BAD THINGS

When good people do bad things its almost as if their minds are taken over by an evil spirit so that when the deed of wrong doing is done they have little memory of their actions. Memory is perh...
Posted by Gods Lonely Man on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 12:58:00 PST

NOTES OF THE LOST INDEPENDENT BLACK FILMMAKER 4

A few people have asked me why did I write a book on the cinema? Or more specifically, why did I write a book on screenwriting? The short answer is because I wanted to, but the short answe...
Posted by Gods Lonely Man on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 09:46:00 PST

NOTES OF THE LOST INDEPENDENT BLACK FILMMAKER 3

THREE Sometimes mediocrity disguises itself as professionalism I can remember it like it was yesterday. I was at one of my actresses' homes reviewing some 'dailies' or scenes we had just shot wh...
Posted by Gods Lonely Man on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 06:05:00 PST

NOTES OF THE LOST INDEPENDENT BLACK FILMMAKER 2

TWO Sound + Image = Cinema I finally had an opportunity to watch Jean-Luc Godard's LE PETIT SOLDAT the other day and I was struck by something that is most elusive in our appreciation of this great ci...
Posted by Gods Lonely Man on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:01:00 PST

NOTES OF THE LOST INDEPENDENT BLACK FILMMAKER 1

ONE "For want of truth, the public gets hooked on the false." - Robert Bresson My family had gathered in our basement to see my new completed film, WHAT THE MAN WITH NO SHOES SAID TO THE MAN WITH NO F...
Posted by Gods Lonely Man on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:42:00 PST

THE DEPARTED, A Martin Scorsese Film

In so many ways Martin Scorsese's THE DEPARTED is about the failure of men to live up to their ideals; whether those ideals are internally held by the individual or externally held by an institution.&...
Posted by Gods Lonely Man on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:49:00 PST