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Gabriella, Hungry Artist DVD Media

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About Me

My name is Gabriella Bregman, I'm an independent filmmaker-producer. I wrote and directed a digital feature “SHORT DAY” (available on http://www.IndieFlix.com ), a meditation on the trappings of compromise, (part of a film trilogy project "SCENES OF IDOLATRY AND RESENTMENT" chronicling an artist's creative process). My film site: http://www.HungryArtistDVDMedia.com covers the DV Trilogy, plus a '01 John Cassavetes Retrospective I produced, as well as inspirational essays about what I believe the true purpose of an artist is; viewing power structures philosophically it basically discusses artistic integrity vs. material desperation. "PEOPLE KILL THEMSELVES BECAUSE OF SOCIETY'S INABILITY TO EDUCATE, IN TERMS OF LOVE ANY FURTHER THAN A GIVEN POINT. NOBODY IN THIS WORLD SEEMS TO BE ABLE TO LOVE BEYOND A CERTAIN POINT, THEN THEY BECOME EMOTIONALLY TIRED OF IT, OR BORED OR HURT. THEY CHANGE, AND THEIR LOVE DOESN'T TRANSCEND CERTAIN OBSTACLES. FOR SOMEBODY WHO IS VERY SENSITIVE AND IDEALISTIC, AS WE ALL START OUT TO BE, IT BECOMES A DRAMATIC EXPERIENCE. YOU CAN EITHER MAKE THAT BRIDGE OR NOT AND WE ARE GOING TO MAKE THIS PICTURE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE POSSIBLY LOST, AND TRY TO POINT OUT THE REASONS FOR IT" JOHN CASSAVETES, from Ray Carney's "The Adventure of Insecurity".http://www.YouTube.com/ArtistDVDMedia

My Interests

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I'd like to meet:

ACTORS, "The mistakes that you make in your own life, in your own personality, are assets on the film. So if I can just convince somebody not to clean themselves up, and not to be someone that they're not, and just be what they are in given circumstances, that's all that acting is to me, and I don't think it's very difficult. Only when the lines go against you, it's impossible for you to say them. Or that the character's inconsistent. Or that it's an impossible circumstance where everybody's so hostile that you don't feel like acting" John Cassavetes,WRITERS, "Shame seems to be the key to repression in writing as well as psychological malady. If you don't stick to your first thought, and the words the thought brought, what's the sense of foistering your little lies on others. ... Drawing a breath and blowing a phrase til running out of breath, and the statement's been made. That's how I separate my sentences, as breath separations of the mind." Jack Kerouac,PHILOSOPHERS, Two ways of existence are competing for 'the spirit of mankind' - having and being: "The having mode looks to things and material possessions and is based on aggression and greed. The being mode is rooted in love and is concerned with shared experience and productive activity" Erich Fromm, "To Have or to Be",ENTREPRENEURS, "The pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled, entrepreneurs are masters at solving problems, converting those problems into valuable intellectual property, then leveraging the intellectual property into a business. They are masters at using other people's money and other people's resources. ... It is creation that energizes an entrepreneur... It is the creation part that provides maximum leverage and sometimes essentially infinite return on investment." Howard H. Stevenson.http://www.HungryArtistDVDMedia.com http://www.MySpace.com/IdolatryandResentmentDVD

Music:

John Coltrane, Nina Simone, Dexter Gordon, Charlie Parker, Chet Baker, Janis Joplin, Bob Marley, John Lennon, U2, Chris Cornell, Fiona Apple, Annie Lennox.

Movies:

http://www.MySpace.com/IdolatryandResentmentDVD DVD "Short Day" (IndieFlix.com)"A theatre returned to its highest and sole significant function as a Temple where the religion of a poetical interpretation and symbolical celebration of life is communicated to human beings, starved in spirit by their soul-stifling daily struggle to exist as masks among the masks of the living" EUGENE O'NEILL.John Cassavetes' A Woman Under the Influence, Faces, Love Streams, Husbands, Opening Night, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Shadows, Minnie and Moskowitz, Elaine May's Mikey and Nicky. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, A Place in the Sun, On the Waterfront, Judgment in Nuremberg, East of Eden, Rocco and his Brothers, Nights of Cabiria, Hunger, The Little Fugitive (Morris Engel), The Connection (Shirley Clarke) Umberto D., Terminal Station, L' Amore (Anna Magnani), Accattone(Pasolini), The Conformist, Paris Texas, The China Syndrome, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Dog Day Afternoon, Midnight Express, The Misfits, Henry and June, Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean (Altman), Character (Dutch), American Heart, Another Woman (Woody Allen), The Elephant Man.

Television:

http://www.YouTube.com/ArtistDVDMedia.Docs. mainly. "Definitions can only be the soundly meaningful at the end of an inquiry rather than at the beginning of one. It is the tested evidence that establishes its validity. It is by experiment, that a scientist comes to believe in proof without certainty, whereas others believe in certainty without proof. “Education”, isn’t education at all, but instruction; a training by rote in what to think, not in how to think, (and so seemingly easier). Plato said that the unexamined life was not worth living" Ashley Montagu (Psychologist & writer "The Elephant Man")

Books:

"I write down without thought, I take down dictation, as it were. If there are flaws and contradictions they iron themselves out eventually. Writing is not a game played according to rules, it is a compulsive and delectable thing. Writing is its' own reward. I didn't write a piece of fiction. I wrote an autobiographical document, a human book" HENRY MILLER. Jack Kerouac's Visions of Cody, The Subterraneans, Hemingway's The Garden of Eden, Henry Miller's The Rosy Crucifixion, Pasolini's Roman Poems, Ray Carney's Cassavetes on Cassavetes, Krishnamurti's On Relationship, Erich Fromm's The Art of Loving, Escape from Freedom, Ayn Rand's The Virtue of Selfishness, Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night, Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet.

Heroes:

"The sincere man accepts nothing which he cannot feel is right for him; he verifies everything through individual thinking" Vernon Howard, SuperWisdom.com http://www.HungryArtistDVDMedia.com

My Blog

PRESS RELEASE "SHORT DAY" DVD, INDIEFLIX.COM

  Press Release Gabriella Bregman HungryArtistDVDMedia.com                        &nbs...
Posted by Gabriella, Hungry Artist DVD Media on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 06:35:00 PST

DVD "Short Day" Now on IndieFlix.com, More Info. Soon!

Home > Drama > Biography > Short Day, (Scenes of Idolatry and Resentment) $9.95   Clip »   A meditation on the trappings of compromise, and the emotional dynamics of resentment...
Posted by Gabriella, Hungry Artist DVD Media on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 01:31:00 PST

LA Weekly interview Gena Rowlands

      LA WEEKLY August 31  September 6, 2001       FILM   Mrs. Cassavetes A visit with Gena Rowlands By Chuck Wilson     THE JOHN CASSAVET...
Posted by Gabriella, Hungry Artist DVD Media on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 02:46:00 PST

Cassavetes on Cassavetes

CASSAVETES IN HIS OWN WORDS, page from HungryArtistDVDMedia.com   Check the site also for an exclusive interview with John Cassavetes cameraman Michael Ferris, by Mike Plante CineMad Magazi...
Posted by Gabriella, Hungry Artist DVD Media on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 11:23:00 PST

New MySpaceFilm: MySpace.com/IdolatryandResentmentDVD

MySpace.com/IdolatryandResentmentDVD This is Gabriella, MySpace.com/HungryArtistDVDMedia:I now have a MySpaceFilm for promotion, information and vlogs on my Script and DVD Trilogy "SCENES OF IDOLA...
Posted by Gabriella, Hungry Artist DVD Media on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 04:33:00 PST

Gena Rowlands intervied by Gary Oldman for my Cassavetes Retrospective

Venice Magazine September 2001        photography Jesse HillGENA ROWLANDS TALKS TO GARY OLDMANABOUT LIFE WITH JOHN CASSAVETESFROM THE BEGINNING: PART I[Editor's No...
Posted by Gabriella, Hungry Artist DVD Media on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 05:30:00 PST

Another Inspirational Quote: Erich Fromm on Spontaneity.

From: Escape from Freedom, by Erich Fromm.We approach here one of the most difficult problems of psychology: the problem of spontaneity. An attempt to discuss this problem adequately would require ano...
Posted by Gabriella, Hungry Artist DVD Media on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 04:21:00 PST

Inspirational Quote: John Cassavetes on Inner Feelings.

Cassavetes in his Own Words:"You have to fight every day to stop censoring yourself, and you never have anyone else to blame when you do. What happens to artists is that it's not that somebody's stand...
Posted by Gabriella, Hungry Artist DVD Media on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 04:18:00 PST

FAVORITES Page as appears on Web (Films, Books)

--> -->   Films,(and not necessarily in this order):   --> --> Anything directed by John Cassavetes; A Woman Under the Influence, Love Streams, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Fa...
Posted by Gabriella, Hungry Artist DVD Media on Wed, 31 May 2006 01:10:00 PST

Some inspiration, & an Update!

From Gabriella Bregman, HungryArtistDVDMedia.comJUST AN UPDATE, AND SOME INSPIRATIONAL WORDS:Update;I do all my work on public computers (libraries, mostly without audio as well), and was just told my...
Posted by Gabriella, Hungry Artist DVD Media on Sat, 22 Jul 2006 04:13:00 PST