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My name is Joel.
Dzisiejsze marzenia to jutrzejsza terazniejszosc.
Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.
- Ingmar Bergman
I thought I would finally write a bit about myself on Myspace. Hard to encapsulate who you are into a brief few paragraphs... but I will try.
I am presently in Miles City, Montana directing and producing my first feature length film. A documentary that will cover the history of the city leading up to the present. With old rare video (featuring Gene Autry, among other celebrities), interviews with everyone from the Governor of Montana Brian Schweitzer, to a young boy who witnessed the filming of a big Hollywood movie in Miles City, 'Danger Lights', now 88 year old Hal Luke, and dozens more. This will be released in May of 2007, in time for Bucking Horse Sale weekend in Miles City, a very popular event featured there. Next projects are a choice between Bozeman Montana, Oxford Mississippi, and Guam. I work on a fair amount of short films weekly with friends, that are all on youtube.com, but you can see a select few of my videos on myspace, above.
On the side, I write a weekly movie review column for a few newspapers. I pick movies I like, and tell everyone why they should see them. Focusing more on movies that go under the radar, that many may enjoy, such as Broken Flowers.
In 2001 I went to Europe for the first time, living there for 6 months in a flat in Poland, travelling to see France as well. I have spent almost 2 months of every year in Europe since, seeing Ireland, England, Holland, Germany, Belgium, Slovakia, and Poland. I truly enjoy travelling, seeing new things, hearing new languages, eating new foods, meeting local people and emersing myself in the culture I am in. I am planning on going to Italy and Hawaii this summer. So many stories, experiences... from red carpet film screenings in Warsaw to walking the streets of Paris at 3 am... I love travel. That is why I made the statement about coming "there" soon to everyone, because honestly I intend to see everything on this great earth, except for the countries where I will be shot on sight. And even then I may venture there, with a video camera on my shoulder of course.
I have seen a lot of the USA as well - from Boston, New York City, and Washington DC, to Seattle and Los Angeles. I still have to see the South. Too bad New Orleans will be different by the time I arrive than it has ever been...
I started to become interested in film as a medium and direction for my life at age 12, when I first saw Raiders of the Lost Ark. That film changed me forever. It sparked an insatiable appetite for films of all genres, types, domestic or foreign, black and white or color. I can appreciate anything of quality. From a silent film to an arthouse flick, from the occasional "blockbuster" (when they actually get it right) to your veritable classics.
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So there I was at 12 years old, with a video camera, making western films and adventure movies. I made one called 'Indiana Jones and the Mummy's Curse', and my brother Josh played the mummy in the tomb (root cellar). He was all decked out in old cloth, and waiting inside. We had rigged a wooden door that would open at the touch of a "button", with someone standing up on top, moving the "door" at the right moment.
Another film was called 'Jesse's End', a western where I got shot down in a gun fight after robbing three banks. We lived out in the country at that time, so we used some of the long deserted old homestead cabins as the locations for the banks and sheriff's office. I still have these all on VHS somewhere... I will convert and put on youtube someday.
View from plane window above Europe
DUBLIN, Ireland - below
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Check out how dorky I look in my MC HAMMER pants, fantastic. I am posing with General Custer after he got massacred.
