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Marvelous Movie Mondays: Modern Jesus

EPFC | December 18th, 2019

MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!
guest curator: Doug Klinger

theme: hybrid music video/documentaries

Director AG Rojas traveled to 15 states in 20 days to make the 2013 music video for “Modern Jesus” by Portugal. The Man. With a team that included cinematographer Michael Ragen and producers Anna Rau and Corbett Jones, AG used a documentary style approach to find incredible people and locations to highlight in this video, while subtly weaving in performance elements to help connect everything to the song. The end result is a rich portrait of America, beautiful but flawed, edited in a way that is thought provoking without being exploitative. https://vimeo.com/67421916

You’re The Best Thing About Me

EPFC | December 11th, 2019

MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!
guest curator: Doug Klinger

theme: hybrid music video/documentaries

Director Tatia Pilieva’s 2017 video for “You’re The Best Thing About Me” by U2 is a hybrid music video/documentary about love and separation. The film profiles a newlywed military couple, high school sweethearts, a Syrian refugee family in Greece, and a young couple from Mexico City – all in the final 24 hours before one partner in each couple has to leave. The unbelievable access Tatia and her team were able to gain for this film, and the feat of organization it must have taken in order to pull it all off, deserves to be celebrated. But what really makes this film special is Tatia’s ability to tell rich and authentic stories, while keeping them grounded, despite using them in a music video for one of the biggest bands of all time. She creates something that feels both global and intimate, a spirit can be found it a lot of U2’s music. Tatia effectively taps into the feeling of love and loss that all of these people are feeling, and is able to connect them all together through their parallel experiences. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x7Kd9_CGn8&feature=emb_logo