Mamba Fever Pictures

SXSW!

DW — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:34:00 +0000

A very short film I directed, ANATINUS, is going to be premiering at this year’s South by Southwest Film Festival. It’s part of the Narrative Shorts 2 program, showing at the Alamo Drafthouse Lamar. There will be three screenings: Saturday, March 13 at 1:30pm, Monday, March 15 at 4pm, and Thursday, and March 18 at 2pm.

And here’s the official synopsis:

ANATINUS is a musical cinematographical voyage into the hazy early hours of the day. This film was shot in Greenpoint, Brooklyn with no budget, using a pocket-sized digital camera. No giant rubber ducks were harmed in the making of this picture. Music by LIGO.

Super 8

DW — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:41:38 +0000

My friend Don Ramirez has a new book available on Amazon called A Super 8 Filmmaker’s Journal. It’s a how-to guide for anyone who thinks they might be interested in shooting with the old super 8 movie cameras. The book gives a historical overview of the super 8 film format, recommends labs that still process the film, and is full of stories and arcane technical information. Most importantly, it features Don’s distinctive perspective on super 8 and filmmaking in general. An excerpt:

My Canon 1014 XL-S is my all time favorite Super 8 camera. I can testify to its cinematic strengths and reliability. At the time it was manufactured, it was meant for the professional media maker- uncompromising in design and quality… I bought mine for $200 in 2004 from an ex-filmmaker and ex-con who had just finished an 18 month sentence in a federal penitentiary. He had been busted growing something like 70 marijuana plants in his suburban home! A dangerous way of raising your next indie film’s budget.

I got to know Don when I worked as editor on his autobiographical film “Trailer Trash: A Film Journal” which went on to win awards at a bunch of film festivals a few years ago. Here’s a link to a nice review in the Baltimore City Paper.

photo-mutations

DW — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:05:38 +0000

The above image is from photo-mutations, a series of abstract digital stills that I started in 2005.
You can see more by clicking either the image or the link to the right…

6EQUJ5

DW — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:36:02 +0000

This is a music video I made for “6EQUJ5″ off the new album by Michael Winter,
available from Magnanimous Records.

new site

DW — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:02:02 +0000

Welcome to the new mambafever.com! The new design is formatted as a blog so that it can be updated much more frequently than in the past.