🏛️ Bulletin: Jonatan Schwenk, The Romantix, Martin Scorsese...

CREATIVE SHORTS

Jonatan Schwenk directs ‘Zoon’.

In the dark swamps of a nocturnal forest, a group of gleaming axolotls are encountered by a larger group of lustful two-legged forest-dwellers.

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• Meet the Artist: Jonatan Schwenk on "Zoon" YouTube →

Screened at numerous film festivals including Sundance, Palm Springs International ShortFest, and Telluride.

jonatan-schwenk.com →
@jonatanschwenk →

CREATIVE SHORTS

The Romantix direct ‘Brown Brit’.

Following a woman’s journey from an arranged marriage in 1987 India to her new life on a North London council estate raising three children.

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• The Romantix Transform Family Story of Resilience into Powerful Short Film LBB →

Narrated by Deepica Stephen.

@the.romantix →

CAMPAIGNS

Martin Scorsese directs ‘Action’ for Chanel.

Starring Timothée Chalamet.

🔗 directorslibrary.com/action-chanel/ →

• Timothée Chalamet Leads Martin Scorsese’s Chanel Ad IndieWire →

• Timothée Chalamet x Martin Scorsese The Fall →

@martinscorsese_ →

Reading Room

For May, we have selected ‘Geological Filmmaking’ by SASHA LITVINTSEVA — Geological Filmmaking develops a new genre of writing rooted in a reciprocity between the practice of making films and the theoretical study of the relations they participate in.

Each month we spotlight a new or excellent reading, and offer our readers a chance to win a copy in a simple draw:

Footnotes

The Colours Of Luca Guadagnino
YouTube →

At Cannes, Inspiration From Ancient Romans and Modern Women
The New York Times →

Michel Gondry and Pharrell Williams Project
Glitter & Deadline →

Vimeo Curators Meghan Oretsky and Ina Pira Talk Staff Picks
The Making Of →

Frank Lebon photographs the blood that binds us
Plaster Magazine →

Rungano Nyoni talks uncovering family secrets and feeling the pressure with her second film ‘On Becoming A Guinea Fowl’
Screen Daily →

In Conversation: Harmony Korine and Catherine Taft
Hauser & Wirth →

My Life, a Screenplay: the unpublished letters of François Truffaut
Festival de Cannes →

Nicole Kidman on making ‘Birth’
Los Angeles Times →

Creative Director Anthony Vaccarello Talks Making Movies
Vogue →

A guide to Soi Cheang, enfant terrible of contemporary Hong Kong cinema
Dazed →

Scarlett Johansson’s OpenAI Feud Makes Her an Uncanny Folk Hero
Wired →

Paris, Texas restored 40 years after winning the Palme d’or
Festival de Cannes →

David Cronenberg on the ‘Promise and Threat’ of AI in Filmmaking
Variety →

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