completion
Over three years in the making, the feature road-trip doc I have been producing with my dad, pilgrIMAGE, is finally finished! It’s premiering at IDFA this week in Amsterdam, so if you happen to be in the neighbourhood, check it out. I unfortunately won’t be able to make it, as I’m trying to be ecologically responsible and avoid air travel, but Peter Wintonick will be there to answer any questions and/or have a beer with you.
November 26th, 2008 at 6:46 am
[...] On the Mira Burt-Wintonick front, here’s something she’s been doing: In this roadmovie about movies, veteran documentary filmmaker Peter Wintonick takes a film-trip across the world with Mira, his 20-year-old media-making daughter. They journey through film history and media’s future, questioning how different generations view, use or make their own film, images, sound and media. From Fellini’s hometown in Italy to Nuremberg where Leni Riefenstahl shot Triumph of the Will; from Chaplin’s grave to Jean-Luc Godard’s Swiss village; from blogging theorists in Vienna to next media artists at the Venice Biennale. pilgrIMAGE playfully mixes contemporary and historical cinematic sites with personal encounters and film-life lessons. pilgrIMAGE is a trans-generational meditation on film and media. Mixing film clips with critical musings, equal parts verité film-journal, digital-diary and ciné-blog, the filmmakers meet several significant film ‘pilgrims’ and media practitioners along their way. Through a series of father-daughter dialogues, the goal is to transfer a bit of crazy wisdom between generations. Between a distinguished filmmaker father from cinema’s Generation Y (as in Why?) to a daughter of our current next-wave, now-media Generation D (as in Digital) era. [...]
January 10th, 2009 at 2:20 am
Hi Mira, I make it a practice to Google CBC personalities with interesting hyphenated names and you are second only to Dagmar Kaffanke-Nunn. I thought I heard Jonathan saying Mira Bergman-Tonic, so it took me a few tries to get your website.
It’s a really nice website. Poetic comes to mind.
I’m pleased to see the link to the Wiretap pod and the soundfiles.
Take care,
Nick
January 12th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Thanks, Nick. And sorry it was so challenging tracking me down… maybe I should just drop my last name like Cher and Madonna.
May 25th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Dear Mira.
I saw pilgrIMAGE at the Greek Documentary Festival. Its a perfect work.
When the film ended, at the same night i started making some digital works.
You said so strong “make art everytime ” that i cold not put it out of my mind.
The resaults are some works that makes me think and feels creative and a start of a new blog.
pilgrIMAGE made me find some time not to delete anything, just to restart some thing inside.
… well, its better go for sleep.:)
regards from thessaloniki
george
May 27th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
thanks, george! while I’m hardly convinced that pilgrIMAGE is anywhere near a “perfect work”, it’s really sweet of you to say. glad to hear you’re feeling creative and gutsy enough to share it.
cheers from montreal.