Shooting at the Moon

Shooting at the Moon is a short Super-8 punk/Remodernist film directed by Jesse Richards and Nicholas Watson, starring Matthew Quinn Martin (billed as Matthew Martin) as Buddy and Leila Laaraj as Lana, and features music by Billy Childish. It was shot in the summer of 1998 and its final cut was completed in 2003. The film premiered at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival in November 2003. In March 8, 2008 the film made its London premiere at Horse Hospital during their FLIXATION Underground Cinema event.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• super-8
• punk
• remodernist
• jesse
• richards
• nicholas
• watson

[bracksix]

[jesserichards]

Thanks for posting this, we kept meaning to.

This is the first edit from 1999, where we used pseudonyms for some reason, and a different song at the end credits- we exchanged Thee Headcoatees for Thee Headcoats Sect doing "Smile Now" in the final version. There were also some different sound edits in the final cut.

At some point we should get a clean copy of the final version up here, without all of this video pixelization from the transfer.

Again thanks for posting this!

[bracksix]

Hey jesserichards! Sorry I deleted your reply in my struggle with the youtube beast. I was trying to reply to thank you for making the piece above. I really enjoyed it and watched it a bunch of times. I hope to see more of your stuff in the future and I hope you get some donations to help you along. I'm penniless myself without a proper camera.

Anyway, the real reason I posted this video was so that I could embed it in the blog I share with my friends of films we watch. Check out my info.

[jesserichards]

@gaatraka hahahaha!!!! thanks! ;)

[gaatraka]

Very badly made, interesting plot, pity )):

Didn't have feeling of wabi-sabi or mono no aware.

You should make much better films guys!

[ryo96o]

I'm diggin' the hell out of this performance. I was reading Alan Watts, thinking about life, when he mentioned the concept of Yugen, which led me to Wabi Sabi, which thus led me to this great video. Look forward to seeing what else this leads to.

[karoloandria]

i seen all of that movies you posted, interesting, i hope to see more

luck for you

[jesserichards]

Hey karoloandria

if you want to see more like this one, I just put up a couple more films including "Sex and Lies" a punk film I made around the same time as Nic and I made this one.

They're on my profille here...

[karoloandria]

intense