Naming a thing. Calling it into being.

Teaser concept for a thing not yet real.

Dutch Rall - Imagery Projected on Imaginary Walls

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Fifth Wall, the experimental dance film I created with the amazingly talented Omar Carrum, will have it's world premiere at The Cannes Film Festival SFC 2013.

Here is the official trailer...

- Fifth Wall - Cannes Court Metrage - Official Trailer

and a link to the official webpage:

http://www.fifthwall.info

Dutch Rall and Omar Carrum present - Fifth Wall -

coming summer 2013

Producers / Directors - Dutch Rall and Omar Carrum

Cinematographer / Editor - Dutch Rall

Interpreters - Omar Carrum, Javier Diaz, and Claudia Lavista

Choreography and Concept - Omar Carrum

Musica - Mario Lavista and Dutch Rall

Production Assistant - Rigoberto Del Valle
Painted Artwork - Sandra Pani

Location provided by Eloisa Gomez Rubio

Special Thanks - The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Jeni Rall, Andee Scott, Mike Dow.

a Tripping the Light Fantastic production

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Power Station's take on 'Bang a Gong' was the first bass line I ever sat down and tried to figure out. And Arcadia's 'Missing' was the first music video I attempted to create with a borrowed Super8, making my friend Michael put on loads of eyeshadow and lipgloss and somehow talking Gini M. into wearing pretty much nothing at all in the cold attack of our bizarre, highschool church.

So to say that I am excited to post the link to the debut of an official music video which I got to co-create for a Duran Duran art side project by Nick and Warren that debuts on Paper Magazine and is being commemorated by a limited edition Vinyl Factory 'Euphoria' set is pretty much the understatement of 2013.

'Euphoria' debuts on Paper Magazine - TV Mania

And they let me do a video remix... in which I snuck in some new vocals of my own... who knows when I'll get to sing with Duran Duran again?!?!?! I owe Jean Renard a cupcake.

This is some really wonderful experimental dance work by filmmaker Michael Langan.

Choros from Michael Langan on Vimeo.

Settling for a moment in San Francisco to rethink and revise.



View from the project studio.



The end of a climb.

Big smile on this inauguration day.

     Finishing up a new project for Guggenheim fellow Omar Currum which we're going to call 'Fifth Wall'... an experimental long-form short that is based around Omar's concept and choreography. With compositions by Mario Lavista (another Guggenheim alum) and shot in the unrelenting heat of Mazatlan. This one is a true labor of love.

It will be the first piece for a larger project I'm going to call 'Tripping the light Fantastic' which will be centered around movement, beauty and perception. Here is a still of dancer Rivi Madison for something therein for later this spring.

Babystep. Sleep. Parallel.

An endless amount of images in the long-tail cloud waiting to be remixed... I think this is me trying to remind myself to face and lean in to what is coming. To stand my ground.

'Unturned' by Dutch Rall

"...language enables us to distance ourselves from the world. It helps us to withdraw from what is physically present, and can enable us to break down experience, whether present or not, into bits we can manipulate. To some degree, we can put experiences into order as we wish. There is an alienating element to this process. Language makes the world a colder, darker and trickier place. So language brings with it a new form of consciousness. Before Job people felt that everything that happened to them was meant to happen to them, that there was a divine purpose behind everything. Language enabled Job to step back and notice inconsistencies... that life is unfair. What saved Job from God's rebuke to this understanding was that he had that sense we all have when we awake from a wonderful dream, when we try to bring it back but cannot. He was aware that the range of human experience was in some way diminishing. In the apocryphal Testament of Job, he is rewarded for being conscious of what he did not know..." - Mark Booth

The official video for 'This Train' which I shot some time ago premiers on NME this week.
Shot with the 5Dmk2 before the 23.976 update. Avid did a fairly good job of conversion.
I think Jean's beauty light is a thing to behold. And it was very sweet and generous of Andrea Brook to allow us to use the Earth Harp for the set. And Lynch allowing me to use outtakes from a lost scene from Inland Empire as abstracts was the icing on the cake.

Director, Editor, Photographer - Dutch Rall

Additional photography - David Lynch

Lighting Director - Jean Renard with Jason Amato

Special thanks - Jean Renard, Andrea Brook, Clare Surgeson, Kevin Cochran, Julia Walker, J Scott G, Duane Albrect, Erin Boubel and Dean Hurley.This Train - written by David Lynch, John Neff and Chrysta Bell

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My shadow, about to perform deep underground in Paris at some club called Silencio designed by some fabulous American filmmaker named David Lynch.

Amsterdam so cold and beautiful.

Mela Lee - Los Angeles - December 12, 2011

photo: Dutch Rall

Thanks to Dean Hurley for turning me on the the best piece of something I have heard in forever.

I am beginning to believe that people can change for the better.

Maybe even me.

KA is an amazing spirit and a wonderful artist.

The above is work for a live presentation of Lynch material.

I am in love with this:

Above is a concept design I'm working with, playing off of key elements by designer Todd Gallopo for the vinyl version of Chrysta Bell's project with David Lynch called 'This Train'. Below is the video I've made for the lead track 'Real Love'.



"...flirts with love, violence and delusion in equal measure. The devastatingly sexy video is directed by Dutch Rall, who seems to be channeling Inland Empire’s surrealistic, after-hours LA wasteland." - PIERREISM

photo: dutch rall

Infinity Mirror

photo: dutch rall

For whatever reason, I like the reminder of these reflected clouds that I caught... that they will be here long after these building's facades crumble back into sand (even though this moment and their forms will never happen again).

They seem smugly cheerful about the fact somehow. Good for them.

Bring me deeper understanding...

Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Unbelievable.

Getting better as she goes.

Optimistic.

Changing her tune.


photo: Ellen Von Unwerth

almost there. stay on target.

merge data with data

There are hundreds of paths up the mountain, all leading in the same direction, so it doesn’t matter which path you take. The only one wasting time is the one who runs around and around the mountain, telling everyone that his or her path is wrong.

— Hindu teaching (taken from Shane's blog)

Alexander McQueen.

Ensemble, VOSS, spring/summer 2001

Savage Beauty at the Met. Thru July 31st.

http://blog.metmuseum.org/alexandermcqueen

Yesterday was the first real hint of summer in Austin. That moment when one remembers..."oh... yes... I would rather die a slow horrible death than be here in August."

And now (Sunday morning) some very talented musicians down the street are butchering Stevie Wonder... loudly and with enough gusto to try and get everyone to come a-runnin towards the light that shines so brightly in our "Live Music Capital of the World!!!"

So. You know. Maybe one smoke and then time to fly.

Dietrich, Seiff and Scarlett are game.

3 notes to self. 1st, 5th and 7th in C min.

‎"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." - Bill S.



If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

- Kipling

...trying to get out of the night.

Sir Puppy McPuppenstien is officially ready to receive your overflowing adoration.

Simple is the complicated pursuit of what’s important. - mono-1.com

Playing a short set of originals with guitarist and friend John Peacock at the Granada Theatre in Dallas opening for TU (King Crimson's Pat Mastelotto and Trey Gunn).

A big birthday needs a big sky.

West Texas shot by Dutch Rall April 22, 2011

I think someone switched the Armageddon button on the moon over Austin.

Moon orbiting the Frost Bank Tower in Austin, Texas.

And now... some perspective courtesy photographer Terje Sorgjerd.

(insert sound of boisterous hand clapping)

portraits

As a teenager, I skipped a lot of school (don't do this kids) and seemed always to end up at The Kimbell... which luckily happened(s) to be one of the most beautiful structures on the planet.

A permanent, free exhibit. A book store and coffee shop before Barnes and Noble became the thing. If anyone was curious as to why I was there at least twice a week, they never bothered to ask or run me off. I'd like to think the security guys figured that I was safe. Leave the lanky loner kid be.

I would stare at this piece by Courbet for literally hours on end. Hours. It is burned into my DNA. I close my eyes and can see it as if it's right in front of me. I'm not certain why exactly it was this particular painting that spoke to lost, adolescent me... or that if I was finally able to figure it out... that it would even posses an agreed-upon word to describe it.

Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) Portrait of H.J. van Wisselingh

Certainly, it's been what I continue to chase visually over and over again, despite the subject, medium, technology or situation.

I like to imagine that it's something light can't contain - or refract thru - or reflect off of.

That it's that thing behind the eyes that tells a whole story without saying a word.

Maybe.

Tiffany Lonsdale and Farah White in 'This is a Love Story' photo by Dutch Rall

Here is a better director than I working out his portrait process.

It seems he may have had some interesting demons to chase.

Ryan and Amelia pretending to love the cinematographer.

Here's Ryan as he stares into the abyss of unedited footage -

Organizing old hard drives... a favorite of model Gael Griffin -

I'm in Dallas for two weeks working as the cinematographer for my friend Ryan Harper Gray's indie film. Lenses, batteries, monitors, cables, tripods... all dressed up ready to go.

I've got a Pro Tools rig set-up in the hotel so that at night I'll be able to play with Black Book Angel music. Editing the best musicians on the planet in a crappy room on the highway is a good thing.

Here's something I shot and recorded for fun:

Started off in the wrong key and just kept going.

Nettie is a wonderfully cool artist / spirit from New Orleans.