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MICHAEL H SHAMBERG
(1952-2014) FILMOGRAPHY
Collaborations
with Lawrence Weiner (1976 US video 39:00min color) Producer : The Kitchen, Fifi Corday Productions, Moved Pictures Director of Photography : Carlota Schoolman, Michael H. Shamberg Players : Robert Stearns, Steve Bluter, Suzanne Harris, Norman Fisher, Ann-Sargent Wooster, Madeleine Burnside Melodic noise : a tribe in/of New Guinea voices AZW Bentley, Lawrence Weiner Exhibition : “With Relation To
The Various Manners Of Use” The Kitchen, New York City, 1976. Producer : Moved Pictures & Fifi Corday Productions Director of Photography : Michael H. Shamberg Music : Marzette Watts Players : Martine Rapin, Cynthia Pattison, Mike Grotto, P. Hoenderdos, D. Kaplan, Susan Davis, Ms. Tacks/Takes Voices : AZW Bentley, Lawrence Weiner. FOR EXAMPLE DECORATED Producer : Moved Pictures Assistant Director : Michael H. Shamberg Prod.consultant : Carlota Schoolman Director of Photography : Michael H. Shamberg Audio : I.E. DECORATED Players : Peter Gordon, Britta Le Va, James
Sarkis. Producer : Moved Pictures Cinematographer : Michael Oblowitz ed Kathryn Bigelow, Gerrit Hilhorst Music : Peter Gordon w/ David van Tieghem Players : Teta Gorgoni, Rosemary Hochschild,
Britta Le Va, Michael H. Shamberg, Kirsten Vibeke Thueson. Producer : Moved Pictures Executive Producer/Sound Consultant : Michael H. Shamberg Cinematographer : Michael Oblowitz ed/s Skip Lievsay Players : Coosje van Bruggen, Michael Oblowitz, AZW Bentley, Michael H. Shamberg, Lala Oryshkevich, Lawrence Weiner, Leslie Schiff, Kirsten Vibeke Thueson, Rosemary Hochschild, Susan Davis.
VIDEO CLIPS
As Producer for New Order: THE PERFECT KISS (New Order) 1985 Directed by Jonathan Demme Director of Photography Henri Alekan
CONFUSION (New Order/Arthur Baker) 1987 Directed by Charles Sturridge Director of Photography Ed Lachman Music Producer Arthur Baker
BIZARRE LOVE TRIANGLE (New Order) 1987 Directed by Robert Longo Edited by Gretchen Bender Director of Photography Richard Dallet Computer Graphics Amber Denker
TRUE FAITH (New Order/Stephen Hague) 1987 Directed by Philippe Découflé Music Producer Stephen Hague
TOUCHED BY THE HAND OF GOD (New Order) 1987 Directed by Kathryn Bigelow Director of Photography Roger Deakins Starring Bill Paxton
BLUE MONDAY ’88 (New Order) 1988 Directed by Robert Breer & William Wegman Edited by Laura Israel
FINE TIME (New Order) 1989 Directed by Richard Heslop
ROUND & ROUND (New Order) 1989 Directed by Paula Greif Produced by Elizabeth Bailey Executive Producer Michael H. Shamberg
RUN (New Order/John Denver) 1989 Directed by Robert Frank Director of Photography R. Frank & Richard Dallet Edited by Laura Israel Starring David Warillow
REGRET (New Order/Stephen Hague) 1993 Directed by Peter Care Director of Photography Tom Richmond & Salvatore Totino Edited by Robert Duffy Produced by Larry Perel Executive Producer Michael H. Shamberg
WORLD (New Order) 1993 Directed by Baillie Walsh Director of Photography John Mathesson Produced by Howie Nicol & Anita Staines Executive Producer Michael H. Shamberg
1963 (New Order/Stephen Hague) 1994 Directed by Gina Birch Starring Jane Horrocks
CRYSTAL (New Order) 2001 Directed by Johan Renck Produced by Nicola Doring Executive Producer Michael H. Shamberg
CEREMONY (Joy Division) 2005 Directed by Yu Likwai Director of Photography Yu Likwai Starring Chow Chi Sang
As Producer for Electronic GETTING AWAY WITH IT 1989 Directed by Chris Marker
As Producer for Throwing Muses COUNTING BACKWARDS 1991 Directed by Katherine Dieckmann
As Producer For R.E.M. SHINY HAPPY PEOPLE 1991 DIrected by Katherine Dieckmann
As Producer for The B-52’s REVOLUTION EARTH 1992 Directed by James Herbert
As Producer for Kristen Hersh & Michael Stipe YOUR GHOST 1994 Directed by Katherine Dieckmann
As Producer for Patti Smith : SUMMER CANNIBAL (Patti Smith/Fred “Sonic” Smith) 1996 Directed by Robert Frank
As Director : TRIBECA with A CERTAIN RATIO 1981 Cinematographer : Michael Oblowitz
TARAS SHEVCHENKO Live at the Ukranian National Home, NYC 1981 Temptation (New Order) 2005 Produced and Directed by Michael H. Shamberg
TEMPTATION (New Order) 2005 A video by Victoria Bergsman and Michael H. Shamberg “The Temptation of Victoria” Written by Victoria Bergsman Image by Irina Lubtchansky Starring Victoria Bergsman GONE GONE GONE “In 2007 i was in Paris with the idea of shooting a scene at one of he oldest walls in Paris near the Cité Internationale. I directed Teresa Eggars and had no idea what I would do with it. When the last Notwist CD came out GONE GONE GONE came to mind. It was beautiful and short. My only edits were the open and end, while the camera edits worked.”—Director - Michael H Shamberg
FILMS SALVATION! 1987 I forgot my first feature as a co-producer with director Beth B, and that is when i met Ned Richardson who was a friend with the writer and became the executive producer. I brought in Cabaret Voltaire to do music (Richard Kirk was composer on Souvenir) and New Order. And that is where the song TOUCHED BY THE HAND OF GOD was made and i got Kathryn Bigelow to make the video. Viggo Mortensen plays with Exene Cervenka from X band. Viggo is a wonderful actor and does turtle things but does not do it yet.J'ai oublié mon premier long métrage comme co-producteur avec le réalisateur Beth B, et c'est là que j'ai rencontré Ned Richardson qui était un ami de l'écrivain et devint le producteur exécutif. C'était une horreur à faire. J'ai amené Cabaret Voltaire pour faire la musique (Richard Kirk était compositeur sur SOUVENIR) et New Order. Et c'est là où le morceau TOUCHED BY THE HAND OF GOD a été fait et j'ai obtenu que Katheryn Bigelow fasse la vidéo. Viggo Mortensen joue avec Exene Cervenka du groupe X. Viggo est un merveilleux acteur, il fait des choses turtle mais ne l'a pas encore fait. SOUVENIR Credits Director: Michael Shamberg Script: Michael Shamberg Photo: James Herbert Cast:
D. Stanton Miranda (Orlando), Manon Blanc (Little Girl), Kristin Scott Thomas (Ann), Melvil Poupaud (Charles), Hugues Quester (Michka), Laurence Côte (Isabel), Serge Avedikian (Taxi Driver),
Geoffrey Carey (Waiter), Laetitia Masson (Cigarette
Girl), Jules Nassah (Television Reporter), Goli Samii (Vision #1), Guillaume
Richard (Vision #2), Tibor Blanc (Passenger #1), Jean-Charles Blanc (Passenger
#2), Adam Hann-Byrd (Young Charles), Linda Bove (Computer), Priscilla Reeves co-producers: Why Not Productions Jason Kliot and Joana Vicente Country: France / USA Language: English, French Runtime: 78 min
« As for Souvenir, which I had never seen before (nor heard of), I was stunned. It was tantalizing. The image, the voice over, the "story", a breath-taking universe. » Fouad ElKoury
In TIME OUT (London) Tony Rayns has written on SOUVENIR: Digital film-making takes another big step towards sophisticated maturity in this haunting first feature by Michael Shamberg, hitherto best known as producer of music videos for the likes of New Order and Patti Smith. Shot entirely in Paris (the title has relevant meanings in both English and French), it starts with what seems to be a metaphorical road accident and ends with what seems to be a real one. In between, it chronicles a couple of distracted days in the life of Orlando (Stanton Miranda) an American sports journalist, during which her near-incestuous obsession with her late brother Charles finally prompts her French boyfriend to pack his bags and leave. Not much happens in story terms: Orlando misses a deadline (Kristin Scott Thomas guests as her editor), meets a basketball team in the locker-room and digs out some old smell-o-vision computer software programmed by her brother (wittily designed for the film by Chris Marker). What makes the film extraordinary is the stream-of-consciousness editing, which seamlessly integrates episodes from Orlando’s life with an imagined conversation with her brother (voiced by Christina Ricci and Adam Hann-Byrd) and with larger reflections on the family, the city, the impact of leaving home and the gap between dreaming something up and actually making it. The intricate structure and multi-layered images pick up nuances as the film goes along, gradually finessing a real emotional coup. In getting inside the mind of this vaguely self-pitying woman, Shamberg succeeds in saying something about the persistence of memory that feels awfully true.
Le tournage en numérique fait un pas de géant vers la maturité dans ce premier film de Michael Shamberg, jusqu'ici plus connu comme producteur de clips vidéo pour des artistes comme New Order et Patti Smith. Entièrement tourné à Paris (le titre est pertinent en anglais et en français), le film commence par ce qui semble être la métaphore d'un accident de la route et se termine par ce qui semble être un accident bien réel. Entre les deux, il tisse la chronique de deux jours de folie dans la vie de Orlando (Stanton Miranda), une journaliste sportive américaine. Pendant ces deux journées, son obsession quasi incestueuse pour son frère décédé Charles finit par décider son amant français à faire ses valises et à la quitter. Il ne se passe pas grand-chose en ce qui concerne l'histoire : Orlando ne rend pas un article à temps (Kristin Scott Thomas joue le rôle de la rédactrice), elle rencontre une équipe de basket dans les vestiaires et retrouve de vieux logiciels pour le "cinéma odorant" (astucieusement conçus pour le film par Chris Marker) programmés par son frère. Ce qui rend le film extraordinaire est le montage en flux de conscience, qui assemble de façon fluide les épisodes de la vie de Orlando avec une conversation imaginaire qu'elle tient avec son frère (avec les voix de Christina Ricci et Adam Hann-Byrd) et de plus amples réflexions sur la famille, la ville, les répercussions sur la vie quand on part de chez soi et le décalage qui existe entre rêver de faire une chose et la faire vraiment. La structure complexe et le sens multiple des images soulignent les nuances tout au long du film et aboutissent en finesse sur un choc émotionnel réel. En pénétrant dans le mental de cette femme qui s'apitoie quelque peu sur elle-même, Shamberg nous dit quelque chose que nous ressentons comme terriblement vrai sur la persistance de la mémoire.
Article de Tony Rays sur Souvenir (Time Out, Londres)
P.S. BEIRUT "a bricolage of scars, traces of repair, iconic meditations on the other side of war" MHS
From http://www.vimeo.com/13620616 p.s. beirut chapter 1 2008,
7:11 minutes, color, stereo 4:3 This being said saw P.S.-Beirut at long last. In many respects beautiful and puzzling. A feeling that I was just getting a taste of something , IE that it felt more like an intro cut short than a p.s., the first lines of a letter more than a line at the end of a letter. I was charmed and frustrated by the linearity of what I was seeing as if the echos and redundancies had not yet had the time to construct themselves and play.
From http://floatinglabcollective.org/onbelonging.html Each film in « On Belonging » examines different aspects of the world, in countries near and far, whether creating a place for oneself despite the forces of nature, leaving and returning to a place that is not really home, finding oneself ostracized and harassed in a community that once held dreams or reclaiming a place charged with family history. Inadvertently each filmmaker questions « belonging » in terms of personal situations regarding social, personal and/or political circumstances.
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