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London Dailies

William Montes-Liendo — who prefers simply Montes — touched down in London early this morning. Safe, exhilarated, and already filming. Within hours of arrival he began sending the first dailies: quick, spontaneous impressions of the city as he made his way toward what may be the smallest shared room ever conceived for human habitation — a micro-mini-tiny-infinitesimal capsule populated by fellow nomads from every corner of the planet.

Sunset Boulevard Memories

A 25-year-old immigrant who started out chasing a woman who only wanted Chuck Norris somehow ended up ringside for film history—Golan yelling in half-Hebrew, half-English, Jon Voight quoting poetry between takes, Konchalovsky fresh from the Soviet Union directing an American action classic.

Chasing Light: Discovering Sorolla

The short film I am sharing here is nothing more than a quick study—a montage of luminosity and shadow, a meditation on Sorolla’s way of sculpting daylight, a hint of guitar strings reverberating behind images that refuse to sit still. It is a first step, a way of preparing the eye before standing in front of the original canvases.