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THE JOURNAL
A DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER'S BLOG
NEW YORK CHARLOTTESVILLE VALENCIA

FEATURE ESSAY
The numbers do not fully absorb. As of this writing, 1,783 cultural heritage sites have been damaged or destroyed in Ukraine since February 24, 2022. Among them, 46 have been completely erased. The Ministry of Culture counts 346 artists and 132 media workers dead. PEN Ukraine had already reached 102 cultural figures killed by the end of 2024, and the count has not stopped. These are not collateral casualties. They are the point.
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Ansel Adams y Pablo Tabernero, una coincidencia notable
La primera vez que escuché hablar sobre la relación entre los sistemas de zonas de Ansel Adams y la variante de playas de Pablo Tabernero, fue durante una de las charlas que sostuve con Ricardo Aronovich durante mi visita a su enclave normando. Aronovich estimaba que aquella relación era fortuita, y que ambas concepciones eran contemporáneas. Así consta en Buscando a Tabernero, documental que cuenta con don Ricardo como uno de los primeros discípulos de Pablo Tabernero con qu

Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Nov 24, 20203 min read


The Other Madisons | Credit Sequence
Independent filmmakers spend more time crafting the opening credit sequences than most people would usually guess. At least, I do. The...

Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Nov 21, 20201 min read


La celebración: Un encuentro que zooma
“Puede ser que pueda ser, puede ser que no pueda ser. Pero es mejor si puede que sea”. Así decía mi abuelo con su acento de Europa...

Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Nov 21, 20201 min read


Felix Monti: A Tabernero le debo todo.
Reproduzco a continuación el mensaje que recibimos de Felix Monti cuando nos disponíamos a comenzar el rodaje de Buscando a Tabernero , con el objeto de que alguno de sus recuerdos puedan servir a futuros biógrafos de uno u otro. Estimado Eduardo, Una sorpresa y alegría saber de su preocupación por Don Pablo, como era para nosotros. Lo conocí en 1954 durante la filmación de La Quintrala en los estudio San Miguel, todo fue en mi camino una serie de encuentros casuales. yo tení

Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Nov 20, 20202 min read


Always Remember, You are a Madison
Charlottesville – Nov. 13. Another day went by sorting music and images to conform a sequence based on Bettye Kearse’s “The Other...

Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Nov 13, 20201 min read


The Other Madisons | Institutional Rape in Revolutionary Times
As we move along, down the path of descendants from James Madison and the African enslaved woman named Mandy, we come to Jim, Mandy’s...

Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Nov 11, 20201 min read


"The Birth of a Nation” Preamble of a dystopia fortold
With "The Birth of a Nation", originally called "The Clansman" (1915) by D. W. Griffith, the American audience was introduced to the...

Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Nov 9, 20201 min read


NPR | Cville's One-Man Moviemaking Machine
By SANDY HAUSMAN The Virginia Film Festival is presenting fifty movies this year – among them, more than a dozen documentaries. Most...

Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Oct 26, 20201 min read


Wisdom & Love: Montes-Bradley composes a tribute to Alice Parker
C-Ville Weekly | (Original Article) by Julia Stumbaugh - When Melodious Accord, Inc., reached out to Charlottesville-based documentarian...

Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Oct 26, 20202 min read


The Other Madisons, a Cross Country Journey
Back from the first leg of a cross-country journey in search of The Other Madisons. The Other Madisons is the title of the book by Bettye...

Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Oct 14, 20202 min read


The Other Madisons | Notes for a documentary film
Mandy’s Funeral at James Madison’s Montpelier enslaved graveyard. Reconstruction notes.

Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Sep 25, 20201 min read


Chorus America Presents: "ALICE"
Premiere and Talkback; Thursday, October 8; 7:00 pm EDT Watch at youtube.com/chorusamerica The virtual film premiere will be followed by...

Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Sep 25, 20201 min read


Alice Parker and The Fourth Wall
In “ALICE: At Home with Alice Parker”, a documentary film by Montes-Bradley, the audience joins the filmmaker Montes-Bradley as he breaks...

Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Sep 22, 20201 min read


On the Set with Alice Parker and Friends
While on location at Alice's old family farm in Hawley, Massachusetts, we run into our good friends Beth Neville, and John Borden Evans....

Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Sep 14, 20201 min read


OutTakes | At Home with Alice Parker
In the process of making a film with Alice Parker in Massachusetts, we recorded scenes that would eventually not make it to the movie....

Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Sep 11, 20201 min read


"Fury Over Spain" and Pablo Weinschenk
Outtakes from a forgotten documentary film Fury Over Spain is a documentary film produced by CNT-FAI in Barcelona in 1936. I strongly...

Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Sep 6, 20202 min read


Pablo Tabernero: La Historia Iluminada
Quienes alguna vez, a fuerza de ver y rever cierto cine argentino que nos encandila, reconocimos la firma de Pablo Tabernero como director de fotografía de algunas películas bastante prodigiosas y originales en el cine vernáculo, no sabíamos todo el misterio que había detrás de su nombre. Puede ser que lo hayamos intuido, sin embargo, porque nadie que pudiese crear esos espejismos, esos juegos de luces y sombras, podría haber sido una persona sin aventuras, sin experiencias d

Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Aug 29, 20203 min read


Here Comes The New Documentarian
Evolution of a Work-in-Progress. The artwork of your film should be an intrinsic part of your creative process. As a filmmaker, I can not...

Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Aug 16, 20201 min read
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