Julie Talen
Julie Talen is a writer and experimental filmmaker best known for her work with multi-channel narrative.[1] Her directorial debut, the digital feature, Pretend, premiered at the Lincoln Center’s New York Video Festival in 2003.[2]
Biography
[edit]Talen graduated from Brown College and the Columbia University School of Journalism.[3]
Talen has written for the Village Voice, American Film and the Los Angeles Weekly, and was a contributing editor to Channels Magazine.[citation needed] She assistant-edited an award-winning Merchant/Ivory documentary and worked as a researcher and assistant producer on the original reality series, Unsolved Mysteries.[citation needed] Her studio screenwriting assignments began in 1991, through a spec script – A Simple Wedding – which was eventually sold to Douglas Wick at Columbia Pictures and was selected by the LA Reader as one of the ten best unproduced scripts of 1992.[4] She has since written adaptations and original screenplays and worked with Gillian Armstrong, Paul Verhoeven and Robert Altman. She shared credit on the 1996 Paramount film Harriet the Spy starring Rosie O'Donnell and directed by fellow New Yorker Bronwyn Hughes.[5]
Talen's directorial debut, Pretend, uses an array of multiple frames and graphics to tell the story of a troubled family living in upstate New York. A.O. Scott of The New York Times called Pretend a “harrowing, dazzling feature.” [6] In Sixty Cameras Against the War (2004), Talen created an assemblage of random digital videos taken during an anti-war rally held in New York City on Feb 15, 2003, just days before the invasion of Iraq. The film was shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Ethics, Ambiguity, and Multi-Frame Narrative in Julie Talen's Pretend". Film Philosophy Journal. 7 (6). 2003.
- ^ "New York: I'll be Your Mirror". The Village Voice. July 22, 2003.
- ^ WEDDINGS; Julie Talen, Mark Feighn The New York Times August 22, 1993
- ^ O'Connor, Cara. "When You Cut Up the Frame: An Interview with Julie Talen". Senses of Cinema. No. 30.
- ^ "IMDb Julie Talen". IMDb.
- ^ Scott, A.O. (July 23, 2003). "CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Video Artists Escape Hollywood Sensibility to Explore Their Inner Worlds". New York Times.
- ^ "WAR! PROTEST IN AMERICA Film Series at Whitney Museum, NYC". 14 August 2024.