Afterimages has played at the Film-Philosophy Conference 2011, hosted at Liverpool John Moores University in Liverpool.
The screening was enjoyed by a generous academic crowd, who beleaguered the director with their smart questions afterwards.
A line-up of the full conference programme can be seen here.
En Attendant Godard has played at the Centre for Research into Film and Audiovisual Cultures (CRFAC) at the University of Roehampton, London.
The screening was well attended and included a discussion between students at the university and director William Brown, who is a lecturer in film there.
A link to details of the screening can be found here.
Afterimages has played at the 2011 edition of CPH PIX in Copenhagen.
This page for the film at the festival can be seen here.
The Festival Guidebook reviews the film as follows:
Everyone talks about the digital revolution, but only few people do anything about it and make films for fun. English filmmaker William Brown visited CPH PIX last year with his charming Godard hommage ‘En attendant Godard’. This year, he returns with his brand-new film ‘Afterimages’, and again we can expect a simple and likeable film, shot on video with absolutely no money – but with the same energy and desire to make films that drove his French role models in the 1960s. Dennis, an émigré from Guatemala, who makes a living as a baker in the middle of nowhere in Scotland finds a mobile phone on the street. The telephone contains nothing but a video of a girl being raped by three hooligans in a forest. After seeing the clip without knowing what was happens after, he can’t forget it again. ‘Afterimages’ of the video have burnt themselves into his mind and so the good-hearted Dennis sets out to find the girl and the three hooligans. If you have a penchant for the particular British kind of solidarity for the man on the street (and for French digressions), then ‘Afterimages’ is good company.
The trailer for Afterimages has been completed and is online.
The film, which was shot in March 2010 in Fife, Scotland, was made for about £1,000.
You can see the trailer here.
En Attendant Godard has a page on the Internet Movie Database.
The rating of the film currently is at a somewhat low 3.1 out of 10 – with only seven votes so far… Perhaps this reflects the difficulty of the film, or it might be that I clicked on 0 by mistake one time while looking at it and hoping to give it 10 stars. Maybe this will rise in time. It’s not a new version of The Room that we have made, after all.
You can see the IMDb entry here.
Bill White of the Seattle Post Globe has reviewed En Attendant Godard.
White expresses some issues that the film is not really about Samuel Beckett – but overall finds himself getting into the low budget ethos of the film and endorsing it.
Although offline now, the link to the review was/is here.
En Attendant Godard has been selected as one of the films to play on the opening weekend of the new ArtsEmerson Center in Boston, Massachusetts.
Playing alongside films by Jean-Luc Godard and Fritz Lang, the screening is a true honour for the film and its makers.
Details of the screening can be found here.
En Attendant Godard has played at the prestigious NorthWestFilmForum in Seattle.
Matthew Holtmeier introduced the screening, which took place thanks to the great help of Adam Sekuler.
Details of the screening can be found here.
Prestigious film academic Dina Iordanova has mentioned En Attendant Godard in one of her blog posts.
The full post can be seen here.
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