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Editing the Footage
After the concert, the filmmakers handed Albright nearly 15 hours of raw footage, which he edited on an iMac using Apple Final Cut Express. (Qualifying nonprofits can also find a variety of donated and discounted video-editing and training software on TechSoup Stock.) Although Project Moonshine had recorded the concert using its own microphones, Sonic Youth allowed Albright to use the professionally recorded music from the band's soundboard, a development the director called "a huge plus." Synchronizing the band's audio recordings with the teenager's video concert footage wasn't too difficult, said Albright. Because the band's drummer started each song by clicking his drumsticks together, Albright simply located the first click in both the video recorded by the teenagers and the audio provided by the band, then lined up the two files in Final Cut Express as closely as possible. He also used the software to convert the original color footage to black and white, which he felt would give the film more of a raw feel that would suit the band's music.  A production still from "Sleeping Nights Awake" captures Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore in action. Photo courtesy of Project Moonshine. Since Project Moonshine lacked the budget to purchase more than one computer for video editing, Albright did a lot of the technical editing work himself, though he frequently asked the teenagers for their input on what footage to include. Lower was also on hand for 20 to 25 percent of the editing process, which he said was often tedious but enjoyable too. Premeiring the Film After showing Sonic Youth several sample pieces and getting its blessing, Project Moonshine ended up with an 80-minute film that contains concert footage, interviews with band members, and even some footage of the filmmakers themselves. In March of 2007, Project Moonshine debuted a version of "Sleeping Nights Awake" at San Francisco's NoisePop Film Festival, though Albright says that the organization is still editing the documentary in order to finalize it for potential DVD distribution. Project Moonshine also finished its film on Artown, entitled "Being Here," in January of 2007. For its next project, another group of teenagers will bicycle across Nevada this summer to film some of the state's historic sites. Lower believes that his participation in the program not only taught him videography fundamentals but also helped him become a better interviewer and gave him exposure to editing software. He credits Albright and Project Moonshine for a willingness to take chances and for letting the teenagers capture all the footage. "He [Albright] had a giant opportunity and he put it in the hands of a few high school kids with almost no experience," said Lower. "The principle of Project Moonshine was that the students film everything, and he stuck by that." |
i echo the wish to get this shit released properly but i totally understand jefs point. im still awaiting , nay, salivating at the hope of a little note from jef that sy approval has come for te elegy film. someday im sure it will happenn. the works present and in production are indeed Art with a capital A and deserve the respect and attention they can get but i dont agree with torrenting or youtubing them would have this effect. they are not car crash compendiums, both the film and filmmakers deserve more than that!
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nevermind filming the band for the documentary. there should be an entire documentary about sonic youth fans pretending to be sonic youth.
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^^^ man, that would be an epic film!
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 Film Screening: Sonic Youth: Sleeping Nights Awake Friday, January 18, 2008 7:00 PM Movies on a Big Screen 600 4th St, West Sacramento, CA - 4th & F in West Sac West Sacramento, California Category Media Description 1/18 Sonic Youth: Sleeping Nights Awake Location: 600 4th St, West Sacramento. That's the corner of 4th & F in West Sacramento (just over the river from downtown near the Pyramid Building). This amazing documentary/concert film captures Sonic Youth at their July 4, 2006 performance in Reno, NV. The film was shot by seven high school teens as part of Project Moonshine, a non-profit organization designed to teach filmmaking skills to students by providing opportunities to document important events happening in their community. Project Moonshine's Michael Albright (also the director) says that the documentary "contains some of the most intimate concert footage ever captured." The film recently premiered at San Francisco's NoisePop Festival. Admission: $5.00. Digital projection on to a large screen. Seating is mostly on folding chairs. Feel free to bring a pillow or cushion. |
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more screening coming soon.
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I know I'll scoop it up when it's available.
Thanks so much for sharing this with us. |
The Sacramento sneak preview of Sonic Youth: Sleeping Nights Awake
Friday, January 18 7:00 PM Admission: $5.00 Location: 600 4th St, West Sacramento. That's the corner of 4th & F in West Sacramento (just over the river from downtown near the Pyramid Building). This amazing documentary/concert film captures Sonic Youth at their July 4, 2006 performance in Reno, NV. The film was shot by seven high school teens as part of Project Moonshine, a non-profit organization designed to teach filmmaking skills to students by providing opportunities to document important events happening in their community. Project Moonshine's Michael Albright (also the director) says that the documentary "contains some of the most intimate concert footage ever captured." The film recently premiered at San Francisco's NoisePop Festival. |
it'll be for buy ??? or for download ?
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http://media.www.dailytexanonline.co...-3387895.shtml
Students' film does justice to rock band By Jack Frink The Austin Film Festival presented a special screening on June 26 of "Sonic Youth: Sleeping Nights Awake," a black-and-white concert documentary covering the seminal American rock band's performance in Reno, Nev., on July 4, 2006. The film was an undertaking by Project Moonshine, a program that teaches filmmaking techniques to high schoolers in the Reno area and then sends them to document important social events in the city. While this initiative would seem to be the kind of thing that would only work on paper, the viewer quickly forgets it was shot by amateurs. The concert shots give you all the angles you want, and the framing is very expressive. "Sleeping Nights Awake" winds up being a very effective concert documentar - an accomplishment that owes much to the editing and direction of Michael Albright, who was in attendance Thursday at the Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek for a post-show question-and-answer session. When asked why he chose to go with black and white over color, Albright said that, along with it corresponding to the title, black and white seemed to capture the band's performance better. Albright was correct: The stark black and white works with the venue lights to match the drive and sturm and drang of Sonic Youth's sound. The performances have the power and accomplishment one would expect of a 25-year-old rock act. It helps that the band performs many of its most accessible songs - "100%," "Kool Thing" (arguably the film's highlight) and "Incinerate." Sonic Youth is obviously very supportive of the project. When the band speaks to the camera, with only drummer Steve Shelley abstaining, the results are uniformly interesting. Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo and Mark Ibold are all charismatic people. This film could make someone a Sonic Youth fan. Finally, the audience for this concert: Even though the members of Sonic Youth are mostly in their 50s, their fans are as young as ever. The people working the cameras aren't the only high school students in attendance. Interview sequences with these young fans speak to the group's longevity. It's a great, somewhat surreal moment when Moore asks one of the cinematographers how old she is. "Oh, I'm a junior," the girl answers. Later, after the concert, another young camerawoman says, "What a great 4th of July!" She isn't kidding. Albright discussed hopes for a DVD release after the credits rolled, and hopefully a deal will be worked out. This is a treat for documentary buffs and Sonic Youth fans alike. It's definitely worth the rental if it ever pops up on Netflix. |
its good news.
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i saw this film and its nothing special.
nice footage of a RR gig but theres hardly any new information in there |
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i wonder when the Croydon Vue will show it?
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Sonic Youth: Sleeping Nights Awake
(Documentary) By ROBERT KOEHLER A Project Moonlight production. Produced, directed, edited by Michael Albright. With: Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelley, Mark Ibold. Sonic Youth has been documented by a host of filmmakers ranging from Jonas Mekas to Braden King, but the leading band of the No Wave movement has never been quite as expressively and thoroughly captured as by the high school crew behind "Sonic Youth: Sleeping Nights Awake." The Reno-based students, loosed with their vid cameras by director-producer-editor Michael Albright, form a solid unit in lensing the seminal band in top form during a July 4, 2006, gig at Reno's Sierra Casino and Resort. Serious fest noise should resound for the rest of the year, followed by a cultish DVD reverb. This is one of the most engaging and single-minded film studies of a band since "Instrument," Jem Cohen's 1999 film on Fugazi, and Cohen's influence on the filmmaking is felt in several respects. For one, the cameras -- as well as Albright's choices as editor -- pay far more attention to band members Thurston Moore (lead guitar, vocals), Kim Gordon (lead guitar, vocals), Lee Ranaldo (guitar, vocals), Steve Shelley (drums) and Mark Ibold (bass) than to the enthusiastic Reno audience. For another, the beautifully rendered black-and-white imagery layers the gig with a timeless mood that, like Cohen's best music docs, will give pic a long-lasting impact. Best of all, the music is uncompromised, full-bore Sonic Youth, a band distinguished by a rare gift for blending pop attitude with avant-garde taste and daring. Albright, having trained under Albert Maysles, shows that he's learned (and imparted to his talented students) Maysles' central documaking lesson, which is to always be ready to cover the moment with one's camera and to do so without visual or narrative trickery. Brief timeouts away from the stage show Moore, Gordon and Ranaldo, as unassuming and unpretentious as they've always been, comfortably and casually discussing their act, which combines some song-list planning with minimal preconception. Fortunately, the band and students clearly get along, and this simpatico makes for a smooth yet wide-ranging musical survey. Albright's editing is consistently intelligent and never ostentatious. Pic marks the second work by Project Moonlight, Albright's ongoing mission to develop high schoolers into filmmakers in his native Reno. More than one option More than one option
More than one option More than one option Camera (B&W, DV), Ali Alonso, Noah Conrath, Charlie Hayes, Danielle Hauser, Ben Kolton, Nathan Lower, Allana Noyes; music, Sonic Youth; sound (stereo), Alonso, Conrath, Hayes, Hauser, Kolton, Lower, Noyes; assistant director, Brad Bynum. Reviewed at Cinevegas Film Festival, June 16, 2008. (Also in Milan, AFI Dallas film festivals.) Running time: 84 MIN. |
http://losangeles.metromix.com/music...492166/content
Cinefamily presents Sonic Youth: Sleeping Nights Awake Silent Movie Theatre  611 N. Fairfax Ave. Hollywood, CA 90036 When: Saturday, August 16 4:30PM Price: $8 members/$10 non-members Cinefamily and the Don't Knock The Rock film fest present an awesome documentary on Sonic Youth, produced by a group of 6 high school students. Here's the story: In 2006, a group of high school student from Reno, NV set out to make a documentary about Sonic Youth. 'Project Moonshine', as it was called, gave the student cameras and a crash course in video production then let them loose to film "a day in the life of Sonic Youth" on the 4th of July. All the major players including those behind the scenes at the show are included in the film. A Q&A with director Michael Albright will follow the screening. |
Sleeping Nights Awake at Sound Unseen
In preparation for Sound Unseen, kicking off this Thursday, MN Dialog will review many of the documentaries that are part of the fest. The documentary Sonic Youth: Sleeping Nights Awake screens on Thursday, October 23 at 9:15 at the Riverview Theater in Minneapolis and again on Friday, October 24 at 9:15 at St. Anthony Main in Minneapolis. Reviewed by Elwood Fisher As a celebration of the alternative rock band, Sonic Youth: Sleeping Nights Awake builds an impressively intimate portrait out of performance, backstage footage and interviews from July 4th, 2006. The film, produced by teenagers, uses a deliberately static and sloppy composition in its photography that matches Sonic Youth’s music and aesthetic while depicting them at their most candid. With the disjointed and all-telling eye of a home movie, it demands honesty from its subjects. Presented in black and white, the gritty and hard-edged imagery quickly leaves the realm of amateurish cam-cording and becomes visceral and abstract, complimenting its aural counterpart. Many rock-performance films tend to rely on excessive cutting, presumably out of an effort to generate a complimentary rhythm to the music. But Sleeping Nights Awake features lingering shots that lend themselves to a more detailed and honest portrayal of Sonic Youth. That is not to say that all the shots drag. Rather, sequences of lengthy shots are punctuated with sensibly rhythmic cuts and screen compositions, generally in tandem with live musical performance. Direct soundboard recordings give it a live soundtrack of great quality, which boosts the production value to the point where it should be considered a complete and self-validating filmic representation of the band, whether that be performing live, preparing, or simply shooting the breeze. The choice not to show the audience during performances also reinforces the sense of intimacy. They may as well be playing on a stage in the recess of the screen before you. Whether a fan of Sonic Youth or not, the film makes for enjoyable viewing and may inspire an elevated appreciation for the band. However, the abundant self-description found in the many interviews with the band gives too much room to the debate concerning the band’s ideals. A camera-wielding teen at one point observes “that’s very artsy.” In an eloquent response, Thurston Moore responds, “We’re an artsy band.” Sonic Youth has no doubt solidified their place as a definitive band of their era of origination, artsy though they may be. As for the band’s position in the contemporary American music scene, the film addresses the issue, perhaps accidentally if not a deliberately. In one particular scene, a wall in a venue in Reno, Nevada, is combed over for its various signatures left by acts that have graced its stage. Most of the acts could arguably be past their respective primes. One of several local Sonic Youth fans then remarks about how the venue serves as a place “where bands go to die.” I assume Sonic Youth would beg to differ, if they would reduce themselves to trying to change an audience’s opinion. Left with the feeling that I now know them on a more personal level, I would suspect they wouldn’t be concerned with such matters but concern themselves instead with the demands of the music. Elwood Fisher is a screenwriter/actor/musician based out of Minneapolis. Originally from the small slice of Americana known as Eyota, MN, he has come to Minneapolis seeking simply a larger pond. An avid fan and proponent of mixed martial arts and organic and local farming, Elwood advocates, in all areas of life and culture, the mentality of “thinking globally and acting locally.” |
Moshe, come on join the do you miss fun.
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wisconsin film festival screening
Sonic Youth: Sleeping Nights Awake gets its Wisconsin premiere tomorrow night:
Screening Schedule Thu, Apr 2nd 10:45pm Play Circle Theater $7.00 |
I want DVD!
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I second that!
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http://badgerherald.com/blogs/arts/2...h_sleeping.php
review Posted Monday, April 6, 2009 at 8:15:45 PM What did you accomplish in high school? Were you captain of the soccer team, did you star in your school’s play? Or did you have the chance to film one of the most well-known alternative rock groups of the past 20 years? “Sonic Youth: Sleeping Nights Awake” is the beautiful result of the latter, and yes, you should feel both jealous and foolishly inadequate. The 2008 documentary was directed by Michael Albright and captured by Project Moonshine, a non-profit group training teenagers for filmmakerdom. Their assignment, worthy of endless envy, was to follow Sonic Youth in Reno for their July 4 2006 show. Far from being amateur, what these ambitious high school kids did with three digital cameras and an artistic eye is astounding. The documentary, shot in black and white, is a sophisticated portrait of the famed noise rock troupe that knows how to stay relevant. Considering Sonic Youth’s legacy, these young filmmakers are all the more impressive in their brilliant visual feat. Instead of being intimidated, the young protégés let their curiosity drive their endeavor and the result is a multitude of honest and powerful frames. Interviews alternate with live footage from the concert, providing points of contrast between the candid vulnerability of the band members and crew with their raw power and energy onstage. We all know what Sonic Youth is capable of, but their humility is drawn out by questions ranging from “what would stop you from continuing?” to, “we hear you really like burritos”. What results is a feeling of conversational depth that matches the film’s richness of visual splendor. Some of this depth may be purely coincidental. Perhaps the visual flatness of interview style is what creates such high contrast with stunning montages of fingers picking strings and mouths kissing microphones being illuminated only by strobe light. Yet it is through a lack of manipulation and pure creative vision that so many memorable shots of barely-lit profiles and guitar close-ups permeate the screen. It isn’t difficult to imagine yourself behind the lens, because what is shown is exactly what you want to see. The ease of interaction between the band and young film crew provides a revealing vignette into the dynamics of the band members. One moment Kim Gordon is divulging her hesitations and the ideology of the group, and then we enter variety hour with the ever clever Thurston Moore. We hear from the men manning the technical equipment that they are still mystified by the shows, we emerge with a sense of respect for the humble, grounded powerhouse that is Sonic Youth. The sensitivity shown in both capturing and editing the footage of actual performed songs is compelling. The speed of the cuts match the energy of the band, creating an atmosphere that would otherwise have been lost in translation. It’s as if the ticket for the film has suddenly become your backstage pass into an electrifying show. Near the end, Moore admits that the band had a choice between having a day off or partaking in their Reno show. You can’t help but feel a pang of shock in contemplating a universe without this experience that Project Moonlight was determined enough to capture, and gifted enough to make beautiful. |
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So, are there any plans for this to come out on DVD soon? Or is there anyway to watch it on line?
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Almost 4 year bump to this...Has this thing will ever come out? is there a way to watch or get this thing on line? |
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EDIT: I'm thinking of the wrong movie. So this never came out on DVD then huh?
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