Lipsett diaries

Lipsett diaries official site

admin — Mon, 31 May 2010 15:40:13 +0000

This blog was an underground site of “creative process” of the film “Lipsett diaries”. It launched in November 2008, and served as a “social ventilation” during the tedious and intense process of making this film.

From today, it wont be maintained anymore. In the next month or 2, it will still be online, after that it will be deleted. A new, official film site is launched:

nfb.ca/lipsett-diaries/

onf.ca/les-journaux-des-lipsett

The End is Near

admin — Sun, 30 May 2010 21:25:00 +0000

This week. The World premiere of Lipsett diaries, at Worldwideshostfilmfest, Toronto. 2 of June, 7pm, Cumberland theatre. Also, LA, Leammle theatre, 4-6 of June.

This blog will End tomorrow. After that I fly for Zagreb. I don’t know why I decided to go exactly to this festival. I guess, I want to escape from the places where this film will have an impact, hide myself into a place where I can just have fun, and not thinking about the film. For a first time in my life, I feel nervous about the first screenings of my film. I put too much on this film, that’s why. It allmost killed me, literaly. It was intense, insane, day&night 2 Years work. Few hours a day sleep…It was a deep dive into the madness.

First press clippings

admin — Sun, 30 May 2010 21:04:07 +0000

The film hasn’t been shown yet, but there are some press reviews:
“The upstart actor and auteur from Montreal who recently made his second splash at Cannes, Xavier Dolan contributes narration to another Canadian standout. Mesmerizing for its smudgy whorl of images, Lipsett’s Diaries explores the fertile imagination and turbulent personal history of renowned NFB filmmaker Arthur Lipsett.”
Toronto Star, 28 may, 2010

Lipsett mistery continues

admin — Wed, 19 May 2010 19:41:44 +0000

Today, just 2 weeks before the film sorts out (another coincidence?) , someone put never seen before archives regarding Arthur Lipsett, on e-bay. Those are treasures. It looks like this guy/woman was a really good friend of him. He (or she) got the final letter from his aunt, about his death, and his gravestone. In any case - Arthur Lipsett ghost doesn’t find his peace, evidently. It comes, and comes again.

Lipsett.2 weeks before the first screening.

admin — Tue, 18 May 2010 15:20:57 +0000

The End

admin — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:08:54 +0000

The End of this blog will be with the first screening of the film. That’s it. Everything is ephemere, the life, the success, a love, a film,. Everything has an end, even this blog…

If the movie stinks, why bother?

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:28:21 +0000

Is suicide really so bad

Is there a time when suicide makes sense? If life offers nothing beyond the final breath, why sit through a whole movie you’re not enjoying? Hell, if the movie stinks, why bother?

A story after the end

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:13:56 +0000

P.S.

Another suicide. There are too many people around me, around us, who committed suicide, who passed away.

I feel disturbed. Embarrassed. So, that’s why…? If it depends on my decision, I would stop this film to be shown anywhere. May be it is not late? Trying to find a way to do it…Seems impossible.
She cried after seeing the film.

I didn’t want to do this film. The film wanted me to do it. It is an excuse.

Still, the life is worth saving.

Lipsett diaries poster

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:29:26 +0000

The most important part of a film is his poster.

The melted relations

admin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:32:25 +0000

All fixed, fast frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned …