Our concert documentary King for Two Dayswill premiere at the 2012 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival this February in Missoula, Montana. The film chronicles a two-night concert at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN, that celebrated the music of drummer Dave King (“Better than anyone at mixing the sensibilities of post-‘60s jazz and indie rock,” – The New York Times) and five of the bands he plays in (The Bad Plus, Happy Apple, Buffalo Collision, Golden Valley is Now, Dave King Trucking Company).
The film cuts between concert footage, rehearsals, interviews with the musicians, and plenty of lightheartedness along the way (see trailer). Following the festival, the film will be available for purchase on iTunes and on DVD. All the latest information on availability will be posted on the film’s website.
Noah Hutton at Purdue (Photo: Steven Yang for The Exponent)
Purdue University chose our film “More to Live For” to be the centerpiece of its annual Cancer, Culture & Community colloqium. Director Noah Hutton and subject of the film Seun Adebiyi traveled to the campus this week to take part in the event, which included a gallery show presenting visual art and soundscapes inspired by the film, speeches by Hutton and Adebiyi, a screening of More to Live For, and a documentary filmmaking workshop for Purdue students led by Hutton.
But most importantly, the drive to register more potential bone marrow donors to the international registry, held in conjunction with the More to Live For events on the Purdue campus, signed up a final tally of 1058 students– a single-day record for the More to Live For drives thus far and a thrill for those involved. Check out the gallery below for images from the events.
Henry Markram is attempting to reverse engineer an entire brain, one neuron at a time, on IBM supercomputers. This piece is the Year Two preview to director Noah Hutton’s 10-year film-in-the-making that will chronicle the development of The Blue Brain Project (bluebrain.epfl.ch), a landmark endeavor in modern neuroscience, culminating in a documentary feature in 2020.
Our ten year film project that will track the development of the Blue Brain Project in Lausanne, Switzerland, will get its second year update later this summer. Director Noah Hutton has just completed a week of shooting at the project headquarters on the campus of EPFL (pictured below). After it premieres at Google’s Sci Foo un-conference in August, we’ll post the edited Year Two short here.
An image from Bluebrain: Year Two. The campus of EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The Couple 3 team is deep into production on 30 short films on various psychology/neuroscience topics we were commissioned to make by Scientific American. Today we filmed 30 brief opening title sequences for each film at a studio in Brooklyn with dancers Stephanie Fungsang and Jeremy Finch.
On set in Brooklyn for Scientific American films. L to R: Natasha Newman (producer), dancers Stephanie Fungsang and Jeremy Finch, and Noah Hutton (director).
Prolific jazz trio The Bad Plus were co-commissioned by Duke Performances and Lincoln Center to interpret and perform Stravinsky’s infamous The Rite of Spring. Noah Hutton, in collaboration with Brooklyn-based artist Cristina Guadalupe, developed the lighting design and the visuals that were projected behind The Bad Plus as they premiered their Rite on March 26th at Duke’s Reynolds Theatre. Here are some images from the premiere of The Bad Plus’ “On Sacred Ground: Stravinsky’s ‘Rite of Spring’”.
Architect Christina Guadalupe and filmmaker Noah Hutton’s beautiful multimedia presentation added intriguing visuals to an out of this world auditory experience.”
Noah Hutton directed this new music video for NYC band The Indecent, composed of triplets Maddy, Bo, and Emily Brout, and Nicholas Burrows on drums. They signed a deal this month with Warner Brothers and will be in L.A. this spring to record their first studio album. An EPK and more music videos to come.
The documentary feature that Noah Hutton directed, edited, and scored for the global cancer foundation Love Hope Strength this past year is an official selection of the 2011 Sedona Film Festival, the 2011 Cleveland International Film Festival, the 2011 Dallas International Film Festival, and as a special screening event at the 2011 Aspen Songwriters Festival.
The film’s distributors are will be holding bone marrow registry drives in theater lobbies following screenings (a simple swab of the cheek to get on the list; if matched, donating is now as simple as giving blood), and filmgoers will have the opportunity to join the list and potentially save a life.
Article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer about the film and the cause.
Film page at the Cleveland International Film Festival.
Couple 3 has been commissioned by Scientific American to make a series of 30 scientifically-themed short films in 2011. We will be hard at work on the job between now and August, traveling around the country and putting together a talented team to visualize the science.
Director Noah Hutton is working with artist/architect Cristina Galvan to design the video art and lighting for jazz trio The Bad Plus’ interpretation of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, set to debut this year.
The C3-produced documentary feature More to Live For will be having its US festival debut in the next months– more on that soon. The film’s distributors will be working on an innovative “filmanthropy” approach to screening and marketing the film, where bone marrow registry drives will be held in theater lobbies following screenings, and filmgoers will have the opportunity to join the list and potentially save a life at no personal cost.
This year will see the return of C3 Director Noah Hutton to Lausanne, Switzerland, to film the second year of his ten-year film on Henry Markram’s Blue Brain Project.
Couple 3 will be working on a short film for The Center for Discovery, a groundbreaking institution in upstate New York that is renowned for the educational, clinical, residential, social and creative arts experiences it provides to children and adults with a range of significant intellectual disabilities and medical frailties.
NYC-based band The Indecent, for whom Noah Hutton has directed four music videos in the past year, signed a record deal this month with Warner Brothers and will be in the studio soon to record their album. An EPK, more music videos, and stage visuals for their live performances are ahead.
And lastly, we are excited to announce that Couple 3 Inc. has its first official studio/office space in New York City. We can be reached most business days at our new office number: 646-964-4585.
Our concert documentary King for Two Days will premiere at the 2012 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival this February in Missoula, Montana. The film chronicles a two-night concert at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN, that celebrated the music of drummer Dave King (“Better than anyone at mixing the sensibilities of post-‘60s jazz and indie rock,” – The New York Times) and five of the bands he plays in (The Bad Plus, Happy Apple, Buffalo Collision, Golden Valley is Now, Dave King Trucking Company).
Couple 3 has been commissioned by Scientific American to make a series of 30 scientifically-themed short films in 2011. We will be hard at work on the job between now and August, traveling around the country and putting together a talented team to visualize the science.