National Film Board of Canada 2007    "CARTS OF DARKNESS"

Just announced! Carts of Darkness will screen 3 nights @ Vancity Theater April 28, 29, & May 1st.

 

Carts of Darkness has been officially accepted into Toronto's HotDoc's Festival. Two screenings with the Director (Murray Siple) and Producer (Tracey Friesen) in attendance April 21 @ 7pm in the Royal Theater and April 24 @11:30AM in the Bader Theater. To visit the catalog of films click here. To buy tickets to the opening night screening click here.

 

WATCH THE TRAILER HERE - PLEASE CLICK THE "PLAY" TRIANGLE ON THE CONTROL BAR BELOW

In Carts of Darkness the treacherous mountain roads and discarded shopping carts of North Vancouver become the rivers and boats of self-exploration for a group of homeless ‘free birds’ who have few chances at joy. Carts of Darkness is a cinematic Trojan horse, utilizing a filmic vocabulary, visual flair and humour often missing from “message” films, as a way to bring viewers, especially young ones, to the issues. The film adopts the tropes of extreme sports filmmaking; fluid flowing cinematography, intense music, visceral pulse pounding action and irreverent characters unbounded by society’s constrictions, to bring viewers deep into a world and deep into people they would normally look away from. They'll come for the carts and the crashes, the booze and the bruises, but they'll stay for the story of a unique brotherhood and a quiet redemption. - Jonathan Orr

It is a story of the endurance and resourcefulness of a group of homeless men and a filmmaker trying to keep up, while overcoming perceptions around disability.

Shot in stunning high-definition, and featuring tracks from Black Mountain, Ladyhawk, Vetiver, Bison, and Alan Boyd, of Little Sparta, Carts Of Darkness captures the risk and intensity of life lived on the very edge.

"One of 10 Most Promising Picks at Hot Docs"
– The National Post

"An insightful exploration of the human condition."
– NowPublic.com

"It's simply incredible…it makes the previous big screen shot of extreme grocery cart action - as seen in Jackass - look positively amateur."
– The Vancouver Sun

                                                                                                                    

 

 

With Jamie Mahaffey finishing the sound design and final mix at The Mix Room.

 

 

Thank you to Scott Pommier for some amazing stills for Carts of Darkness. SBC skateboard ran 2 pages of them in the Fall 2007 issue. There is also a small write-up in Transworld snowboarding recently.

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April 17 , 2008

 

Go to the new NFB website to see excerpts from the film "Carts Of Darkness" and interviews with the director.

 

Living Vancouver

CBC's "Living Vancouver" recently broadcast a 5-minute video interview about Carts of Darkness and the director (Murray Siple a.k.a. "Independent Disabled Filmmaker"). Interview by Miss Malania De La Cruz.

 

     

"New for fall" photos on my page.

 

Alan Boyd of the London, U.K. based Little Sparta (Alan's solo project music is featured on Carts of Darkness).

 

I am now a member of Whistler Creek Productions. If you are looking for any Directors, D.O.P.'s, Cinematographers, photographers or locations in the Sea to sky area please contact us!

I have just edited my first "news" video for the Globe & Mail website. Conjoined at the head!