Time flies…

…when you’re archiving 55 hours of footage!

Apologies for the long break since our last post. We’ve both been sucked into the London rat race, and have been reduced to working on our archiving after work and on weekends.

The good news is we’re finished! (Well, almost: we just have 1.5 hours of footage to go). Next step will be to edit a 20-minute piece that we can send to funding agencies in order to pay for a proper editor. We’ll upload some edited bits in the next month or two so you can see how the story is taking shape.

In the meantime, here’s a pic of us hard at work, with little Bilal contributing to the creative process too (we’ll take all the help we can get!)

Opening night

On Saturday, March 19, we opened our exhibition with a full-moon party in Herne Hill. Thanks to all those who endured the tube cancellations to attend and help us make the party a success – we appreciate your support mightily! And special thanks to Alice Bailey who let us use her awesome exhibition space, Le Garage.

If you couldn’t make it and would still like to purchase a photo or two to help us raise funds for the documentary, there are still some limited-edition prints for sale. If you live outside of England, don’t fret – we ship worldwide.

Prices:
Large format – £150 (Framed)
Small format – £90 (Framed)

Check the link below for the available selection (as they are limited editions – 1/5 – please email to let us know which ones you are interested in and we will check the availability).

Click this link to see the photographs for sale.

The exhibition continues until Saturday April 2nd, so if you can make it down to Herne Hill, please do.

After Tomorrow Photo Exhibit

From March 19 to April 2 we’ll be showing a selection of Toufic’s photographs from our trip. The photographs will be for sale in order to help us fund post-production on our documentary.

The exhibit will take place at Le Garage, 115 Dulwich Road, Herne Hill, SE24 0NG (across the road from the Overground station).

We’ll be having an opening party on Saturday, March the 19th, so please come along and say hello!

Click on the link below to see the PDF of our official invite:
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BMI, “Love on the rocks” article

Just to update you that one of our articles has been published in the most recent BMI Voyager inflight magazine.

The article is entitled “Love on the Rocks”.

So if you’re flying BMI this month make sure you read it, keep it & let everyone on the plane know!

Here is the link to the online article, which contains just one photograph:
http://www.bmivoyager.com/2011/02/01/love-on-the-rocks/

And here is a link to a PDF of the article as it appears in the magazine itself, containing many more of Toufic’s images:
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* We must apologize to Sandra Jelly whose image appears in the magazine next to an incorrect caption. This is due to a misunderstanding by the BMI editors, who should be printing a formal apology in the next issue.

‘After Tomorrow’ Trailer!

Alright, we’ve finally completed a rough trailer! Until we can afford a real editor, Carl will have to suffice, so apologies to any editors out there whose sensibilities this might offend!

We’ll be working on a 20-minute cut next to send to funding bodies, and we’ll also be improving the graphics and colour grading and so on. But we wanted to get something up just to prove that we actually did some filming while we were out there.

Enjoy!

Watch it here:

A Bedouin in Prague

Just when we thought production was over, we get a call from Prague. It’s our friend from the Bdoul village, Mahmoud aka Habu Belgique.

Mahmoud moved to prague a few months ago to join his Czechoslovakian wife, Susanne. It was Mahmoud’s first time on a plane and his first time in Europe.

He sounded miserable & extremely homesick.

Toufic, who lives in Berlin, decided to pack the camera, book a train ticket and go see him for a couple of days and ask him why he was feeling so down.

Carl was slightly jealous as he was stuck (and still is) in an editing suite in London putting together a trailer for our documentary (to be ‘premiered’ on this site shortly, insha’allah!).

Here are some video stills from Prague:

Stills from our film

In between shooting 53 hours of footage for the our documentary, Toufic managed to squeeze in some stills using his Hasselbald and Fuji. He shot medium format film, no digital here.
Carl will be writing an article that will accompany some of these photographs and hopefully we will sell it to some magazines. The money for this article will help us fund the post production for our film (The way magazines pay these days it will cover very little but it is a start)
Here are the photographs, enjoy the music by Khaled Abdul Rahman (Saudi Arabia) who was quite popular amongst the Bedouins of Petra.

Ps. If the video above is too small  please view it on this link   http://www.screencast.com/t/N2FmZDE3NGEt