Film
In 2010 Anderson worked with Belle & Sebastian on the promotional film "Belle & Sebastian Write About Love", launched to coincide with the release of the album of the same name. Playing the dual roles of host and the group's stressed but pragmatic manager, the film also features the band performing songs from the album. The Guardian selected the show as a Pick Of The Week, calling it "brilliantly filmed, edited and slightly oddball". Anderson reprised his role by introducing the band onstage for their headline slot at the All Tomorrows Parties Festival in December 2010 in Minehead. Anderson has talked about working with the band as well as his passion for music.
Anderson has written, directed and starred in various short films. In 2009 he made "The Skills Of Conversation - The Heartburn Pause". The film is a comedic self-help guide to enable people to become better conversationalists in an increasingly technology obsessed world by pretending they have heartburn halfway through a sentence and how this can be used to ones advantage. Other techniques devised by Anderson for the series of films include a "Left Handed Cross Torso Chat Swoop", "a 45 Degree Head Cock" and the "Anecdote Joy Pull Back Switch in to Full Body Question Launch".
"Getting Out The House", a wry look at how to entertain yourself during the summer months on a stringent budget, and "Fist of Fernandez" in which he plays the evil Tango Fernadez, conspiring to kill a clean-living Kung Fu master. In 1996 his "Getting Out The House" won second prize in the "Borders Short Film Festival" and was described by the judges as having "the artistic flow of The Sound of Music and the camera angles of Debbie Does Dallas".
In 2011 Anderson completed an international distribution deal for his latest short film "Timber!" which as a result will be shown in the USA and Europe. The film is a comedic look at loneliness, and in particular one man's quest to find and understand love. Written and directed by Anderson, the film also stars Miles Jupp and Emily Bevan.
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Famous quotes containing the word film:
“I’ll be right here.”
—Melissa Mathison, U.S. screenwriter, and Steven Spielberg. ET, ET The Extra-Terrestrial, saying goodbye to Elliot as he touches Elliot’s forehead—ET’s final words in the film (1982)
“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”
—Ingmar Bergman (b. 1918)
“Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not flush with saints, and a good thing, too, for the saints sent buzzing into man’s ken now are but poor- mouthed ecclesiastical film stars and cliché-shouting publicity agents.
Their little knowledge bringing them nearer to their ignorance,
Ignorance bringing them nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to God.”
—Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)