Des Temps

Tag: Film

  • Bradford Young, the Legend Grows

    Desedo family member Bradford Young has done it again. This time the venue is the Sundance film festival where he has won the Cinematography award for the U.S. film Pariah. We suspect that it is also the first of many great distinctions to come. The film, directed by Dee Rees, played the festival a year ago as a short, and has already been picked up for distribution by Focus Features. Brad was actually at Sundance with two features this year: Pariah, and Andrew Dosunmu’s Restless City.

    I first met Brad in grad school and we’ve had a great many discussions over the years about a life in film — working together when possible. Inspired by a four-hour conversation we once had on color correction, we recorded one of our conversations. Here’s what happened.

    Being from Louisville, Brad has an even bigger legend to live up to. Here’s hoping he can top that one as well!

  • Own The Night

    This past Halloween saw team Desedo plus a few hundred of our closest friends breaking things down in Brooklyn. At some point the camera came out. We’ll call it an exercise in creativity, a night of fun captured on film… Embedded journalism! All of that to say that time marches forward. And we like to march right along beside it. At times with booze and homies.

    The Monster Mash was thrown by Jamie and Debbie (whose freshly minted ghost kitty is worth a checkout too). Of course, the scariest costume of the night goes to the guy with the custom-embroidered Bed Bugs hat and strap-on mattress. Don’t wave that thing at me, buddy.


  • IFP + HOTC

    That’s a lot of initials. We’re pleased to announce that our project based on Raafi’s screenplay Heart of the City has been accepted into IFP’s No Borders international film market. Our festival buddies from Power to the Pixel, Koo and Zack will also be there with their project 3rd Rail. There will be many meetings to come. And perhaps a few cocktails. Always cocktails.

  • They Make Movies, Don't They

    a heady mix

    In a word: yes. Here are some stills from my recent 5 day shoot in Princeton, NJ. Good times. But you already knew that.

    raaf on the sticks

    still photos by Mykwain Gainey.

  • PIA

    where will we go from here?
    San Francisco, 2063.
    A service android brand-named PIA has replaced the majority of third tier labor in the United States. Hospital nurses, hotel workers and other maintenance driven industries all use the sleek, black-clad, human-organ powered machine to supplement their human workforce….
    when i dream, i see
    Desedo friend Tanuj Chopra was one of 11 filmmakers to tell a story for the new ITVS series Futurestates. Step into the world of PIA.

  • Blood, Bruises and Levi's

    Jumping into the wayback machine, here is a Levi’s spot we cooked up whilst bumping Motley Crue in ’05.

  • We. Are. Alive!

    We. Are. Alive!

    Desedo fam Jordan and Brad went out to Red Rocks and shot this gorgeous commercial for McDonald’s. They worked with Abe Froman Productions and the ad agency R+W. The song, which is quite happily stuck in my head, is by Hungry Cloud.