Tapes at Flying Dutchman

Jeremy, keeper of the Tokyo Cowboys tapes for the past 4 years, has sailed out of London. All 500 tapes now reside in the attic of the Flying Dutchman pub in South London. Our relative, Antonio, owner of the pub, will keep them safely there until we can retrieve them.

I have this bizarre idea that something useful resides on those tapes. Some story can be told from the 100+ interviews we conducted...from the b-roll.

But mostly, people tell me to move on. One day I will be settled near those tapes. It will be my hobby to look at the tapes endlessly. Looking for something. So that this piece doesn't become nothing.

My good friend Jeremy

is holding the Tokyo Cowboys tapes for us.
All 500+ of them.
He is storing them somewhere.
He is our good friend.

I need those tapes.

If you are flying from London to the States,
let me know.
Perhaps you can take twenty or so tapes.
In this way,
perhaps it will take a year,
perhaps two,
but, in this way,
I can get the tapes back.

Hugs,

Daneeta

The Modern Day Samurai

Tokyo Cowboys in Saiyouken Video

Does Tokyo Cowboys have Legs?

"Tokyo Cowboys" has been haunting me these days. Maybe it is finished, but I don't think so. Maybe I'm crazy and just can't let it go at that.

Paul hooked me up with a producer turned distributor out in La La Land. He said TC could have legs. Cut everyone out except Ken, he says. I like the idea. Ken likes the idea. There is good YouTube footage, and I want to do another trip.

Everybody thinks I'm crazy. Including my business partner.

Robert thinks I should break it into Webisodes. I'm not a hundred percent sure what that is, but it sounds good. We shot over 500 hours of footage. A lot of interviews with a lot of guys. We shot some Japanese people. Lots and lots of people.

Anyway...

Where to go from here?

Tokyo Cowboys at Lusher Charter School

Tokyo Cowboys had its New Orleans premiere yesterday at Lusher Charter School Uptown. Head of Media Studies and fellow Loyola Alumnus, Christopher Jeansonne invited me to speak about Elektrik Zoo's debut feature documentary, working as an independent filmmaker and how I got from Big Branch to Tokyo to London and back home again.

I was quite impressed with the students. They were engaged and informed, aware of the world around them, not afraid to formulate their own opinions and not afraid to call each other on faulty logic. I was also impressed with Christopher's curriculum. This term he is screening Ozu, Kurosawa, Kitano, Lynch, and Wenders among others. I was quite proud to have TC screen along side films by these great filmmakers.

Tokyo Cowboys does Naperville

This from the Elektrik Zoo Blog:


Tokyo Cowboys will screen at the Naperville Independent Film Festival in Naperville, Illinois in September. In addition, Elektrik Zoo's debut documentary feature about the trials and tribulations of life on the post-modern urban frontier has been nominated for best documentary feature.

Read the rest on the Elektrik Zoo Blog.