Open Films has been busy these last months including shooting a series of spots for Nikkor, Japan, in Colorado, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. to Austin. The work from last years spots for Nikon's new D3 Camera in New York, Pennsylvania, Colorado and Iceland with photographers Mattias Klum, Joe McNally and Dave Black can now be seen worldwide on the Nikon's website (click on each photgraphers name and then the movie button to see):
http://imaging.nikon.com/products/imaging/lineup/d3/onassignment/
Mark, who directed and DP’d the spots and worked closely with the Tokyo agency and Nikon/Nikkor.
Among other work, Mark recently directed and DP'd content for 20th Century Fox, Slimfast, USA Networks and DP'd content for Lowe's Home Improvement stores with the Cine Alta camera, check out the Lowe's website to meet Gus, Moe, Iris and Mike at: www.welcomebackspring.com. Mark also produced, directed and DP'd a spot for a New York high end dental facility which can now been seen here or on the web at www.eisdorferdental.com.
Open Films continues to produce, shoot and develop content for a number of companies here in New York and Internationally. We also have two sound stages with our partner in the heart of New York on Broadway and 18th Street right next to Union Square. If you need a stage, we have the place and the equipment. We also have amazing rooftop views of Manhattan from our Long Island City Studios!
Open Films Documentary Projects include a feature length documentary about the development of great wines in America told through the eyes of Mark's grand uncle, André Tchelistcheff, known as the "Winemakers winemaker" and one of the founding fathers of wine in America. Additionally, in development are two projects: one focussing on modern piracy in South East Asia and the other about an inward mirror into the culture, life and history of Japan.
Open Films Feature film Co-Produced/financed by Mark Tchelistcheff, “Conversations with other Women”, won the Special Jury Award and Best Actress Award for Helena Bonham Carter at the Tokyo International Film Festival and a great review by Roger Ebert:
“Conversations with Other Women” is another of the best films I have seen here. Directed by Hans Canosa, it stars Aaron Eckhart and Helena Bonham Carter in an idea that seems like a stunt and then deepens into the sadness of unrealized love. The stunt is that that entire film has been made in split-screen, so that we are always looking at two pictures. The left is usually occupied by Eckhart, the right by Bonham Carter, although they are free to enter each other’s frames and sometimes seem to be standing so close that the frame division is a formality; other characters sometimes enter either frame.
They meet at a wedding. She is a “substitute bridesmaid.” They talk. They flirt. They spend the night together. The nature of their complete relationship I will leave for you to discover. The movie is really about the passage of time and the finality of decisions taken and not taken -- about the loneliness of men, who seem condemned to regret what they have not had, and women, more content to accept what they have chosen. The two actors are talking for almost the entire movie, which depends on tone and pitch to sustain its deepening insights. The split screen comes to seem necessary”.
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