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Ears, Open. Eyeballs, Click. Chapter 2 Coming Soon!PRESS HIGHLIGHTS to dateThe first section of Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket" comes to mind... this nonfiction portrait is an even purer distillation of famously brutal Marine training methods. While chapter intertitles obscurely hint at humor (while referencing the events we're about to see), Brumley otherwise maintains a strictly neutral, nonjudgmental p.o.v. Nonetheless, the wide-format images - by turns formally crisp and hand-held frenetic - as well as his tight editing vividly convey the confusion engendered by extreme discipline, and the intense emotions felt by the young recruits. Audience's can, and no doubt will, read into the picture whatever political agenda they came in with. "...the film distances the audience while simultaneously putting it in the same position as the recruits: not knowing what will happen next. Brumley captures the initial nervousness and anxiety of the trainees as they stumble through the gauntlet of technical instructors ready to verbally rip them apart at every gaffe. The milieu evokes Thomas E. Rick's book "Making the Corps" and the first half of Stanley Kubrick's 1987 film Full Metal Jacket, as the group gradually loses its gawkiness and prepares for war."
"Filmed in the squad bays of San Diego and Camp Pendleton, "Ears, Open. Eyeballs, Click." follows Platoon 1141 on its transformation from nasty civilians to locked-and-cocked leaders of Marines. For 95 minutes, Canaan Brumley educates those outside of the Corps on the daily activities of recruit training without adding his own spin. Brumley provides us with a non-narrative documentary that every Marine should see at least once... it reigns supreme... "More violent than the first part of Full Metal Jacket, this vision of embrigadement, which passes by the constitution of a new hyper-paternalist family...is unforgettable...the director plunges us into the horror which leads to war, with very beautiful ideas of catch of sight...striking." "Though the film has been compared with Kubrick's fictional Full Metal Jacket, it is actually more devastating in its impact, not only because it is fact, not fiction, but because its technique, totally without any need to press home its humanistic message, makes us experience some of what its subjects must experience during their 12-week journey through marine boot camp." "A strident experience sans narration or moral subjectivity, Ears, Open becomes much more powerful and thought-provoking than it initially appears..." "The opening tableau of recruits arriving at camp could be the most brilliant single shot of the festival..."
"Brumley's wide-screen symmetrical shots evoke Stanley Kubrick's grandly cinematic style. [Utilizing] pure observational techniques, the film contains no interviews [and] calls to mind Frederick Wiseman's 1971 documentary 'Basic Training.' That recruits suffer unspeakable cafeteria food and sadistic drill sergeants shouting "Kill, kill, kill!" won't be a surprise to anyone who has watched 'Full Metal Jacket.' But 95 minutes of 'Ears, Open' supplies a visceral experience of the reality of basic training that no other report quite matches." "Without introduction, director Canaan Brumley throws us onto a bus load of Marine recruits about to undergo twelve grueling weeks of boot camp. Their mission: to come out as fearless trained killers. In a daring move, Brumley shuns traditional narration, interviews, and central characters, relying solely on the Kubrickian landscape he lenses with abstract precision. The result is an experience that will jump start your own opinions emotions, and prejudices- not just about the military, but about human nature as well. Whether you leave admiring the recruits' mental and physical discipline or questioning them as automatons, Brumley's surreal rendering is guaranteed to rattle your cage." "Semper Fi and black 'neath the eyes, this is what little soldiers are made of. Head off to boot camp in big, bold wide-screen and don't piss off your sergeant. Director Canaan Brumley has an unsentimental eye for how we turn mere men into Marines and an artistic commitment to economy, intensity and access." AWARDSFID Marseille - le premiere prix Lisbon International Documentary Film Festival - Best Debut Film San Diego Film Festival - San Diego Filmmaker Award 2005 Philadelphia Documentary & Fiction Festival - Best Editing Festival Du Cinema De Bruxelles - Best Cinematography HONORSInternational Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (IDFA) Hamptons International Film Festival - In Competition Los Angeles Film Festival (IFP/FIND) - Opening Night Documentary Full Frame Documentary Film Festival San Diego Film Festival Starz Denver International Film Festival Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival (U.K.) Belfort International Film Festival (France) International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (Netherlands) Tiburon International Film Festival Mar del Plata International Film Festival (Argentina) Sarasota Film Festival Jeu De Paume (Paris) Moscow International Film Festival Cologne Conference (Germany) Pesaro Film Festival (Italy) Rhode Island International Film Festival Taiwan International Film Festival TELEVISIONDocumentary Channel on Direct TV DIRECTORS BIOCanaan Brumley started directing films while attending high school in Houston and went on to receive his B.S. in film at San Diego State University. During this time he produced, wrote and directed thirteen short films before producing his first feature Ears, Open. Eyeballs, Click. He currently is editing his second feature titled Speakeasy. |
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