Bombay Beach
Well, most of the touring is done for the year, so I’m out in the desert editing on a documentary named Bombay Beach with a talented Israeli director named Alma Ha’rel. The film concerns the inhabitants of a small, largely abandoned town also named Bombay Beach. So far, it looks like the doc is going to be unlike any doc I’ve seen, and this excites me to no end. Alma has an amazing eye and describes the film as a visual poem. Also, it looks like Zach Condon of Beirut fame is going to be doing the music. way way cool. The pics here are frames from the film.
Alma is tracking progress on her blog. you can see more of her work, along with music from Beirut in the video she just completed for the band, also shot around the Salton Sea here. hopefully I’ll be working on the film on and off for the next several months.
unrelated: I’ve been out here for 6 days and the temperature has not yet dropped below 100 degrees. what have I learned? I’m pretty sure cigarettes burn faster in the desert.
