Glass, Part 6

0 Comments POSTED: September 5, 2007 14:37 | By: Scott Hicks

On the making of GLASS: a portrait of Philip in twelve parts: All in all, making this film has been a return to my roots as a filmmaker - pursuing an idea of personal passion, living it by the skin of your teeth, figuring out the financing and maintaining the persistence of vision you need to realise the dream. I've enjoyed returning to the documentary form of story telling after more than a decade away from it - with all its unexpected developments, frustrations and delights.

Glass, Part 5

0 Comments POSTED: September 5, 2007 14:34 | By: Scott Hicks

On the making of GLASS: a portrait of Philip in twelve parts: Finance remained a pressing issue but ultimately, the full budget was raised from a small group of private investors in my hometown of Adelaide, South Australia. And there were others who became enthused with my vision for this film, enabling it to happen. Oasis Post has hosted the editing of three of my movies. They devised a post-production path that allowed the film to be pulled together efficiently with the best technology, despite being shot on multiple formats across three continents over two years. My son Scott Heysen, who had first turned me on to Glass some 23 years earlier, now applied his invaluable creative computer genius to the film.

Glass, Part 4

0 Comments POSTED: September 5, 2007 14:27 | By: Scott Hicks

On the making of GLASS: a portrait of Philip in twelve parts: As the material accumulated - more than 120 hours of it - the pressing question for me became "How on earth am I going to edit this thing?" Enter Steve Jess - a fine editor I had worked with in New York on various commercials. Steve offered to give up his day-job at post-production company Whitehouse for seven months (and they generously agreed) and applied his extraordinary energy to this project. Using cineSync software created in Adelaide by Rising Sun, we would lock our computers together and screen sessions of cuts across the globe - usually very early in my morning, which was late in the day for Steve. We also had face to face editing sessions when I was in New York, and then he came to Adelaide for a month of fine cutting. Steve proved to be a marvellous collaborator.

On Glass, Part 3

0 Comments POSTED: September 4, 2007 19:09 | By: Scott Hicks

In 1997, while I was editing ?Snow Falling On Cedars? I used a track of Philip?s music as ?temp? (what filmmaker hasn?t?) for a powerful sequence we were working on. I made contact with his publishing company Dunvagen to enquire about licensing the track, and formed a connection with his manager Jim Keller. It was Jim who encouraged the start of a relationship between Philip and myself, and over the next few years I enjoyed a number of his performances from Los Angeles to Sydney, taking both my sons to see Philip and his Ensemble play live to screenings of movies.

Notes on GLASS, Part 2

0 Comments POSTED: August 29, 2007 14:00 | By: Scott Hicks

On the making of GLASS: Philip being Philip, there was never a dull moment. Every day there was something new: a fresh collaboration, renewal of an old friendship, rehearsals for a world premiere of a new work, recordings of film scores (including my own ?No Reservations?), sessions with other film directors, time out with his infant sons. Gradually pieces of his rich and varied life revealed themselves as Philip generously opened the doors into his family and friendships, as well as the extraordinary tapestry of his evolution from early days in Paris and the downtown New York art scene of the 60?s and 70?s.

Getting Close to Philip in "Glass"

0 Comments POSTED: August 22, 2007 14:18 | By: Scott Hicks

I wanted to create a story where the participants were the narrators with
the sense that the audience was invited into the room to share in these
lives of Philip, his friends and family. I always felt the film would be a
kind of ?mosaic portrait?, like a Chuck Close portrait, where an arrangement
of fragments form an overall picture.

Picture: Director Scott Hicks (center) films artist Chuck Close (left) in
conversation with Philip Glass (right) in New York, as part of "GLASS : a
portrait of Philip in twelve parts" (photo by L. Skutch)

Glass, Part 6

Glass, Part 5

Glass, Part 4

On Glass, Part 3

Notes on GLASS, Part 2

Getting Close to Philip in "Glass"

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