Paul Simon, Kurt Cobain - Steve Gadd, Dave Grohl
Four, legendary rock musicians inspire two, fearless up-starts to create a mash-up of reckless abandon.
Horror - Intrigue - Substance?
THE SUBSTANCE
Written and directed by French auteur, Coralie Fargeat, the movie premiered in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival and won for Best Screenplay. Starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley, Brett had a day-player role as the New Year's Eve Show Director and while it's true there are no small roles only small actors, his screen time in this jaw-dropping film ended up clocking less than three seconds, not enough, really, to cajole his mother into seeing it but given the nature of said jaw-droppery, probably for the best.
Check out the trailer below
New Music Video
JACQUELINE, or The Moon over 5-19
Images by Agnès Varda
New Song Available
As part of BASEMENT STUDIOS PARIS annual rock song sampler, Brett's song, YOUNGER, can now be streamed and/or purchased for download
KIA
"Endless Inspiration"
New KIA spot directed by the indomitable Jaron Albertin and his international team of cinematic ninja assassins. Shot in Madrid and Guadalajara, Spain 🇰🇷🇨🇦 🇪🇸 🇺🇦 🇳🇱 🇺🇸
A melody heard by chance, a song reimagined into dance
Irma Vep - HBO
Director Olivier Assayas re-imagines his famous re-make of Les Vampires for a star-studded mini-series on HBO, packing as many real-life, Parisian vampires into the cast as possible. Shooting only at night and providing warm blood as well as hot coffee, Brett agreed to play a small role and is seen here on the verge of a snaccident
Backstage Paris is at it again, exploring the latest work of two titans of modern art and the love and inspiration they left behind
Paris Revealed
Backstage Paris, cheeky sneak-peeks behind the scenes of the most spectacular city in the world
Check out Episode #1 below
Little Belt
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Watch the full film in Chanel boutiques throughout the world. Watch a short version here.
"Votre courrier, madame. That watch goes very nice with your towel, by the way."
"En cuanto a mi gorro, lo llevaré de vuelta."
MUSIC VIDEOS
One of the coolest bands in France, the World, and perhaps the Universe is Naive New Beaters
Dick Bordeaux returns with David Boring and the Boys in
a nearly impossible adventure of high-jinx and shenanigans. Who lives, who dies - who laughs, who cries?
You decide in the new, Choose Your Own Adventure style music video for NNB's "Words Hurt," from Romain Chassaing and the madmen and fearless women at SOLAB pictures.
Winner, UK Music Video Awards, 2017
Bravo Romain Chassaing et big up à toute l'équipe ! 😎
"Heal Tomorrow" featuring Izia has gathered numerous awards and clocked over six million views
Filmed in surround 360º.
Move your phone or use your trackpad to follow the singer through three, simultaneous worlds.
Bananas!
Moustache: Fake
Grin: Real AF
FILM
Four Beatniks in a Room
a film by Hisham Amer
Mexico City, Summer, 1951. William S. Burroughs struggled to write until he spent time in a Mexican jail for a crime almost impossible to imagine. Brett Gillen struggled to not wet the bed well into the late Seventies. The difference between these two is vast, the things they have in common, few. Brett has yet to write a masterpiece, murder his wife, etc. And yet, for a day and one long night, along with Mr. Ginsberg, Mr. Kerouac, and Ms. Vollmer, he feasted naked before a young man's camera "all wrapped around each other like a nest of hibernating rattlesnakes."
La Douleur
With Jason Domnarski, Cédric Vallet, and Pete Freeman
Paris est libéré!
"La Douleur" by Marguerite Duras is a gorgeous novel about Paris at the end of WW2 and now a film by deranged madman, Emmanuel Finkiel who lost his shit three times on set screaming at everyone to be professional. So much fun to be shouted at in French by a middle-aged tortured genius! Shot with real American GI uniforms in a secret Metro station, all is forgiven Mr. Finicky - forging poetry into the moving image be not for the faint of heart.
Voice Over
Hold the Lines - Operation Cobra
Lead voice actor in filmmaker Hadrien Besse's Sam Peckinpah inspired stop-motion plastic gore-fest, selected for the prestigious "Coup de Coeur" at Cannes, 2017.
"A plasterpiece." - CHARLIE LEGDO.
"A towering achievement impossible to step on, and thank gooodness 'cause it's sharp as hell." - BRICKDANCE FILM FEST
But always drink responsibly
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Smolder Much?
Produced by Ridley Scott and starring Kristen Stewart the director is a genius and the nicest guy in the world. Not nice enough though to save Brett's part which originally opened the film. Nor Aurora Perrineau's. Nor many other actors, not to mention three, ten-day-old babies. Brett's review: "A lot of beautiful scenes in this movie, not a lot of Brett." If you went to see him in this, he is sorry. And if you went to see Kristen Stewart looking weepygorgeous, you got your money's worth and are probably not reading this. All to say, alas. Audition in Tokyo, move to Paris, fly back to shoot it, get cut like gristle. Makes you wanna throw in the towel and put Baileys in your coffee, maybe order a pizza tonight and pirate some rom-com piece of shit off the internet.
Funérailles
a film by Adrien Gaigne
Brett doesn't spend much time in church but when he does it's to play ghosts for young, French film makers.
With Simon Dusart, Ania Gauer, Hugo Lebreton, Marc Amyot, and Bruno Degrinnes.
Screen Cowboy
Morgan Guering project, Matrix meets Buster Keaton.
Un chasseur de prime se lance dans une quête périlleuse : retrouver les icônes de Hollywood avant que la modernité ne les fasse disparaître.
You disappoint me, cowboy. Deploy the sentinels.
Taro
a film by Franck Marchal
From Films de la Falaise, "TARO," shot in a real, Parisian squat.
"TARO is a story about the relationship between art and beauty, love and death. It's also a film about sexuality."
- Writer/Director, Franck Marchal.
Can you tell he's French?
Burntoy. Not to be trusted.
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SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE
Mid-level Bank Employee or International Sock Model? Il n'y a q'un pas.
NATURALIA
de l’agence Altmann + Pacreau, diffusé dans 360 salles de cinéma de 32 villes.
WEB
Appearing in new web series, "The Game of Life," from Parisan writer/directors, Naia Lassus and Baptist Penetticobra. Here's a story about the project from a cool, French magazine:
Should be able to watch some of it here.
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