LAFCO
PRESS
The
Guardian
"Duncan Campbell gets on board the US's first mobile anarchist
digital video studio, and gets to see film-making and America in the
raw...(click
for complete article)
The Los Angeles Times
"At first glance, the graffiti-painted
school bus looks like something most moms would steer kids away from.
But this is no vandalized vehicle--it's a Mac-based video production
studio piloted by an edgy group of Los Angeles filmmakers working
to bring movie making to a wider audience...(click
for complete article)
Anderson Valley Advertiser
"An early morning mirage appeared as I left for my daily walk
along the Valley's backroads. Parked across the street from our little
yellow house on a quiet Boonville lane, a specter mindful of the drug-besotted
San Francisco fog in the sixties, a psychedelically painted school
bus...(click for complete article)
LA
Weekly
"Twenty-six-year-old founder Tao Ruspoli, an Italian-American
filmmaker born in Thailand, bought the 1985 Chevrolet Bluebird school
bus for $3,000 on eBay (where he was its only bidder), and outfitted
it with all the tools necessary for modern filmmaking: a library for
research, digital video cameras, lights, recording decks, three Macs
for editing with Final Cut Pro, even a screening room...(click
for complete article)
LA
Weekly
"With more than a thousand different productions of THE LYSISTRATA
PROJECT taking place worldwide and some two dozen or so in SoCal,
it was hard to decide which one to attend. The Lysistrata at the LAFCO
POWERHOUSE CULTURAL SPACE was definitely the city's big celeb event...(click
for complete article)
The
Guardian 2
"I first met him a few years ago in Venice, California, where
the spectacularly painted bus of the Los Angeles Filmmakers' Cooperative
(LAFCO), which he had founded, was parked. Then he was travelling
in the bus, making documentaries - Just Say Know (about his family's
drug habits), Flamenco (about a Gypsy Spanish dancer ) - and showing
other people how to make them. His credo was contained in the words
of Jean Cocteau painted on the side of the bus: "Film will only
become art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper...(click
for complete article)
Santa
Monica Mirror
"In the back corner of a Venice parking lot sits a 1985 school
bus converted into a mobile home. The outside is sprayed blue and
white with graffiti by a Los Angeles artist; inside it teems with
self-described gypsies...(click
for complete article)
RES
"Combining the Merry Pranksters with a high-tech news van, the
Los Angeles Filmmakers' Co-op has created a unique mobile production
facility that brings digital video technology to low income and ethnically
diverse communities...(click for complete article)
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