Kelley and I are kicking off this season in style with a lively chat about his independent filmmaking and writing journey from film school, working in the sound department, and directing shorts and features in Portland, Oregon to writing books and short stories. We talk about why living life is so important for artists, what makes a memorable story, what he looks for and what turns him off in movies, why book-to-film adaptations often fail to measure up to his imagination, and why you should always help your friends out on their creative journey. Sprinkled throughout is his approach to both filmmaking and writing books: do whatever you need to do to tell your stories.
Kelley's Links
- Angry Filmmaker
- Angry Filmmaker Merch
- Road Dog by Kelley Baker
- The Angry Filmmaker Survival Guide Part Two: Sound Conversations with (un)Sound People by Kelley Baker
- Birddog (1999)
- The Gas Cafe (2003)
- Kicking Bird (2005)
Show Links
- USC Cinematic Arts
- The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985)
- Gus Van Sant
- My Own Private Idaho (1991)
- Finding Forrester (2000)
- Cincinnati Art Museum
- A Brief History of Dada
- René Magritte
- Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
- On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
- Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
- Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
- American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
- Oppenheimer (2023)
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
- Ironweed by William Kennedy
- Ironweed (1987)
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
- Spaceballs (1987)
- O Lucky Man! (1973)
- A Clockwork Orange (1971)
- Kanopy
- The Bishop's Wife (1947)
- The Day After Trinity (1981)
- Jaws (1975)
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
- Shock Treatment (1981)
- The Blair Witch Project (1999)
- Snakes on a Plane (2006)
- Alanis Morissette
- Alanis Morissette – You Oughta Know (Official 4K Music Video)
- Dogma (1999)
- Kevin Smith
- Chasing Amy (1997)
- Michelle Mower
- Midjourney prompt for episode artwork: cosmic accident in the style of dadaism and magritte --ar 16:9 --v 6.0