By Barbara Ireland, on May 27th, 2011 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtDQOF_pU8A&playnext=1&list=PLBD151C04B48F684A
In creating a list of the film directors who have most inspired and influenced me, I realized a theme running through all of their works: These are directors who use dream imagery in their films; they flawlessly combine reality with non-reality; and make the inner world of a human being just as real as the outer world. They are all visual masters, giving us images and characters we have rarely, if ever, seen before. I thought about why that was so important to me, and realized that I experience even ‘ordinary’ life as exquisitely strange and unbelievable, and these directors are able to translate the unreality of real life in the most beautiful and artistic way possible. And I love that.
There is a term used in cinema called the ‘auteur theory,’ which states that although filmmaking is a collaborative art, the director is the primary ‘author’ or voice of a movie. Their personal life . . . → Read More: THE TOP SEVEN FILM DIRECTORS WHO MOST INSPIRED AND INFLUENCED ME AND MY FILMS
By Barbara Ireland, on May 23rd, 2011 
DVD Release June 1, 2011
Seattle singer Barbara Ireland worked for many years in film — she earned a BFA from New York University Film School, directed award-winning shorts and music videos, co-owned a film production company in Seattle called Filmus Maximus, and was Floor Director for KING-TV (NBC) newscasts and Production Associate at KING’s “Evening Magazine” show.
On June 1st Barbara is releasing a DVD of her short, experimental films and music videos in a collection titled, From Dreams To Delirium… and Seattle’s fantastic Northwest Film Forum is hosting the DVD release party! There will be drinks, snacks, fascinating people, wild films… and a ‘Secrets Booth’!
(Share a secret in the ‘Secrets Booth,’ and you get $1 off your cocktail or popcorn!)
WED, JUNE 1ST, 7:30 PM. The NW Film Forum 1515 12th Avenue Seattle, WA 98122 (located on 12th Ave. between Pike and Pine on Capitol Hill)
Click here for . . . → Read More: Barbara Ireland Releases a DVD of her Avant-Garde Films!
By Barbara Ireland, on May 23rd, 2011
On June 1st Barbara is releasing a DVD of her short, experimental films and music videos in a collection titled, From Dreams To Delirium.
The Northwest Film Forum is hosting the dvd release party on Wed, June 1, 2011. For tickets and info: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/174828.
“Barbara Ireland is to short films what Stanley Kubrick and Roman Polanski are to the cinema…except without the Ritalin!” Robert Williams, Juxtapoz Art Magazine
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