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TRUE FICTION PICTURES

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I remember perfectly a musician friend (who had a few tunes in my earliest movies) telling me in 1992 that I should make CDs of the music from my films. I remember replying: “why would anyone be interested in that?”

I guess I was so happy to be busy making films that I hadn’t thought that far ahead. Eventually, it became impossible to ignore and my various distributors in different countries were insisting on an album to help promote the films. In December 1992 True Fiction Pictures was made in a studio in upstate New York with my friend and music producer, Jeffrey Taylor.

I had been introduced to Yo La Tengo, Hub Moore, and the Brothers Kendall by my friend, the filmmaker, Kelly Reichardt, while editing my first film, The Unbelievable Truth, in early 1989. And for the next 36 months of insane, joyous productivity (roughly January 1989 to 1992) I sort of lived and worked in the cadence of their songs. Rue Des Jours by Ether was found on a cassette tape delivered by my new assistant editor’s friends, Ether, and Jim Coleman had been a friend and collaborator since college, always there to consult for music ideas.

I thank them all. And, also, the musicians who contributed songs to those early films but are not included here: Sonic Youth, Wild Blue Yonder, Bob Jewett, Cathy Crane, Kings Of Wyoming, Los Euclids, and Das Damen.

Hal, January, 2010