A pure cinema, non-narrative meditation on the rural American hometown. Featuring the music of Gustav Holst. Run time: 8 minutes 55 seconds.

The Same River Twice in Warwick, New York
A film by Michael McVey
Official Selection of the Warwick Summer Arts Film Festival (2018)
Music
The Planets, Op. 32 — II. Venus, the Bringer of Peace, by Gustav Holst
Performance by The USAF Heritage of America Band
Filmed in Warwick, New York, USA.
Copyright ©2018 by Michael McVey. All Rights Reserved.
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September 23, 2018 | Categories: Film, Uncategorized, Video | Tags: American, Classical music, film, flock, Gustav Holst, hometown, Hudson Valley, Main Street, meditation, Michael McVey, murmuration, New York, non-narrative, Orange County, Orange County NY, pure cinema, skiffleboom, starlings, The Planets, Venus, Village of Warwick, Warwick, Warwick New York, Warwick NY, Warwick Summer Arts | Leave a comment
Watch this celebratory video of actress ADRIENNE BARBEAU at Coolidge Corner Theatre’s popular night-owl movie program—Coolidge After Midnight.
Coolidge After Midnight honors actress, singer, and author ADRIENNE BARBEAU at the Coolidge Corner Theatre. The Boston audience was treated to a 35mm film screening of THE FOG (1979), followed by a special award ceremony and Q&A with Ms. Barbeau.
Hosted by Mark E. Anastasio
December 2nd, 2017
Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Filmed and edited by Michael McVey.
Video runtime: 39 minutes.
Copyright © 2017 by Michael McVey. All rights reserved.
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Warwick, New York: Scenes of a Pastoral Valley (2017) from Michael McVey on Vimeo.
This short film explores the seasonal beauty of Warwick Valley, New York during the Village’s 150th Anniversary. Featuring the music of Antonín Dvorák, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig Von Beethoven. Cinematographed, edited, produced and directed by Michael McVey.
Filmed on location in Warwick, New York, U.S.A.
July 3, 2016 through June 18, 2017
Warwick Sesquicentennial
1867—2017
Celebrating the Village of Warwick’s 150th Anniversary
Copyright © 2017 by Michael McVey. All rights reserved.
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Music:
String Quartet No. 12 in F major ‘American’, Op. 96
Movement I. Allegro Ma Non Troppo
Written by Antonín Dvorák
Performance by European Archive Music Recordings
String Quartet No. 15 in D Minor, K 421
Movement IV. Allegro Ma Non Troppo
Written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performance by Musopen String Quartet
Symphony no. 40 in G minor, K. 550
Movement II. Andante
Written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performance by Musopen Symphony
Symphony No. 3 in E Flat Major ‘EROICA’, Op. 55
Movement IV. Finale Allegro Molto
Written by Ludwig Von Beethoven
Performed by Musopen Symphony
All music courtesy of Musopen (musopen.org)
All music Public Domain Mark 1.0.
July 30, 2017 | Categories: Film, Uncategorized, Video | Tags: 150th anniversary, 1867-2017, American, Antonín Dvorák, Documentary, Eroica, Hudson Valley, Ludwig Von Beethoven, Michael McVey, nature, Orange County NY, Pastoral, Sesquicentennial, short film, skiffleboom, String Quartet No. 12, String Quartet No. 15, Symphony No. 3, Symphony no. 40, Warwick New York, Warwick NY, Warwick Valley, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Leave a comment
By Michael McVey, Skiffleboom
In March of 2013, I won a film competition in Boston and flew out to Hollywood, California to see my film screen at the Chinese Theatre. During my stay, I visited the Stanley Kubrick Exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, or LACMA. As a filmmaker and a film enthusiast, I was completely awestruck.
From November 1, 2012 through June 30, 2013, LACMA visitors got a glimpse at the genius responsible for some of the finest films ever made. I documented the extraordinary collection of all things Kubrick. I transcribed the exhibit in its entirety, word for word. It was an illuminating process.
Now that the exhibit is closed, I am posting my efforts here to share with those of you who could not make the trip. While there is no experience akin to seeing it in person, I hope these photographs and transcriptions further the educational goals of this exhibit: film can be great art. Studying the masters helps us discover new ways to understand, new possibilities to explore.
This exhibition is organized by the Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, Christiane Kubrick and The Stanley Kubrick Archive at University of the Arts London, with the support of Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., Sony-Columbia Pictures Industries Inc., Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios Inc., Universal Studios Inc., and SK Film Archives LLC.
In Los Angeles, Stanley Kubrick is co-presented by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and has been generously supported by Steve Tisch. Additional funding has been provided by Warner Bros. Entertainment, Violet Spitzer-Lucas and the Spitzer Family Foundation. Image: Stanley Kubrick in the interior of the space ship “Discovery”, 2001: A Space Odyssey (2001: A Space Odyssey, GB/United States 1965-68) © Warner Bros. Entertainment.
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