Jim Desmond

Películas

Chuck Berry: Rock and Roll Music
Camera Operator
A pioneer in the world of rock-'n'-roll guitar, Chuck Berry has created a legacy that spans decades. Berry performs some of his greatest hits and all-time favorites in this concert video that was filmed on September 13, 1969 at 'Toronto Rock'n'Roll Revival.' The Concert includes the songs "Rock and Roll Music," "Long Live Rock and Roll," "Johnny B. Goode," "Promised Land," "Carol," "Hoochie Koochie Man," "Maybellene," "Too Much Monkey Business," "Reelin' and Rockin'," "Sweet Little Sixteen" and "In the Wee, Wee Hours."
Depeche Mode: Live at the Pasadena Rose Bowl
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Concierto en directo del grupo inglés de música electrónica Depeche Mode, ofrecido el 18 de junio de 1988 en el estadio Rose Bowl de Pasadena (California) y correspondiente a la gira "Tour for the Masses" con motivo de su álbum "Music for the Masses" de 1987. Dará lugar al famoso álbum en directo "101" publicado en 1989, primer álbum en directo del grupo y también su primer álbum doble. Este concierto fue el número 101 -y el último- de la gira, motivo por el que este álbum recibió este título. Además sirvió de base para el documental "Depeche Mode: 101" de Pennebaker en 1989. El concierto no está completo, y únicamente se incluyen 10 de los 18 los temas que se tocaron esa noche, ya que Pennebaker desconocía totalmente al grupo hasta antes de que se le encargara el documental, y se le dio total libertad acerca de como captar al grupo. Según el site oficial de Depeche Mode, las 8 canciones restantes sólo fueron grabadas en audio para la edición del álbum.
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
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Hammersmith Odeon, Londres, 3 de julio de 1973. El cantante británico David Bowie interpreta por última vez a su alter ego Ziggy Stardust. Un espectáculo decadente, un collage alucinógeno de kitsch, ironía pop y excesos extravagantes: una simbiosis musical de pasión femenina y dominio masculino que define el arte de Bowie y el glam rock.
Town Bloody Hall
Director of Photography
Norman Mailer and a panel of feminists — Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and Diana Trilling — debate the issue of Women's Liberation.
Little Richard: Keep on Rockin'
Director of Photography
Keep On Rockin', aka Little Richard: Keep On Rockin' (USA video title) is a film of a 1969 Little Richard concert at the Sweet Toronto Peace Festival, originally released in 1970. Richard performs a number of his greatest hits, including "Good Golly Miss Molly," "Long Tall Sally," and "Tutti Frutti." The film is in color.
You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
Camera Operator
Description by D.A Pennebaker: "This movie is something of a mystery. Timothy Leary was getting married to a model named Nena Von Schlebrugge up in Millbrook, New York at the Hitchcock house, where Leary had been carrying on his hallucinogenic revelries for the past year or so after leaving Harvard. It was rumored that this was going to be the wedding of the season, the wedding of Mr. And Mrs. Swing as Cab Calloway put it. Blackwood took me downtown to meet Monte Rock III who was singing at Trudy Heller’s but who was also a very pricey and off-the-wall hairdresser and was in fact going to be doing the bride’s hair. Nena’s brother, Bjorn, known as the “Baron” was a friend of the Hitchcock’s, as was I, and the idea of going along and filming the wedding seemed not unwarranted. I’ve always wanted to film someone getting married."