Jim Desmond

Filmes

Chuck Berry: Rock and Roll Music
Camera Operator
Eleito pela revista Rolling Stone como o quinto maior artista da música de todos os tempos, Chuck Berry deixa evidente em seu show no festival Sweet Toronto Peace em 1969 o motivo de ser considerado o verdadeiro pai do rock and roll.
Depeche Mode: Live at the Pasadena Rose Bowl
Camera Operator
Depeche Mode's famous 101st and final concert of the 1987-1988 Music For The Masses Tour at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Camera Operator
O documentário Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars mostra David Bowie na sua melhor forma no concerto London's Hammersmith Odeon de 1973. Foi seu último show com o seu personagem alter ego Ziggy Stardust que era um pop star alienígena que veio a terra para mudar a cabeça dos humanos, e apesar da origem fantasiosa, tinha muito de autobiográfico, e representava a estranheza comportamental e sexual do próprio músico que define seu estilo original quebrando as barreiras do sexo, e que era a marca registrada do 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
Depois da dissolução dos Beatles, John Lennon montou um grande show em Toronto com alguns dos seus ídolos. Entre eles, estava o verdadeiro rei do rock, Little Richards. Nesta performance extasiante, vemos por que sua lenda nunca parou de crescer.
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."