Han writes from Cannes:

“films we’ve acquired at cannes so far:
Entre les murs (the palme d’or winner)
La vie moderne (Modern Life, Raymond Depardon’s beautiful and poetic doc)
Mermaid (the Russian Amelie, Sundance Best Director 2008)

“the post-cannes shit is killing me.”

And in other news, I sold De Chirurgie, the antique book that an investor gifted us. It went for $1,000, which was very exciting at first this morning, but then I went to Excel to add that to the raised budget section and saw that I already had it in there for that amount, on the assumption that it would sell for no less than $1,000. So, well, that part of the budget is now officially covered, not just wishful thinking, but it doesn’t resolve my issue with the additional moneys Alex and Keturah added to the budget last week.

LOL

Marcella and I had a good day yesterday.

Jonny got in to SF last night. We’re about to meet for breakfast and plan out our weekend here. Then tomorrow we drive down to LA.

Tonight we’re meeting some of the SF crew to hang out. I might go over to Berkeley early to make a model of the space out of cardboard. Susan found a model maker it appears. Now I need to get him detailed views and plans. This model will be the first move towards that.

Jonny and I also hope to make it over to The Headlands Center for the Arts to meet David, who has a residency over there right now.

And I finished Jared Diamond’s Collapse a couple days ago. I’m re-reading Postproduction by Nicolas Bourriaud.