Kraken Swims Out In The World

Guess someone had heard it after all…

Thanks to Joneses for raising the alarm.

She Don’t Care About You Anymore

“She Don’t Care (Tiger Version)” is now on Soundcloud.

She Don’t Care (Tiger Version) by Beaufort

This track is available on the second CD included with the Tiger DVD. It doesn’t actually feature in the film, but is part of a six-track extension soundtrack that evokes emotions surrounding events in the film. When you’ve got a very small budget to shoot a story, there are things that are left out and the extension soundtrack, mostly simple piano pieces, serves to fill the gaps.

Goodies

Our techno track Kraken is now on Soundcloud.

Kraken by Beaufort

Also, our latest short film Burning Hearts is playing in Hamburg this May as part of the Japan Film Fest. The festival runs from the 25th-29th. Ace ace ace.

Here’s a screenshot of Anna Shpak and Rory Stewart grappling on the streets of Asakusa.

Galliano 96

As our thoughts turn to our Japanese friends, here’s a new track, pulled from the archives and made good.

Galliano 96 by Beaufort

Poor old John.

GIRL CRAZY GO! Storyboards

Our storyboards from Girl Crazy Go! our 2010 clip for Muscles. Interview about the making of here.

Burning Hearts

Our new short film is being shown in Japan, Hong Kong and Berlin, so we can’t upload it yet. In the meantime, here are some images.

UNIJAPAN

UNIJAPAN, sponsors of Beaufort’s latest film Burning Hearts , along with the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, have posted on their website a rundown of all the sponsored films:

http://www.unijapan.org/news/unijapan/post_36.html

I briefly saw some of the other films and they looked very beautiful.

UNIJAPAN will present Burning Hearts, along with the other films, at FILMART Hong Kong and a trades show at the Berlin Film Festival.

バーニング ハーツ Photos

Last weekend Beaufort shot a new short film called バーニング ハーツ/ which, in English, is Burning Hearts.

It will be finished just before the New Year, but in the meantime, stunt team BOS has been posting some behind the scenes photos. The leader of BOS, Hirokazu Iwakami, is seen here in red. The character in the top left hand corner is Hidetaka Ichiyama. He plays a taxi driver who must fight Hirokazu and his henchmen at the end of the film in a huge one-take 3 minute fight scene inspired by Final Fight and Streets of Rage.

See more photos on their blog.

Built On Some Wish

Since the Pia Film Festival, UNIJAPAN have decided to sponsor Beaufort in the making of a short film to be shot in Japan.

We have decided to collaborate once more with B.O.S., the Japanese stunt team whose suits, stunts and choreography featured in our music video for Bag Raider’s FUN PUNCH.

Incidentally, Sato from B.O.S. also played the role of a lecherous Yakuza in GIRL CRAZY GO!

B.O.S. have started their own studio in Tokyo where residents can take martial arts, stunt-work and exercise classes for young and old:

http://studio-bos.com/

Outside the B.O.S. studio for a production meeting. What lies in the darkness?

I think it’s heartache and martial arts.

JOSEPH CAMPBELL

“When a growing girl becomes aware of the pleasing effect that her blossoming womanhood is beginning to have upon others and takes the credit for this to her own ego, she has already gone a little crazy. She has misplaced her identification.”

-Joseph Campbell, MYTHS TO LIVE BY