NYC playwright, Zayd Dohrn’s, Long Way Go Down will premier tomorrow evening, May 28, 2010, at Kitchen Dog Theater in Dallas.

I photographed Dohrn for TheaterJones.com at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary gallery this morning. We made the photo in the gallery space because I wanted a photo of the playwright that had a bit of mood and mystery to it. The shadow behind him is cast by the sculpture “The Way Home” a foam sheet/mixed media piece by artist Kana Harada, whose work is currently on display in the gallery. Harada’s intricate piece dominates the space and it provided a perfect gobo for this shot.

To create the shadow, I lit the sculpture with an SB 600 and green gel off camera right. I wanted the shadow to spill across the white gallery wall behind the subject. Dohrn was lit with an SB 900 in a 15 x 15 softbox, camera left.

Dohrn, 33, is the son of William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, members of the ’70s radical movement Weather Underground.

This and other images from The Robert Hart Studio are available in my online archive:

Friday night featured an outdoor screening, on an inflatable screen, at El Cosmico of “The Athlete, a film by Davey Frankel and Rasseleas Lakew.

Marfa Film Festival participants gather at The Filling Station, sponsored by Cafe Bustelo.

This and other images from The Robert Hart Studio are available, here, in my searchable online archive:

Actress and executive producer, America Ferrera, was in Marfa today to promote her latest film, The Dry Land, an intense and riveting drama that explores one American soldier’s return from Iraq and his struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Ferrera teamed up with filmmaker Ryan Piers Williams, as both leading lady and executive producer. She portrays the soldier’s wife.

Ferrera and Williams paused for photographs at the Marfa pavillion shortly before their interview with Marfa Public Radio. This and other images from the Marfa Film Festival are available through ZUMAPress.com

This and other images from The Robert Hart Studio are available, here, in my searchable online archive:

The third annual Marfa Film Festival got underway yesterday evening to the sound of Cinco-appropriate mariachis, two excellent Mexico-centric films and plenty of Patron and New Belgium libations. Post-film viewing, rock music played into the night, but not far into the night as Presidio County sherrif’s deputies showed up in force–I counted five officers–two hours before the midnight curfew. I suppose you gotta keep a close eye on these artist-types. You never know when they’re likely to go all minimalist on your ass.

Despite the chilling effect of Presidio County’s finest, the crowd kept their chill and dispersed into the night.

Marfa Film Festival founder/director, Robin Lambaria, kicked off the third annual festival Wednesday afternoon at the Crowley Theater.

This and other images from The Robert Hart Studio are available, here, in my searchable online archive:

The Marfa Film Festival kicks off this evening at 5:30 p.m., at Marfa’s Crowley Theater with Soy Mi Madre, a film by Phil Collins, no, not THAT Phil Collins. It wraps up Sunday evening with the North America premiere of Red Shirley, directed by Lou Reed, yes, THAT Lou Reed and renowned photographer Ralph Gibson.

Then it’s the opening night party from 9:30 p.m., till midnight with Valiente and Mexicans at Night.

El Paisano is filling up and for the first time, at least on one of my trips, Marfa is transformed to into a bustle of activity.

I met Boyd for drinks last evening at Padre’s and we’re going to get a portrait of him shot this week. Fueled by martinis, a buck cheaper than El Paisano’s, we hatched a plan–I remember most of it.

The wildflowers are fixin’ to explode here, according to Bob Dillard, publisher of the Jeff Davis County Mountain Dispatch, who tells me it snowed at his rianch just four days ago. I’m on wildflower watch for Griffis Smith, photo director, at Texas Highways magazine.

More photos after tonight’s viewings/party.