Mark Peranson is the Editor and Publisher of Cinema Scope, one of the most significant currently published magazines on cinema, and the co-director of La última película (2013), a riff on Dennis Hopper’s The Last Movie (1971) and The American Dreamer (1971), made for DOX:LAB with the inimitable Raya Martin.
Starring filmmaker Alex Ross Perry (The Color Wheel [2011]) and Gabino Rodríguez (Greatest Hits), the film blends documentary and fiction, allusion and deconstruction, and questions on the future of film confronted through a cornucopia of filming formats.
Mark joined us at our studio space at OCAD U’to discuss the intricacies of La última película during the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, where it was one of only two feature films to screen in 35mm.
Our interview with Mark Peranson was conducted in September of 2013 and was one of four feature interviews in the nineteenth monthly issue of The Seventh Art as a “video magazine.” It was released in May 2013 and is part of our TIFF 2013 coverage, along with interviews with Frederick Wiseman, Albert Serra, Corneliu Porumboiu, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Ben Wheatley, Ben Rivers & Ben Russell, Don McKellar, Lukas Moodysson, Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez, João Pedro Rodrigues, Ramon Zürcher, Götz Spielmann, Elina Psikou, Erik Skjoldbjærg, Bruce LaBruce, Aran Hughes & Christina Koutsospyrou, and Frank Pavich.
