Garrett Bradley

1 sketch, 7 claims, and 2 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

The Big Picture: 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular (guest)

Garrett Bradley, director of Time, builds films from real relationships rather than hunting stories, prizes lived-in community over pure art-making, and cites the LA Rebellion and Billy Woodberry as tradition. Her last great things: rewatching Heat and Homecoming season 2.

Stances

  • Documentaries should honor the present moment
  • A mainstream release matters for an issue that is a majority issue
  • Filmmaking facilitates contradictory thought

Humor: Warm and low-key; laughs at her own nerves shipping unbacked tapes.

In their words

  • “every film I've made, every project I've made, um, has come out of real relationships I have with people” (1:51:31)
  • “I rewatched Heat” (2:07:39)
  • “This is a majority issue.” (2:04:28)

Their shows' recurring bits

Running bits, not opinions; a critic read aloud is cited, not present.

The Big Picture

Their claims

Showing 1–7 of 7 claims.

  1. lineage (lineage): Time → Billy Woodberry. Bradley's grad-school proximity to Woodberry and the LA Rebellion shaped her confidence and approach.
    “incredible movement of the LA rebellion, which was so inherently about thinking about adapting neo-realism”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:48:32 · Garrett Bradley (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Time → Alone (Garrett Bradley short). Time began as a sister film to Bradley's short Alone, continuing its conversation about incarceration.
    “making a sister film”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:50:37 · Garrett Bradley (0.85 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): Time → Gabe Rhodes. Bradley and editor Gabe Rhodes watched about 100 hours of the family's archive and found the film.
    “we watched through about 100 hours of material”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:55:21 · Garrett Bradley (0.90 sure it was them)
  4. craft (craft): Time → Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbru. Time's score is Emahoy's 1963 album, found on YouTube; the film pairs two women across time.
    “she's still living and she's a 96 year old, Ethiopian nun”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 2:00:21 · Garrett Bradley (0.90 sure it was them)
  5. industry (industry): Time → Ted Hope. Bradley asked Ted Hope that Amazon release Time as a mainstream, majority issue.
    “This is a majority issue.”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 2:04:28 · Garrett Bradley (0.90 sure it was them)
  6. programming (programming): Heat → Time. Bradley's last great thing was rewatching Heat, which prompted talk of the 90s.
    “I rewatched Heat”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 2:07:39 · Garrett Bradley (0.90 sure it was them)
  7. craft (craft): Homecoming (season 2) → Emile Mosseri. Bradley praises the second season's cinematography, music, performances and casting.
    “Emil Masari did the music”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 2:08:13 · Garrett Bradley (0.80 sure it was them)

Their fun items

Showing 1–2 of 2 fun items.

  1. fun, about Time: Fox Rich's archive: Bradley shipped her un-backed-up bag of tapes to be transcoded, terrified.
    “giving me this bag that was not backed up”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:56:43 · Garrett Bradley (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Time: The score is Emahoy's 1963 album, recorded to raise money for an orphanage, found through a YouTube playlist of 1970s Ethiopian music.
    “recorded this album in 1963 for the purpose of raising money for an orphanage”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 2:00:38 · Garrett Bradley (0.90 sure it was them)