Blue Moon Over Memphis
- Documentary (G)
Director: Brian Higdon
Country: Japan
Length: 3min 21s
Language: Japanese, English
Subtitle: English, Japanese
Completion: 2016
Blue Moon Over Memphis is a short promotional documentary about Theatre Nohgaku’s new English-language Noh play about Elvis Presley.
Director: Brian Higdon
Producer: Theatre Nohgaku/Brian Higdon
DP: JR Lipartito
Editor: Jim Ballard
Cast: Richard Emmert, John Oglevee, Kinue Oshima
Director's message:
Theatre Nohgaku is an international group dedicated to performing English-language plays in the style of Japanese traditional Noh. Their next play, Blue Moon Over Memphis, tells the story of a woman who visits Elvis Presley's Graceland home and encounters the ghost of Elvis. The documentary promotes Blue Moon Over Memphis to potential audiences in Japan and internationally. The guiding message of the film is that Theatre Nohgaku is a group that is breaking out and doing something audiences have never seen before.
About the filmmaker
Brian Higdon is a writer, director, and producer of promotional videos, documentaries, and narrative entertainment in various forms. His work has aired on PBS (America), garnered several awards, and screened at numerous festivals including South By Southwest, Telluride, Slamdance, Sidewalk, and Palm Springs Short Film Festival. Brian is a 2003 B.A. graduate from Claremont McKenna College and a 2009 M.F.A. graduate from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). He splits his time residing in both New York and Tokyo.
