In 2010, I was putting together the movie script for my grandfather’s documentary film, and it started off as an investigation where I researched travel documents and traveled around to the places he went to speak with people who knew him. As time went on, my film morphed from a simple biography into a documentary fairytale, released in 2020…
Excerpt on making the documentary-fairytale film about my grandfather. He was the stage performer Mandrake the Magician who believed in philosophy and not the supernatural…
On making the documentary-fairytale film about my grandfather. He was the stage performer Mandrake the Magician who referenced Alice in Wonderland on stage... and so I also brought in the fairytale of Alice in Wonderland to my film. From my Cross-Interview with Michael the Magician from Macau…
From my Cross-Interview with Michael the Magician from Macau. Creating the documentary-fairytale genre as a study in imagination and freedom…
In 1948, the “Gossip in Gotham” column announced the divorce of the real life Mandrake the Magician and his first wife & stage assistant, Princess Narda.... and so I worked it into the documentary-fairytale movie about my grandfather…
Love, Käla
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