Archive - Oct 18, 2012

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Web Mini-Series Launches Today! Webisode One!

Submitted by steev on 18. October 2012 - 9:26.

Today is the first time the general public is able to see any of Truth On The Line. Enjoy this first installment of the web mini-series.

In this webisode, we introduce Stan (Steve McKee) and Maria (Burgundi Phoenix), the anchorpeople of a TV program called News On The Line. As you'll see, Stan's unhappy with the way the show is done and wants to update it.

For the next 3 weeks we'll bring you the rest of the series, every Monday and Thursday. Watch this site, or come back to the Truth On The Line Vimeo album.

If you like what you see and want to help the writer/director, Steev Hise, continue to make cool stuff, why not try "tipping" him? It's easy, just Click through to the Vimeo page for this webisode and then click the "tip this video" button. Thanks for your support!

You'll Like This Film Because You're in It: The Be Kind Rewind Protocol

Submitted by steev on 18. October 2012 - 8:36.

You'll Like This Film Because You're in It: The Be Kind Rewind Protocol
author: Michel Gondry
name: Steev
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at: 2012/10/18
date added: 2012/10/18
shelves: wishlist, filmmaking, fun
review:
As a filmmaker and someone who has participated in several collaborative "fast movie" projects in which amateurs get together and democratically craft a film really quickly, this book was a great confirmation of some basic dreams and desires and experiences that I've had. Michel Gondry is a genius, dreamer, and auteur, as we all know from his videos and films, but surprise-surprise, he's also an anti-corporate, anti-capitalist, utopian collectivist, and he's come up with a great, simple system for putting these ideals into a system of making little films that friends and neighbors can participate in. As he keeps repeating in the book, this is not a book about how to make films. Rather it's a book about how to bring back an aspect of community life that has largely disappeared with the advent of mass-mediated consumerism. I hope to one day witness and take part in the protocol that he lays out here, and if I do, hopefully I can restrain my professionalist and authoritarian urges, and just be part of a group, making something together and without preconceived plans, and without corporate sponsors.