You Don’t Have To Get Into Sundance To Put Your Feature Film On YouTube
During the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, there was much news and blog posting about the festival putting up several feature films that were screening this year on YouTube for rent. After the festival ended and after the rentable films were taken offline, there was similarly much analysis on whether or not this online festival experiment was a failure or not.
However, excluded from all this writing about the Sundance/YouTube partnership, one secret, key fact was left out:
Lots of filmmakers already upload their feature films to YouTube and other video sharing sites for audiences to watch. For free.
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Echo Park Film Center: Mock Up On Mu
Feb. 11
8:00 p.m.
Echo Park Film Center
1200 N. Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd)
Los Angeles, CA
Hosted by: Other Cinema
San Francisco underground filmmaker Craig Baldwin will attend this special screening of his latest magnum opus, the genuinely epic collage narrative Mock Up on Mu.
Mock Up on Mu has more going on in it per square inch than any other film ever made. It is also the most in-depth futuristic history of the weird state of California. L. Ron Hubbard (Damon Packard) is planning to build a resort on the moon called Mu, but to initiate the project he must dispatch Agent C (Michelle Silva) to convince an amnesiac Jack Parsons (Kalman Spelletich) and Lockheed Martin (Stoney Burke) to build a rocket launchpad in Las Vegas.
Christina McPhee: Food Is Power
Embedded above is the video Tesserae-Yellow Tahiti Substation Foods 4 Less by artist Christina McPhee in which images of power stations and supermarkets blend together, yet are also separated by chain-link fences. Although fragments of a natural world can be glimpsed, there is nothing truly natural here, not even the food displayed on the shelves.
New Edition! Frederick C. Wiebel Jr.’s “Edison’s Frankenstein”
Author and film historian Frederick C. Wiebel Jr. has recently reissued a new edition of his book Edison’s Frankenstein, which covers the making of the world’s first horror movie and the efforts to find and restore the film. The book is published by BearManor Media and can be bought at Amazon or directly from the author, as well as other book outlets.
Produced at Thomas Edison’s Bronx-based studio, Frankenstein runs about twelve minutes long and was written and directed by J. Searle Dawley. The film, which you can watch in its entirety below, consists of a couple basic scenes shot on very few sets that focuses more on the drama — actually, more like melodrama — than on the horrific elements of Mary Shelley’s original novel.
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