ARTHOUSE FILM NEWS - Cosmic Disco Detective Rene at Facets, Chicago 11/29/23

Check out LA Weekly's article on the success of the DIY rock club The Smell , and the community & approach that makes it happen (including launching careers of several bands - for those folks who are deeply into making $s/a living with their art/entertainment work). We can do this kind of thing in NYC w/ DIY film y'all. See my post re: the new NYC DIY Filmmaker Co-op idea . Thanks Jerry Brewington from Hollywood Is Talking blog for the LA Weekly link! - Sujewa

Got a few things to finish up over the next few days (final prep stuff for upcoming Feb events - 2/13 screening of DNO , IFBRT premiere on 2/17 ), so, probably no blogging 'till Mon 2/9. Be back on the DIY indie film news & publicity front again starting with the Obenson Report podcast interview on Mon & then notes re: it here on the blog following the interview. One last thing, IFBRT 9 min. clip views on YouTube are now past the 2500 mark - most excellent. - Sujewa

Get the link to a recent (9/08) Baltimore City Paper profile of D.I.Y indie filmmaker/self-distributor Kelley Baker at my latest blog Beyond Mumblecore .

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Google Alerts alerted me to the existence of a new blog, called Resist Edison Trust . From the intro: "During the 1900's Thomas Edison was in control of a trust called the Motion Picture Patents Company or "Edison Trust". Founded in December of 1908, the trust had control over all major film companies, the leading distributor, and the biggest supplier of raw film. At the time of the formation of MPPC, Thomas Edison owned most of the patents relating to motion pictures. The MPPC strongly enforced it's patents, and as a result many filmmakers responded by building their own cameras and moving to California in order to resist the Edison trust." More at Resist Edison Trust (& thanks for the IFBRT mention RET :). - Sujewa

Back in the early 1990's, long before I spent most of my free time on the web, I would go check out a lot of indie & punk bands in the DC area. These bands, for the most part, were strictly DIY businesses/operations - the bands made the music, self-financed tours & CD releases or worked with small labels started & run by fans of the music, and generally got their art making & distribution business done outside of the bigger, more commercial music industry. However, at these indie rock shows, there were usually dozens to hundreds (sometimes thousands) of audience members. People who paid to be at the event & check out the bands. How did these bands get the word out about themselves? They relied on fanzines - DIY publications written & distributed by fans of DIY music making. Some DIY record labels - such as Dischord, Simple Machines, etc. would (as I understood it) buy ads in 'zines in order to both support the 'zines & to get the word ou

I have to take a tiny break from my 2 Do list to pass along this link - a discussion about Black film festivals at The Obenson Report . From the post : "And instead of naming those that I grew to find unworthy of my time and money, I'll instead give praise to those that I have attended at least once, that have given me reasons to want to continue going back: 1. The Harlem Film Festival (NYC), which used to be curated by Michelle Materre; I'm not sure if she still is. But when she did, those years that I attended were memorable and worthwhile. Not one of the biggest of the bunch; but you're guaranteed a professional, intimate, thoughtful experience. 2. The African Diaspora Film Festival (it's a traveling festival). Run by husband and wife team, Diarah N’Daw-Spech and her husband Reinaldo Barroso-Spech. You're certain to find an eclectic group of films at this festival, covering the entire African Diaspora, hence it's title. They've been doing it

About Rise : "Each film plays as a chapter recounting the creation of humankind in a fantastical manner. The first chapter Fallen, depicts an Eve-like character’s introduction to technology and the divine consequences of this meeting. The second chapter, Rise, resumes many years later, long after the female character's first meeting with technology. Here she has transformed from her original Eve-like state of naked innocence into a clothed mysterious being. In place of her original naivety our character now holds a cryptic knowledge of the natural world often feared and marked as witchcraft. As a result of this transformation the two characters of machine and human have switched their roles of protagonist and antagonist. Again their meeting results in a dramatic shift in the environment. The cause and ramifications of this event remains an ambiguous mystery. Is the flood a positive transformation of this world, or a tragic loss of the original environment?" More here

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