Comments on: What Defines An Event? 10 Thoughts On Transforming Small to LARGE

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By: Matthew Melucci

Matthew Melucci — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 06:40:40 +0000

Bravo, Ted! Bravo!

By: Bob Hammel

Bob Hammel — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:21:59 +0000

Films as events make sense and create a whole new level of experience. But yes, the audience has to be engaged. If the event is theater, it only happens once and is therefore special. Seeing the film is not the event, but the community experience it brings to people is — that is the one time thing. Film is becoming “community film” Just like community theater — a group of people get together, and put on a show, and invite their friends. Some dedicated and talented and lucky people move on to money making, compromised, gigs — the rest have the opportunity to create, enjoy the community they make, and work their day jobs. The system gives the lucky ones the chance at the big time (whatever that is), the rest get to do something they love.

I don’t want an audience on a film shoot. As an actor I am incredibility bored waiting. As a director/producer I need to make the movie and not create an amusement park for an audience. If you want to participate fine, if you want to watch, then you need a life.

By: JeanDodge

JeanDodge — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:37:24 +0000

Congrats, Ted. You have just listed all the attributes of street theater at a protest rally.

Or, yes, a Sex Pistols show, which, last time I looked wasn't really possible anymore. The next time i want to see something transgressive I'll bring a roll of quarters to the Lusty Lady where the workers are unionized.

But yes, that is the challenge. I'd like to see Rooftop cinema in Williamsburg or attend the Cinefamily in LA once a month and see a movie made with love and care from our own rising from the ashes indie community. But that presupposes someone can scrape by a living on what is split at the door on a microcinema economy level, which is fine if you don't actually want healthcare or a family, or require more than one shopping cart to live out of, or needlessly hang on to that second suitcase of belongings, etc.

Perhaps the "event" everyone is invited to is the film shoot itself, somehow, if not in person then in a virtual manner. What's good about that is that I can see for myself which movies are going to be worth attending - I'm growing weary of supporting mumblecore simply because I believe in DIY ethos. Show me a movie with the moxie of D. Boon and i will get in the van.

By: pangofilms

pangofilms — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:21:36 +0000

Doesn't a theatrical release to some extent make a film an event? Even in the competitive environment of two or three years ago, a film that got into even one theater in NY or LA got attention, or at least a review, in the media that it wouldn't have gotten otherwise. I mean, a theatrical release is still rare enough to qualify as an event for a small film. And it gets attention because of it. Because it's exciting when a small film gets attention like that, and, of course, even more exciting when an audience reacts.

By: pangofilms

pangofilms — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:30:33 +0000

Excellent ideas. Makes me think of Slumdog Millionaire.

I was listening to a Peter Jackson interview yesterday and he was asked about watching movies on ipods, etc. He said that DVD's and ipod viewing are a sort of souvenir of the event of actually watching the films in theaters, in the same way you see the Empire State Building, and then you bring home a postcard of it and put it on your wall. He was talking about big movies, but I think it's always been true about movies since VHS has been around.

I think that films need to be visual to separate themselves from today's handheld world. Style is a big part of what makes a film individual.