(1) Hella world!

Living in Los Angeles it is impossible to avoid the city’s symbiotic relationship with Hollywood. Having moved here from a town where confederate flags still fly from the back of lifted pick-up trucks combined with studying in the country’s most illustrious film program has led me to develop a serious distaste for the hyperpackaged crap-fests that Hollywood has grown content with serving up. They are “ignorizing” the masses and rather than commit myself to that world I plan to investigate possibilities for creative minds wishing to work in film or video outside of the typical industry path.

With the digital revolution in full swing, filmmakers are no longer required to be slaves to the whims of a studio producer. Sites like Youtube and Revver provide excellent forums for the up and comings with nothing save dreams and webcams. And what with internet piracy at an all time high, people from all walks of life can steal their favorite animation program and produce works of art instantaneously downloadable anywhere across the world. Systems of copyright are undergoing serious reformation as the lines between content consumer and content provider grow thinner and thinner.

Filmmaker and theorist Julio Garcia Espinosa called this shift of power mass cinema, or imperfect cinema. A movement where access to basic equipment is common to society and every inspiration can be followed through. Eventually this will lead to a general understanding of the film making process and the manipulation inherent to cinema will be exposed. On-the-rise generations will be filtering art in a whole new way, and it is important to understand these fundamental changes that are occurring.

Gallery works, concert animations, nomadic film making are just a few examples of the ideas I will explore and there’s no doubt that looking into these worlds will lead me to additional stories, interesting and unique, which I will gladly share with you. Expect artist profiles (or if I get really brave: interviews) from time to time. I can’t promise it will all be cinematic, as I’ve got some other ideas, so here’s hoping that I’m a person with interesting things to say and that you may want to take the time to read them.

“Damn the man, save the empire”