Editor of Screen International Michael Gubbins said on October 26th 2007 at Power to the Pixel:

“The world as it is, is broke. The distribution mechanism that we are seeing right now as far as independent film is concerned makes no sense what so ever. And I think what we’re now seeing is a period of waking up to the idea that theres nothing to go back to and only really begginging to engage in what possibly may come. That makes for very disturbing and very exciting times.”

That’s reasonably well put.

Visit arincrumley.com to find this complete text if the site you are reading on cuts it off: Liz and her attractive British crew did an amazing job organizing and promoting this event. However, in the future I prefer to be a part of doing more then just speaking. I want to get something done. Either a hands on workshop or more importantly some sessions involving a room full of programmers and problem solvers to develop the new film industry. Why should we let the old film industry try to re-invent it’s self when it’s currently wide open for quicker fresh minds to start something from scratch that is way better. The objectives next time will be to create universal publishing standard like RSS but for film projects and containing way more meta data about the film. And then come up with a universal social networking protocol that can be adopted by film sites. The core principal of a new social network standard will be that you store your personal data rather then Facebook and MySpace and sites like Amazon pull the review you wrote about a film from your personally stored blog post review of that film. Then come up with a universal event standard so anyone can create a directory of screenings. Then start publishing plans for how people can create cheap micro cinema systems for 1 to 5 grand depending on their budget that get them all the digital films using this system. Then create a road map for how this system can eventually take over and be the system that even mainstream content owners will want to be a part of. RSS took very little time to get the name of “podcasting” and now even major media companies use it even though it defies their methodology. So it can be done. Then publish plans for how people can create subscription models for internet deliver of content. That way people all over the world can create a local service that sends money back to creators. It’s all too much to detail here. But watch all of these power to the pixel presentations that will follow and keep the vision of the future in mind through out. You’ll see how some get it more then others and then take these ideas out into the world and you’ll once again see some getting it immediately and others wanting to argue things can’t change. Form alliances with those who think this is possible and that things can change.

Susan and I are getting on a train to come to Montreal to screen our film at Ex-Centris and do a post screening discussion. We are also doing a panel at SAT about the future of cinema. Get details about the screening here. More info on Four Eyed Monsters here. Help us out of debt with-out spending any money here. Track the media revolution here. Search iTunes for “Ratatat” for the song “El Pico” if it’s stuck in your head.

We are screening Four Eyed Monsters in Montreal this Saturday (10-19-07) and participating in a panel about the future of cinema at this film festival in Montreal called Nouveau Cinema. They are doing a video blog while the festival happens and here is their recent post about the movie “Young People Fucking”.

Four Eyed Monsters screened at Gallery Gachet in Vancouver Canada on September 29th. This is a video of the discussion that went down afterwards. Thanks to pitchpage.com for filming the talk.
LINKS:
http://www.foureyedmonsters.com
http://www.arincrumley.com
http://www.viff.org
http://www.gachet.org
http://www.pitchpage.com

The Vancouver international film festival invited Lance Weiler and I to come out and be a part of their Forum sessions. This one was called Filmmakers Seize Control.
LINKS:

http://Viff.org

http://FourEyedMonsters.com

http://HeadTramaMovie.com

http://thelastbroadcast.com

http://www.arincrumley.com

http://www.lanceweiler.com