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steve hyde wrote: That wild-eyed psychoanalyst Zizek

Get a copy of Zizek's Parallax View, I'm half way through it. Great stuff.

MovieStuff wrote: Oh, dude! Is it your birthday? Hey, we can disagree across the board but I can still wish you a happy birthday. Have fun.

Cheers! I'm at work : (

Hi All The Citizen Super-8 project is getting really excited. Ive seen stills from the shoots and some of the films look really brilliant, a big step up in production values from Super-8 Cities!! When all the films are put together CS8 will tell the story of citizenship from many angles. But what I ...

mattias wrote:[
politics suck anyway. whether somebody's depressed or happy and the inner dynamics of that is much more interesting than whether they are rich or poor, black or white, or live in peace or war.

I think the two are probably not mutually exclusive...thanks for the congrats

Film making always expresses a bias or position. Sometimes in a very overt way (michael moore - campaigning filmmaking). Great filmmakers do not want to just show to people they want to affect people. Its not about money for the greats.

He made it, he filmed, edited, shown it, that's the best prize a director should have Perfect. That's exactly right. Roger Er, no, for a political filmmaker, political change and discourse is what is aimed for. All this about merely showing a film ignores every single conceivable issue facing film ...

absolutely. I like the verb: "infantalisation". It conjures up the image of independent democratic citizens devolving from critically engaged self-empowered actants to dependent *child like* passive consumers whose every day lives serve Power. Yes, but I also mean it in a quite literal wa...

Bucking the System:

Take your film on tour to cinemas across the country. Hit the phones, universities, online forums, organizations - find your audience.

Buddy up to the managers and programmers of all the art house cinemas and screens.

Get to know critics and other influential people.

That he felt a need to make a distinction regarding the US when there is obviously no distinction to be made only reinforces the intent. Sorry, I missed this point. There is a big difference with the US in that it is an introverted, global superpower. It projects its might throughout the world and ...

[quote="MovieStuff"] There is more to education than books and more to life than the assumptions with which you frame your misplaced and ill-serving conceit. For someone that aspires to be a director, you sure know very little about people and the importance of tact. [quote] And to finish ...

That he felt a need to make a distinction regarding the US when there is obviously no distinction to be made only reinforces the intent. Sorry, I missed this point. There is a big difference with the US in that it is an introverted, global superpower. It projects its might throughout the world and ...

You started this thread complaining about the inherent unfairness of a free market place that prevents a good documentary from being successful. Yet you maintain that such a free market was founded on the ideal of fair trade! Forgive me for being a pompous ass, but the point Steve is trying to make...

...now I see the inflammatory comment was about geography. Surely the U.S. isn't least educated. Saying that is bound to start a fire. I overlooked that when I made the reply to Roger... Yeah, inflammatory when people are predisposed to reflex national identification and defensiveness. I would say ...

Roger, Your attack on the language Nathan chooses to use to express himself speaks volumes about you. He is British you are Texan. Get used to living in a world where people speak differently than you do!!! (the point of this thread) Nathan's points are very clearly argued and well worth considerat...

Don't produce anything, you then are unable to achieve sustainable growth, and will eventually collapse. I did a nice essay on the folley of the "service based economy" and the eventual economic collapse that would follow. The British government's strategy seems to be based on the assumpt...