Your favorite amateur film
What is your favorite amateur film?
My vote goes to star wreck (www.starwreck.com), mostly because of the effects and the guys actually spent seven years making it.
EDIT: Broken link
Drunk commies deleted
28-01-2006, 20:51
Clerks.
Oh, yer link don't seem to be werkin for me.
Kreitzmoorland
28-01-2006, 20:53
Clerks.
Oh, yer link don't seem to be werkin for me.
There's an extra bracket in the URL, right before the final / - just delete it.
Teh_pantless_hero
28-01-2006, 21:08
Does "Spin" count?
The Gamers (http://gamers.deadgentlemen.com/)
The Sutured Psyche
28-01-2006, 22:59
If you're into documentaries, theres always Frederick Wiseman's "Titicut Follies." It is a look at the conditions of a 1960s institution for mentally ill convicts in Massachusetts. It also holds the distinction of being the only film in the united states to have ever been banned from release for reasons other than obscenity or national security. Until very recently it was virtually unavailable because of a Massachusetts Supreme Court descision which found the film to be an invasion of inmate privacy and ordered it pulled from circulation.
If you're interested, you can search around the internet for it. Wiseman has allowed several people to distribute torrents of the film as long as they are only for private viewing.
Newtsburg
28-01-2006, 23:11
Clerks.
Oh, yer link don't seem to be werkin for me.
I second that!
Cannot think of a name
28-01-2006, 23:17
I believe Alan Berliner's first film was called Nobody which was a bit of a brilliant personal film. He has gone on to make a career out of films about himself.
There was a film I saw by a student while in college that absolutely blew me away. It had three layered images, each different colors. The audience was given glasses that where a tint of a random three colors (like one color 3-D glasses) that would block out all but one image. People in the theater where seeing one of three movies played symultainiously that had a matching soundtrack but entirely different implications because of the images. At one point, the 'audience participation part,' we where asked to clap when we saw clapping. The three different clapping patterns made the audience into a clap ensemble, making a fourth collective rhythm out of the three. The guy was really nice, not a film student and had no idea that he was about to blow our minds (the room full of film students all wanted to go home and burn all our films and stamp "Hack" on our foreheads)
The Doors Corporation
28-01-2006, 23:27
Pi, or The Pirkinning