Le MicrocEnema

I wholeheartedly support this sort of decentralized, community based, DIY idea of film. If mainstream film is the lowest common denominator, then art film is often on stilts. Academia, cinerati, the intellectual elite have the means to stamp their favorites with a merit badge. This is the ticket to get on the stilt. Look at them up there. Their almost as tall as the giant blobs of money that explode through Mayfaire and whatnot. Microcinema are shrubs (youtube is grass). Fertile bushes that aren't so proud. Many of them are free, free, free. Thats great great great. We fest is $1 and that actually might be even better.

I've wanted to start little film events for me and my friends sometime. Hopefully when I get a house next year there will be high enough ceilings and I can get a projector and have one or two screenings a week. Probably just movies that I will want to watch. They tend to be hits among my specific demographic niche. Magnolia, Holy Mountain, Gummo, and Cronenberg's Crash are recent living room hits. I foresee a Rush Hour marathon. Russ and Dylan have people over every thurday for Its always sunny in philadelphia which is MicroTV i guess.

My career in film worries my. My concern is that I am not at present a strident individual charging straight at a goal. I'm more of a meanderer. I realize I am more of a community guy. I like having control of my own things, but i also like working on others things, acting and whatnot, not having the stressful job of organization. Austin or New York sound great for the kind of organic creative community work I would like to do. Getting more involved in the film community will help more than working on hollywood productions. I'm not going to work up from boom micist to director, I'm just going to make my own films but in the meantime there needs to some money making. Microcinema, or at least alternative theaters or film festivals seem like perfect venues for this, the perfect environment with the perfect fertilizer.