The past few weeks, I have been busy gathering footage, interviewing, and editing video in preparation for the first entry in the official Dancing Rabbit video blog. The idea is that I will produce videos about life at Dancing Rabbit and topics regarding sustainable living. Each video will have a certain theme or focus, all centered around sustainability and alternative living, whether it be natural building, organic vegetable gardening, biodiesel, solar power, whole foods cooking, or any number of the many things going on at Dancing Rabbit. To open up the series, the first video will be a simple introduction to Dancing Rabbit: what it is, how people live differently here, etc.
There are lots of little ideas floating around my head for future episodes, but for now I must set up an actual home for the blog, and organize distribution of the videos.
A short interview snippet with Daniel Quinn, author of Ishmael, which was the first most personally inspiring book I have read. Not sure when this was conducted, but there are some good chunks of knowledge in there.
It will screen during the so-called Super Secret Stockstock Event on March 10… wherever that may be. I have no clue. But yea, the finalists and grand prize winner will also be announced that day. Hip-hooray.
Just playing around with Vodpod and their neat video widget feature, as seen above… You can check out a bunch of my different shorts all within this self-contained video player, instead of navigating to different pages.
Ok, so I wrapped up my video entry for the 2007 Stockstock Film Festival. (Stockstock provides a bunch of totally random stock footage clips, and it’s your duty to assemble something using only that footage. You can mash it up to your heart’s content and add any kind of audio.) So, this is what I came up with. I might tweak it a bit before officially submitting it, but that’s the gist of it.
Check out my webpage for AMERIKUH, where you can download Quicktime and iPod versions, or view the low quality version.
But yea, I think this short is pretty self-explanatory.
Thanks to PepperSpray Productions, a non-profit independent video collective based in Seattle, the ¡Sí, Se Puede! will appear on their weekly TV show that plays on ten local access channels nationwide. Not really sure where, though. The film will also appear on The Leader, their quarterly compilation DVD publication. PepperSpray also accepted THE IMMORTALITY OF MAN to play on television, and maybe it will appear on their DVD as well. Yahoo.
¡Sí, Se Puede! will also appear on Plum TV, a pretty niche network that caters to a handful of ritzy towns in select areas of the US. Plum TV is putting together hour long blocks of short films from different festivals and whatnot. They got in contact with The Journal of Short Film, where they found SSP and several other films they were interested in screening. I don’t have access to this channel and have no idea when it’s set to play…
And finally, THE IMMORTALITY OF MAN will also be screening on INDIGO TV in New York thanks to a recent partnership with The New York Short Shorts Film Festival (TIOM screened at NYSSFF over the summer). Their show is on channel 9 on the RCN cable network and on channel 33 on the Time Warner cable network, and it runs on Thursday nights from 8:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Synopsis: WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR? chronicles the life and mysterious death of the GM EV1, examining its cultural and economic ripple effects and how they reverberated through the halls of government and big business.
Some good news: ¡Sí, Se Puede! is now featured on The Daily Reel Top 10! The Daily Reel highlights ten new noteworthy online videos each day.
Maybe you’ll consider rating the film. Maybe I’ll like you more if you do.
In other ¡Sí, Se Puede! news, the film will be screening at the Newburyport Documentary Film Festival this weeked, on Sunday, October 1. Looking forward to it.
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Hullo. I am Brian, but I am also called Ziggy. I'm a 24-year-old currently living at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, learning to fulfill my desires to live more sustainably and self-sufficiently. There's a growing need to help shape a more eco-conscious, less destructive, and healthy culture, and I hope to share some of my experiences living in a community that values these qualities on this here blog.
