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Saturday, April 21, 2007

Left Field Films

With the addition of the Lonelygirl15 series and several more odd entries to our online film festival, we have been receiving E-Mails lately asking us if we have lost our collective minds. The answer, of course, is no. Those who are asking these questions should instead ask themselves what the definition of film is to them.
You see, there is no concrete definition to what a film is or what a film could be. Those who think that they know all there is to film and what the definition of film is really need to sit down and rethink what they think they know. The definition of film is hardly black and white. It comes down to personal preferences and opinions, and it is safe to say that if you will sit down and watch it, and it keeps your interest, then it can be considered to be a film regardless of the format or the method of delivery.
Our online film festival, now just over twelve weeks old, is still getting underway and is now starting to take us all in directions that we never could have foreseen. Some of these films are creative works that you could never see in any conventional film festival event, and the flexibility of what we have created and the showing of diverse formats of film and entertainment is not only remarkable, but it is truly exciting.
We ask you to keep an open mind, and to explore the potential and the possibilities of film as a means of entertaining and well as informing. A friend of ours remarked that he watched an episode of Lonelygirl and that he thought that it sucked. While it is true that some episodes are better than others, you really need to watch more than one episode and keep an open mind with this online film series, which is in a video blog format. While we have mixed feeling ourselves about the production quality of certain episodes and the weird direction that the series has taken as far as the story (I watched a nearly current episode lately where Bree is drugged and undergoes psychological torture by the cult that her family belongs too- I think- this series is definitely out there compared to the first episodic/ expositional arc), when it works it works quite well, and some things that are done are quite simply brilliant. As for myself, I find the potential of the format to be more exciting than anything else. It used to be that indy filmmakers would spend large amount of time and resources on long feature films, putting themselves into debt while hoping to land a distribution deal. As we explored in my last opinion post, Spreading the Risk, this way of making films belongs in the past.
Yes, we are going to be adding some weird things to our online film festival. If you don’t like it, you can get over it. If you don’t like it, you simply don’t have to watch and can watch something else that we are showing. I, for one, hope that all of you will have an open mind and some of the weird things from what most consider to be left field will make you think and inspire you. You will, I am sure, be inspired, and many of you will open your minds to take your work, your art, in entirely new directions. Those that don’t, I suspect, will be too busy inconveniencing themselves by wasting the time of driving to some conventional film festival and falling asleep when you are forced to watch what you don’t like along with what you are into, as well as watching films that are put together in the same boring ways that they have been since filmmaking began. It is, after all, your choice whether you want to remain in the past or want to join us in the present.
Prediction? Not wanting to stray into left field (hee hee - total punnage) from the subject of this opinion post, I do have one. I wouldn’t be surprised if our online film festival gives these film festival events a run for their money in the Tampa Bay market in the next year. More filmmakers are waking up and are posting their films online, and soon our online film festival will have more advantages than drawbacks compared to the annual and monthly events. This makes me wonder what some of these event organizers and aging filmmakers are thinking about all of this. You know what? It doesn’t matter what they think. Things are changing regardless of if they accept them or not, and we are in the position where we do not need to be accepted by anyone.
Some think that some new type of film festival event is going to come along and make annual events like the Gasparilla Film Festival or monthly events like the Tampa Film Review obsolete. Perhaps that will happen (and it is sorely needed), but I have another idea. Wouldn’t it be cool if the real threat is the Tampa Bay Film online film festival? Worth considering, and to those who are into the politics and the pretentious film festival events, worth losing some sleep over. Change may no longer be coming. The change may already be here.

Lauren Moss
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