Some thoughts about the 6 films we saw during the Gone Fishing seminar last week, starting with the obvious.
Gone Fishing
Gone Fishing is, in all honesty, a very good film and I really am not just saying that because it was the focus of the seminar or because Chris Jones is a nice guy. I hadn’t [...]
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Gone Fishing Seminar: The Short Films
God-Emperor of City 17
I’ve been holding back from writing this post for a couple of weeks.
If you pick through the fetid archives of this blog, you’ll find circumstantial evidence that I am a big fan of the Half-Life series of games produced by Valve Software. Recently a short film got released onto the intertubes called “Escape From City [...]
The Future (Onwards and Upwards)
An extremely exhausting, unexpectedly film related weekend.
After going to the IMAX to see a midnight screening of Blade Runner and subsequenly getting about four hours sleep, I spent Saturday at Ealing Studios attending the second Gone Fishing Masterclass seminar given by Chris Jones (author of “Guerilla Filmmaker’s Handbook”). Chris was the writer, director and creative [...]
Atomic Comedy: Whatever happened to AtomFilms?
I had a bit of a falling out with AtomFilms last year (maybe the year before) because they refused to display a video of “A Very English Fairy Tale” because of license infringement on the soundtrack. In fact I was using the music under a Creative Commons license and I also emailed the composer for [...]