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Day: February 15, 2009
Come March 28th maybe we should all go to bed a little earlier…
Earth Hour is a great idea. Everyone everywhere on the planet turns off their lights at exactly the same time. More and more people have been participating in this event each year. It started in Sydney, Australia in 2007. 370 cities did it last year. It’s estimated that 50 MILLION people participated in this last year. 377 cities have already signed up for this year.
Now it’s time for you and your family to do the same! Talk to them and see if we can all shut off our lights together. Maybe you can even get your city to do the same. They should have something to get schools to jump into their bowl too.
Check it out. What a great idea. It’s brought to you by the World Wildlife Fund.
Chris Monger, screenwriter, director, artist had this to answer my plea:
I started a reply which turned into a rant which morphed into my history of why Indie Film did not start, but died with sex lies and videotape – and that’s even before I’d started on why Indie Film should also forget the form of the 90 minute theatrical feature. The future is here, we are free to try anything.
And that’s the conclusion I was working towards: There’s nothing to save.
We can’t hang on to what was (and what was often totally imperfect) anymore than we can hang on to newspapers. Regular Film / Studio Film / Indie Film as we know them may limp along for a while, or may even exist like Opera for a long time, but stories / moving images are not going away.
Now’s the time to have fun with them. In the late 60’s early 70’s a lot of Indie Filmmakers (and I’m talking about people who processed their own film, ran their own printers – really Indie!) believed that film was at the same point that painting was at the turn of the 20th Century: Rather than being ruined by photography, painting was liberated into all the isms of the new way of seeing and looking and re-presenting.
So I say, where are the Picassos and Matisses, the people who will throw away the rule book?
