June 3, 2004
10:24am Thursday

I WILL BE HERE UNTIL I DROWN

I'm totally late for work, but here I am, hanging around, doing this. I guess that tells you how much I want to go. And in case that's confusing because in an earlier entry I said I'm working at home, sometimes I have to go to my boss's house to do what I do. This week it's Jarmusch's Coffee & Cigarettes, which is the most pretentious art-school film I've ever seen. How did he get it distributed? Because he's Jarmusch? I like how the footage from the eighties is done in his signature style -- plop the camera down and let the actors act, very few cuts. Then the stuff from 2003 is like cut, cut, cut. And he's trying to be funny and it's not working and it's just a mess.

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After all the kindness iFilm has extended to me by hosting my film for free, bumping it to a premium selection -- they're now hammmering nails in my moviemaking coffin. They've made it so you have to pay to watch it and also so it doesn't seem to be viewable in Quicktime anymore. This is killing me, as it should be getting hundreds of hits a day where it is but since it now seems to be pay-only nobody's watching. Oy. And do they answer emails? Nah. Who's got time?

Also, I started poking around short film festival websites to see if it'd be feasible and fun to enter it into a few, and I started fixating on the Palm Springs International Shorts Film Festival. But then I noticed two things: they don't accept films that have been previously screened on the internet, and they only accept shorts shot on film or transferred to film. Now I know there are purists out there, but for an international film festival? Come on, it's 2004, get a digital projector already.