December 06, 2005
Alejandro Adams of Braintrust DV coordinated a roundtable of ten essays on the subject of the new video iPod; if you want to see what Matt Clayfield, Nick Rhombes, Mark Cuban, Evan Mather, Chuck Tryon, myself and a few other notable theorists and/or filmmakers all have to say about the device and its implications, click here. It's very much worth reading; of course, about half of my piece was rendered semi-redundant by the latest development with Apple's MacMini last week, but, all things considered, that's sort of apropos.
Also very much worth reading: this Wired interview with Steven Soderbergh, in which he says:
Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film. I often do very radical cuts of my own films just to experiment, shake things up, and see if anything comes of it. I think it would be really interesting to have a movie out in release and then, just a few weeks later say, "Here's version 2.0, recut, rescored." The other version is still out there - people can see either or both. For instance, right now I know I could do two very different versions of The Good German.
I've talked about this briefly in the past, in relation to The Outlaw Son and my (somewhat hyperbolic but nonetheless sincere) claim that it would never be seen the same way twice. That was part of my grant proposal, and I'm sticking to it. I love the idea of releasing multiple cuts of a film; it could be seen as an indecisive indulgence, but I see it more as an open embrace and exploitation of the very subjectivity of the medium. It's extremely exciting.
Posted by David Lowery at December 6, 2005 05:47 PM
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those articles were great.thanks for the link
Posted by: brad at December 8, 2005 11:15 PM