Friday Feb 11 7:30
DANGEROUS VISIONS - Shorts program
Time’s Up Eve (US, Patrick Rea)
Cosa Feas (Nasty Stuff) (Mexioc, Isaac Ezban)
Zombie Radio (US, Lawrence Gray)
Planes de Futuro (Spain, Ivan A Solas)
Solita (US, Steven Fine)
If you managed to be at the Boston Sci Fi Festival you might have caught my short film "Zombie Radio". On the other hand you might not have. Let's put it this way, I only discovered when it was on when I went to check the web site the monday after it had been shown.
I wonder what people actually saw? I mean, I merely submitted a low resolution version via the internet and expected them to ask me for a high res version for projection. But nobody asked and so what was projected was essentially the youtube quality video. Now, on a three inch screen it's not a bad looking format, but blown up to a full cinema screen I cannot help feeling it must have lost some of its allure.
And did anyone actually win anything at the Festival? Was there a red carpet moment? Did William Shatner turn up or Johnny Drama in a Viking suit? I have no idea. Was it possible that my short was merely what was available and they showed whatever turned up to an audience of ten unconscious drunks?
I would have liked a sense of occasion, an excuse to break out a bottle of bubbly, and brag about it to my friends, but the moment has passed without fanfare, without that moment of tension before they announce the Best Of The Bunch Award, and then the party where one hits on the actresses, hands them one's card, and says things like how they impressed me and I must write a script just for them. Then I'd ask them how they felt about nudity. There are precious few moments in an artists life when one can strut around feeling good about oneself and bullshitting to a crowd who aren't going to call you out on it because they too have suspended their disbelief. What else are festivals for?
As it was, my little run there had all the excitement of posting another clip on YouTube.