ambulantic

"vlogging", or I like to describe it - people who know nothing about what they're talking about, talking about nothing.

PUBLIC DOMAIN PRIVATE DOMINION 3! The premise is pretty simple. A group of varied filmmakers, from all kinds of backgrounds will be given a selection of public domain films from which they must make their own film. They are permitted to alter the footage in any way possible, but cannot use any images that do not come from the source material. Audio is left completely to their discretion but may not contain copyrighted sound, which they do not have permission to use. The screening will be held at Pittsburgh Filmmakers on Sunday, Nov 2nd 2008. All submissions must be in our hands by Monday, Oct 27th. Any filmmaker who has previously screened at PDPD may submit without fee. Submission fees will be waved for any filmmaker based in PGH. We split a portion of the admission money among all competing filmmakers, so selected films will recoup at least their submission fee. Your film must be between 2 and 7 minutes in length. Be as creative as possible. We've had pseudo-docs, music videos, anti-safety films, pornography spoofs, super depressing narratives, comedic gems, and all kinds of other stuff we don't know how to describe. Please make sure you adhere to the rules. Disqualifying you if you fail to do so will make us weepy. Please email ambulantic@gmail.com to alert us of your intention to participate. We will screen all entries if possible. If we receive too many, we will cut the ones we don't like.

The source films this year:
http://www.archive.org/details/DIA40
http://www.archive.org/details/twenty-five_hour_day
http://www.archive.org/details/RCA16mmS1958

Our short doc on the revitalization attempts for downtown Pittsburgh http://www.current.com/items/86564031_steel_cities_of_the_future And a piece we did about Embryonic Stem Cell research and this great artist from Pittsburgh, Frank Ferraro, who is living with Parkinsons Disease: http://current.com/items/88793205_the_traveler (photo above: Frank Ferraro from The Traveler)

A teaser for ambulantic's baby - I Am Like Cities, written and directed by Ben Hernstrom, starring Jason Bacasa, Elizabeth Martin, Schuyler Hernstrom, Matt Burns, and Ben.

One chapter in a series of found footage videos, tentatively titled - 1,000 years.