If you give a million monkeys a million typewriters and a million years to write, one of them will eventually type Shakespeare. But if you give a million monkeys a million movie cameras and a million years to film, will one of them eventually produce Citizen Kane?
It's that kind of thinking that led BBC producer John Capener to create The Chimpcam Project. The experiment, which is being turned into a documentary special set to air on BBC2, saw a dozen chimpanzees with rugged, custom-made cameras filming their own home movies over the course of 18 months. Researcher Betsy Herrelko noted that the chimps seemed to understand the filming process. As long as the monitor on the camera worked, the chimps could make the correlation between what they were pointing the camera at, and what was being shown on the viewscreen.
Daily Mail reports that Herrlko would like to conduct the experiment with different animals.
It's that kind of thinking that led BBC producer John Capener to create The Chimpcam Project. The experiment, which is being turned into a documentary special set to air on BBC2, saw a dozen chimpanzees with rugged, custom-made cameras filming their own home movies over the course of 18 months. Researcher Betsy Herrelko noted that the chimps seemed to understand the filming process. As long as the monitor on the camera worked, the chimps could make the correlation between what they were pointing the camera at, and what was being shown on the viewscreen.
Daily Mail reports that Herrlko would like to conduct the experiment with different animals.
- 1/27/2010
- by John Gholson
- Cinematical
When the trailer for a low budget film called After Last Season debuted on websites last March many people assumed it was a prank. More specifically, rumors started doing the Internet rounds that the trailer was the work of director Spike Jonze and was part of a viral marketing campaign for his forthcoming adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are, which opens Oct. 16.
Jonze certainly enjoys a good joke. The filmmaker co-produced and appeared in both Jackass movies and once picked up an MTV Award in the guise of a fictional choreographer named “Richard Koufey.” And the trailer does look like some kind of gag. The footage features a star-free cast flatly reciting dull, disconnected dialogue in spartanly-decorated rooms. One part of the trailer consists of a man announcing down the phone, “They’ve got, uh, printers in the basement you can use.” The footage also boasts some extremely basic...
Jonze certainly enjoys a good joke. The filmmaker co-produced and appeared in both Jackass movies and once picked up an MTV Award in the guise of a fictional choreographer named “Richard Koufey.” And the trailer does look like some kind of gag. The footage features a star-free cast flatly reciting dull, disconnected dialogue in spartanly-decorated rooms. One part of the trailer consists of a man announcing down the phone, “They’ve got, uh, printers in the basement you can use.” The footage also boasts some extremely basic...
- 7/14/2009
- by clarkcollis
- EW - Inside Movies
At the end of March, an exceedingly odd trailer for a feature film showed up on Apple's trailer page. For a film titled After Last Season, the trailer was a collection of almost random moments and conversation between students, researchers and a doctor seemingly involved in some kind of science experiment involving perception and telekinesis. The sheer mysteriousness of the whole endeavor — the fact that the trailer conveyed so little information about the film itself as well as its low production values (an Mri machine seemed clearly made from cardboard) — spawned an instant internet cult, with fans debating whether the film was real or a spoof, made by an "outsider filmmaker" or an elaborate stunt hatched by a savvy prankster. Just...
- 6/10/2009
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
In late March 2009, a trailer for a film called After Last Season appeared on the Internet. This cryptic trailer featured a litany of weirdness, including a cardboard box masquerading as a Mri machine, Rubbermaid containers shuffling across a floor, ultra-crude 3D computer graphics, and seemingly stunned actors delivering dialogue in dazed monotone. The trailer raised numerous questions. Was this a real movie? If so, was it an elaborate put-on? The answer to the first question is “yes.” Index Square, which is the company behind After Last Season, somehow managed to get a four city 35mm theatrical release through Cinemark. As to the second question, the answer is definitely “no.” The film is not a put-on. After Last Season is, however, so genuinely and startlingly bad that a movie cult will undoubtedly form around it.
- 6/6/2009
- by Rodney Perkins
- Screen Anarchy
After Last Season director Mark Region is as mysterious a presence as his film is within today's independent moviemaking community. After Filmmaker wrote about the film a couple of months ago, I've tried to get more info on him and his film. However, after the trailer went viral and the film seemed a new cult hit, the production company, Index Squared, has taken a very low-key approach to promoting the movie. But I was able to get in touch with one of the lead actors, Jason Kulas. I asked him some questions about the film over email, and he sent me the below response a few days ago. It gives us a lot more info on the film, which opens today in Lancaster, CA, North Aurora, Il, Rochester, NY, and Austin, TX. I haven't seen the film, so I...
- 6/5/2009
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
I don't think I've ever seen a movie trailer quite as baffling as the one for After Last Season, and I've seen the trailer for C Me Dance. No, this trailer is beyond just weird. It even looks legitimately poor, like it's made by people who have never learned anything about filmmaking. Certainly not composition. But what is this? Is it someone's idea of an internet prank? Is it a sweding project? A YouTube parody of mumblecore? No, my friends, this is a trailer for an actual movie coming out in June. To select theaters, of course.
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It's never nice to make fun of indie projects, let alone ones that took genuine hard work (10 years and $5 million, believe it or not), but some tough love is in order. What, exactly, does this trailer tell us? Why did they pick random scenes...
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It's never nice to make fun of indie projects, let alone ones that took genuine hard work (10 years and $5 million, believe it or not), but some tough love is in order. What, exactly, does this trailer tell us? Why did they pick random scenes...
- 4/4/2009
- by Arya Ponto
- JustPressPlay.net
Thanks to Jamie Stuart for the heads up about the trailer for After Last Season, which is in the early stages of going viral by virtue of its genuine oddness. Michael Tully at his Indiewire blog writes, "It’s like Todd Haynes lost his mind after Safe and was hired to direct a series of cable access sci-fi infomercials," while David Lowery writes, "I've watched the trailer about ten times now, and have yet to tire of it. It is so beyond logic in its construction that it essentially reinvents itself anew upon each viewing." In addition to being featured on the film's own website, the trailer also appears on Apple's trailer page. Jamie at Knox Road says he's spoken to the film's director, Mark Region, and the picture, which many doubt is an...
- 3/28/2009
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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