Golden words
Making art is all about paying attention to life, something our escapist culture works so diligently to negate.
-Michael Rabiger
With that in mind, and if we see movies as part of the escapism, it must be the highest goal of a moviemaker to provide an insight to the world, that the audience themselves might had been able to observe by actually not going to the cinema (et cetera).
In that sense, it would be highly provocative to treat an audience to a feature-length film of what goes on right outside the movie theatre as they sit there…
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Feb 3rd 2006
Very interesting thought indeed.
Too bad that can only happen at one single cinema. It wouldn’t make as much sense to run the film at other cinemas, I mean. Unless… Unless you could somehow customize either the cinema or the movie. You could also - as a thought experiment - constrain it to one or two scenes, shot on green screen and then customize the scenes by inserting different cinemas as a background. Very strange idea. Mass customized movies (MCM - haha).
Wow - you made my brain sizzle there… ;-)