Right. Yesterday was the Borderlines film festival showing of the HCA students films, including Jack O Kent. For those of you who don't know, here's how it went;
The first and second year films were shown and all of them got a good reception from a packed audience. George's exploitation film in particular got the most laughs so it clearly achieved what it set out to do. By en large, things had gone well! David Gilliam, the general manager of the event took time in the pauses to give criticism to the films which people were generally nonplussed by as it wasn't his place to do so. Despite this, things had gone well as had been hoped.
However, when it came to the showing of Jack O Kent, Kaz Szostak's film of "Brownie" and Dave Jones's - justifiably - hyped film "Farises", there was a technical problem. The DVD with them on (which had been recently burned along with two other short photography films) didn't work on the courtyard DVD player and Dave connected his laptop to the projector as a substitute. Unfortunately, the DVD was eaten up by the laptop and it wasn't possible to play. Unfortunate and disappointing incident but nobody's fault.
However, when David Gilliam told the audience of the technical problem that was occurring, he took time to behave in the most appalling way possible and place the blame on us (Kaz, Dave and myself) for "altering" our work. Jo defended us, stating that we had worked hard and how wrong he was. The audience as a consequence broke into applaud and it was both satisfying and heartwarming?...yeah, heartwarming! to see how everyone was on our side. Everyone was extremely angry with the conduct of Gilliam and it was also satisfying to see him give everyone a wide berth afterwards.
Dave has consequently dissasociated both wind up world films and "Farises" from Borderlines and plans will be drawn up for another screening to take place.
The event wasn't a total write off mind as all the films that WERE shown were brilliant and got some great audience response. It was also good to see everybody on the same side.
over and out for the time being, watch this space...
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