Captain Pixel's entry into the 2010 Nashville 48 Hour Film Festival

In 2007, I made a film for the Nashville 48 Film Festival. If you’re not familiar with the fest, teams from around each city must write, shoot, and edit a 4-7 minute film in just 48 hours. The teams are given a line of dialogue, a prop, a character, and a hat-pulled genre. I’d like to say that my 2007 film was an emotionally satisfying experience — cathartic — a blood, sweat, and genius-soaked 6 minute masterpiece.

Not quite.

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"Not a mouse Shall disturb this hallowed house. I am sent, with broom, before, To sweep the dust behind the door."

Winter’s Bone is by far and wide the best reviewed live action American film of the year (beat out on Metacritic only by the Ozu re-release I was Born, But. . ., the brilliant Un Prophete, and Toy Story 3.) The modern day Ozark noir has some of the best performances of recent memory, a gripping narrative, beautiful Red camera cinematography, and nail-bite pacing. So what’s wrong with it? Glad you asked.

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TFT 138 running time: 41 minutes 20 seconds – 19.9mb mp3

SALT starts at 1 minute 30 seconds

DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS / THE DINNER GAME starts at 22 minutes 54 seconds

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Is this really something to be proud of?

Over the past year, I’ve been gradually selling off my dvd collection on Ebay. Last Sunday, I listed the final stragglers. Once the auctions are paid for and shipped, I will be, in effect, dvd-less for the first time in 10 years.

And that fills me with a mixture of loss and freedom. A dvd collection is like an extension of one’s soul, a filmic phenotype of plastic, cardboard, and silicone. I had built up an impressive collection of oeuvres: the near complete works of Bresson, Kurosawa, Rohmer, and more — delicacies hard fought and won through online dvd stores, brick and mortars, and internet auction sites — items from every region code, PAL and NTSC — editions rare and out of print — artifacts enshrined in special collector’s tins, lunchboxes, and vacuum molded plastic. Many were linked with an emotion or the time in my life when I purchased them. And while I made sure to “back up” all of the dvds on hard drives anticipating a future home media computer (I’m not a fool), I felt like I lost a little bit of myself with every auction listed.

And then I smacked myself out of that sentimental fantasy world.

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TFT 137 running time: 54 minutes 06 seconds – 26.1mb mp3

INCEPTION starts at 1 minutes 35 seconds

WINTER’S BONE starts at 39:48

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