Arlington County Government, VA Arts and Entertainment, 7 May 2008

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From YouTube: Here/now: Rosebud Film Awards Preview

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A segment of AVN's monthly magazine show, "Here/now", this segment features a preview of the 2008 Rosebud Film Awards. Host Tara Miles interviews two Arlington filmmakers who are finalists for the '08 Rosebud Awards, Rob Parrish and Stephen Guidry, and views clips of their works. Also joining the interview, Arlington Independent Media's Jackie Steven, the driving force behind the Rosebud Film Awards.

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For 18 years, the Rosebud film competition has sought out and rewarded fresh and innovative filmmakers in Virginia, Maryland and DC. The competition gives exposure to the deserving independent film and video artists in our area. We're really pleased today to have the driving force behind the competition Jackie Steven, who is with Arlington independent media access station, and we also have the pleasure of having two other guests who are finalists in the Rosebud competition. We've got raw parish as well as Steven get REE. So we're really glad to have you all here today and jackie.

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I want to start first with you. If you can tell us a bit about the Rosebud film competition and what it's all about. Rosebud.

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Started in nineteen ninety by a group of people who saw a need to foster the independent filmmakers that were in our area, there.

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Were no competitions.

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At that time or film festivals that were unique to this area and rosebud is open exclusively to DC Maryland and Virginia. Filmmakers rosebuds mission also is to find films that are innovative, unusual, experimental or deeply personal. So we have a very defined mission as to what we're looking for and to also really reward our artists, who are here in this area when.

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Is the awards going to go out how's that process the.

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Showcase of the nominees there are 20 nominees, and two of them are here with us today, but the 20 nominees are all showcased on in June, fourteenth at rosalind spectrum theater at the rosebud nominee. Showcase tickets, for that event, are only eight dollars and are available at the door. So you can see all 20 films at six and a half hours. No, no films for eight dollars at.

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Dollar for dollar three alliah I think I'm going to be there. The.

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Next night, jun 15 is the award ceremony and of those 20 nominees. Five of them will each win thousand dollar cash prizes. The next night, oh wow,.

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So they can put their money into doing more film, making throw.

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My guy doing more films, okay,.

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That's great well, thank you on that and I want to turn to Rob. Can you tell me a little bit about the film that you have and what you did to put it together? Sure.

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My film is called headache and it's composed entirely of what some people call found footage you can think of it as discarded. Footage it's old commercials, corporate public relations, films, educational films and what I do is I. Look at lots of these kind of films because I, like them a lot and then just based on the images.

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I come up with a narrative or a story, and then I write out that story, I record it and kind of I'm, usually the voice, talent, I, kind of make up a character record, the new story and then re edit. The footage to the to the story and what I find it does is. First of all, it makes me make stories that I could have never thought of in a million years, because I'm keying off of the images, but then what I find is myself pops right through it?

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My concerns are kind of in their kind of woven into the narrative, so it's a very indirect way to make very personal films. In the end, even though the images are quite a few steps removed from from me, they end up being very personal. Is.

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It a server type of genre that you do is it something specific course is something that you've created on your own. No.

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There's always been a lot of work around found footage and a lot of artists, I've kind of got one foot in the fine arts world and one foot in the video world. So a lot of fine art video artists are using found. Footage is quite a bit of that and kind of reappropriation air ative. That's also been done in the past as well. So it's a it's a tradition that I didn't make up at one.

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That's has a pass and I think a future, because I think people love these old films and they they want to do things with them. Well,.

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Let's take a look at the short film clip of headache so.

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I'm dreaming I'm like at a resort in I, think Arizona. It's a desert, I've got my lawn chair, everything's great, it's hot, but it's dry heat, so I'm feeling warm but not bothered. The only weird thing are these little buildings miles in the distance. I know they are far away somehow, but when I look right at them they seem close, then boom flash and a bomb goes off and before I can really react. This big suitcase snaps me up. It sweeps me off I.

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Open my eyes and I'm in a house but in the dream, I know it's the inside of the suitcase and funny thing I don't remember, waking up from this dream and this voiceover is what I'm thinking. Oh.

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Great thank you for that and then Stephen. You have a whole other different type of medium itself. Could you describe that for us? Well,.

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The it's a music video I guess is the larger genre for a band that I'm in called the cassettes and the the actual animation is, is hand-drawn. It's sort of hand-drawn art by the lead singer of the band actually and then digitally animated. So basically he drew the backgrounds and the characters and whatnot and drew them in such a way. So they could be animated.

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So, basically, you know the hands and the arms and the eyes and the hats or sort of separate pieces and then gave it to me and put it into the computer and use the computer to animate all those little elements and everything and then, of course, also gave it a sort of I guess: I haven't been inspired from very early age for things like you know, the short cartoons on Sesame Street and that sort of thing to give it that sort of vintage vintage, meaning I, guess 60 70 s so vintage.

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Of yeah, more retro, I suppose, and you know, to sort of give it that look and to have that sort of try to achieve some of that simplicity of that form of animation. Now.

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We're going to take a look at your short film video, rogue known by the cassettes.

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Well, I want to thank you all and good luck on the competition to both you Robin to you. Steven you've got some really great clips that we just took a look at and but before we go, Jackie I do have a question. Could you tell us a little bit more about Arlington independent media I can't.

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Arlington independent media is the public access center that serves this county. We have classes in television production everything from very basic classes through master classes, but then we also have equipment and facilities available for you to use to create either independent films or anything that you want. And then we have a channel that we air it on here in Arlington, oh wow,.

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That sounds great I mean this is a great resource not only for Arlington filmmakers, but really for anyone in Arlington to be able to take advantage of some of the resources that you have. That's awesome. Ok, we gotta go but we'll see you next month from the avian studios. Remember it's all happening here now.

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