Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and Crowd-Funding

[brundlefly]

"An anthology of film criticism exploring the work of iconoclastic director of Robert Downey, Sr." co-edited by Kier-La Janisse and Clint Enns.

Featuring new essays by 22 scholars, critics, archivists, music historians and pop culture chroniclers alongside a selection of reprinted archival writings, Truth and Soul: A Robert Downey, Sr. Reader explores the cultural legacy of the many offbeat and fascinating works that he produced over his career, with a particular focus on how they intersect with race, class, consumerism, family, gender politics and debates of “highbrow”/”lowbrow” art. Each chapter provides readers with the context to understand and explore Downey's work and to uncover the real truth and soul that brought life and laughter to his whimsical films.

Full table of contents here.

[beamish14]

"An anthology of film criticism exploring the work of iconoclastic director of Robert Downey, Sr." co-edited by Kier-La Janisse and Clint Enns.

Featuring new essays by 22 scholars, critics, archivists, music historians and pop culture chroniclers alongside a selection of reprinted archival writings, Truth and Soul: A Robert Downey, Sr. Reader explores the cultural legacy of the many offbeat and fascinating works that he produced over his career, with a particular focus on how they intersect with race, class, consumerism, family, gender politics and debates of “highbrow”/”lowbrow” art. Each chapter provides readers with the context to understand and explore Downey's work and to uncover the real truth and soul that brought life and laughter to his whimsical films.

Full table of contents here.

A long overdue project. Happy to support it

[hearthesilence]

MM Serra needs financial help with her healthcare.

MM Serra - filmmaker, educator, and Executive Director of the Film-Makers’ Cooperative for over 30 years - has recently experienced a number of significant health challenges. As a result, she has had to undergo a series of operations and extensive rehabilitation. Serra currently has 24-hour care and will need to pay for a home-health aide and physical therapy to assist her with household tasks and mobility for the next several months.

We are asking for your help and support to raise money for Serra in order to ensure her recovery and well-being...

[swo17]

3D Rarities Vol. III

[Finch]

Some of the team behind the upcoming Fleischer cartoons set have a Kickstarter for Silent Cartoon All Stars Vol 1. 24 days left and quite a bit to go.

[colinr0380]

Just a note that the latest Spectography kickstarter is to create a Blu-ray edition of Benjamin Christensen's 1926 film The Devil's Circus, starring Norma Shearer.

[brundlefly]

Support Tom Savini After House Fire

[fdm]

Final days for a kickstarter to finish up production of their Sun Ra documentary (Sun Ra: Door Of The Cosmos) about the SUN RA Ominverse and The roots of AFROFUTURISM. Should be worthwhile.

[arsonfilms]

Alex Cox is raising money for Repo Man 2

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/al ... repo-man-2

[dda1996a]

Alex Cox is raising money for Repo Man 2

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/al ... repo-man-2

Are any of his other kickstarter-funded films worth anything?

[arsonfilms]

Alex Cox is raising money for Repo Man 2

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/al ... repo-man-2

Are any of his other kickstarter-funded films worth anything?

Dead Souls was made for about half of what he’s looking to raise for Repo Man 2, and won a handful of awards. Indicator and Kino are releasing it. I think it’s usually best to think of something like this as art patronage or philanthropy, but I think Cox is still exploring some interesting ideas without any studio oversight.

[hearthesilence]

We were just talking about this in another thread, but he reportedly said he was going to do Repo Man 2 when asked point blank if Dead Souls was really his last film.

ngl, you can see where they were short on budget with Dead Souls. Hair and makeup (especially the "hair") looked like something borrowed from a community theater, which is fine in that context but a lot less convincing when filmed in close-up on actual locations rather than a stage set. At times I wish they were able to cast older character actors on the level of Harry Dean Stanton just to have people who were better on-camera and more convincing in these settings - Harry Dean Stanton looked like someone who could've lived in the Old West. And of course it would've been great if it were shot on film just to have a grittier, grainy look than something comparatively squeaky clean. If all that had fallen into place, I think it would've looked truly apiece with the Italian Westerns that inspired it. But even with those shortcomings, the settings which were indeed real desert locations were great, and Cox himself does a fine job in the lead role. All my reservations melted away as the film progressed and I was won over.