Michael Pattison

[Capo]

Michael Pattison (1987-whenever/forever)



1. Is Not 2006
2. Road 2006
3. Still 2006
4. Gwent Jykmel: A Fragmented Short on Language 2006
5. Hymn 2006
6. Textures 2006
7. The Little Match Girl 2005

[Capo]

Written and directed by new member Jimmy Jazz, and produced by, edited by and starring me:

Rein Man

Excuse the misspelled title in the opening credits.

[Omar]

admin said:

Written and directed by new member Jimmy Jazz, and produced by, edited by and starring me:

Rein Man

Excuse the misspelled title in the opening credits.

I'm in a hotel room with horrible internet access, but when I get to a better environment, I will watch this. If I haven't watched it by this time next week, please remind me.

[Capo]

Hotel? Where are you?

[Omar]

Pittsburgh, for now. I was under the impression that I would have internet access the entire time I was gone, thus me not informing you guys that I was gone, but this was not the case for the majority of this weekend.

[Capo]

Bump for ya, Omar. Sorry to persist. I'd forgotten about this myself.

[Omar]

I actually watched it when I got back, but forgot to comment. Sorry.

I'm going to watch it again, but I remember liking the really dry humor. And your character was funny, especially the final revelation. And the opening shot.

I'll watch it again later today.

[svsg]

The movies from this director are tough to get hold of. I once watched a short Hymn, his first movie I guess. There was some codec problem in another short movie (interrogation one) that would not play the sound in all of the softwares I had (Windows media player, VLC) that time. The director should make his movies easily download-able(by compressing them for optimal quality) and have it all in one place. But who is going to convince him. I have heard that he is a monkey

[Omar]

He certainly looks like one.

[Capo]

RACISM! Just because my dad is black.

[pizzaboy]

Dear God!

How DO you get your mouth that wide open?

You must be a riot at parties.

[svsg]

Hymn
Still
Is Not
Gwent Jykmel

I liked the editing of Is Not, but wasn't a big fan of hand held camera.
I really liked Gwent Jykmel, especially the last chapter. I believe that a personal film like this would be a good documentary of the times, if you don't trust your memory. As a fragmented short on language, the verbose nature of the final segment makes sense, but it is difficult to read large chunks of text.

[Capo]

Jan 7, 2007 22:58:30 GMT Capo said:

Michael Pattison (1987-2010)

LMAO!!!

Thanks for watching, svsg! I'll provide commentary on these soon.

[RNL]

;D

I was wondering how long it'd take you to notice that.

[Capo]

Svsg has kindly uploaded a torrent of four of my films. These were all made outside of academic interests, in my own time on zero budget, under "Magus Films" production label.

For those who haven't seen (all bar wetdog, omar and svsg), I'd appreciate it if you downloaded the file and watched them (bearing in mind they've been compressed, and were shot in the first place on a shitty S-VHS camera).

Feedback welcome.

If you're gonna watch them, do so in this order (the order I made them): Hymn, Still, Is Not, Gwent Jykmel: A Fragmented Short on Language.

www.mininova.org/tor/1354988

[svsg]

If any of you plan to download, please reply here or in a PM to me, so that I can seed for couple of days till there are more seeds. ( I am the only seeder now).

[Capo]

Apr 18, 2008 5:28:53 GMT @svsg said:

As a fragmented short on language, the verbose nature of the final segment makes sense, but it is difficult to read large chunks of text.

I like the opening chapter the best; how coherent sentences become connected only by association of sounds, and finally become incoherent babbling and beatboxing. It was intended to be my comment on everyday chit-chat and what it amounts to (not very much).

The very opening jump-cuts show me talking to my mirror, attacking my head of year at the time (I filmed chapters one and three after getting in from school following a bit of a bust-up with the head of year); "You're just abusing your authority," I say, "You've always got to have the last say, haven't you, eh?" Then I attack the shitty amateur films some boys in the year below me were making at the time, in which they were teenagers playing old gangsters, and relishing the chance to say fuck every other word; but they were hardly convincing. In the film here I say, "Oh, you know, first chance the get in front of the camera they start swearing, like, I don't know, 'Where the fuck is he?' Oooh, let's say a naughty word, but they don't say it right, do they? The fuck just blends in. You've got to say, 'Where the fuck is he? Eh? Where the fuck is he?"

Seeing that film, my parents nearly disowned me. My dad said it didn't mean anything and my mam said it was perverted. My media teacher (the office boss in Reign Man) said the part where I shoot the wall with a floppy sock was a fitting allegory for gun violence in cinema, and the superficiality of it all. I like that interpretation. My English teacher said it was a convincing portrait of impotence and masturbation (especially the final chapter).

[svsg]

Apr 26, 2008 12:55:50 GMT Capo said:

Seeing that film, my parents nearly disowned me. My dad said it didn't mean anything and my mam said it was perverted.

They are right

[Capo]

Road is online. You can view it here. The POVs of the deafened guy have a ridiculously low, whirring frequency under them, produced in post by a good old Korgi synthesizer. You need good speakers (and a good video, which this really isn't) to feel the benefit, though. It gave us all headaches when we were recording it; a few guys had to leave the room.

[Michael]

1. Still (2006) **
2. Hymn (2006)