“Why do movies have to be ‘canned’? Everything is canned" - Francis Ford Coppola
It seems that FoolishPeople are not alone in our quest for a new form of cinematic experience. Francis Ford Coppola's Twixt shall debut this September at the Toronto International Film Festival. Twixt shall herald a new, non-linear film making experience which incorporates live music and narration, as well as 2D and 3D sequences. Using shuffling software, the film's scenes can be completely randomised with performance artist and electronic musician Dan Deacon altering the film's live aspect to suit. In a sense, this "remixing" technique will mean that every audience sees a different edit and therefore a unique version of the film. Coppola plans to begin his 30 city tour of the film later this year. Discussing his cinematic experiment he claims:
"Cinema is so young! How dare anyone think all it has got up its sleeve is more 3D where the ticket prices go up? Cinema is a baby. Of course we’re going to see wonderful innovations come; there will be many".
With less than 2 weeks before FP begin filming our own Film Fantastique Strange Factories in Prague, we could not agree more. Cinema is little more than a hundred years old. So much has been achieved in terms of artistic and technological innovation within that time but also so little. Filmmakers must continue to push the boundaries of their art in all directions, breaking staid notions of what cinema is. We must ask instead, what can cinema be? In the case of Strange Factories we shall be offering a living feature film in every sense of the word. Our audiences shall be able to move freely within the phantasmagoric world of the fictions they have created. This is the future of cinema.
We have much work to do.
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