a shout out, a dream, and the beginnings of a credo

i have some pretty fucking talented friends. if joe wisner's baller breakout bacon didn't prove that to you, then perhaps a new work by zach proctor entitled johnson county fair will. it is what we here at the bc like to refer to as pure cinema. what we mean by that is that it is a marriage of sound and image as opposed to the plot driven, literary type of film that we are used to coming from hollywood. there are very few examples of this left in the world as audiences have gotten past the act of jumping out of their seats fearful of the train coming toward them as they did at the initial lumiere screenings ages ago.

that is what proctor's work reminds me of. the parade line forms a slow progression moving into and out of the frame in a manner similar to the train entering the lumiere factory. this is what cinema intended, a clever mashup of sound and image that makes one feel, that makes one see. unlike the "book on film" type of movies that we have come to know that have story arc and character development and various other tropes of other, "lesser" art forms like literature, these slices of pure cinema do little besides represent ideas, give us something to look at and listen to, and above all make us think. i guess these films do quite a bit after all, and without the large scale methods of production that the proletariat(i.e. not beer cannes readers) has come to expect from movies.

and that ladies and gentleman brings me to my dream. sometime toward the end of the year, october or november, i would like to hold the first annual beer cannes film festival. as i know loads of talented people who tend to like/make all sorts of types of films i feel that securing entries should not be a problem. as you can tell by this site's constanat championing of works like bacon and johnson county fair, we will pretty much look at anything in our lifelong quest to come to a clear definition of what cinema is.(which at this point seems like everything) i want voices as diverse as zach proctor and joe wisner and shane white and myself and mike scott and anybody else who thinks that they have something that they would like to share in less than 30 minutes to make something and submit it to the fest.( a john peddie ode to his son?, mike maier finally getting motorcycles right on film?) whatever the fuck ever. readers of this blog who know similarly talented people(they are everywhere) that show an interest in artistic expression of this ilk are encouraged to tell their friends so their friends can submit.

my dream is to have a party where these films will be seen and voted on, both by the audience and by a jury of film illuminatti who have shown little interest in making films yet still have strong voices and infinite credibility in the bc universe (ryan micheel, jury foreman?) and two awards will be handed out as such. but who cares about awards as much as the forum for having new, interesting, off the beaten path work seen by an audience of discerning indianapolis viewers.

i want my reader's help! submit ideas in the comment section.
i want films of all sorts. experimental docs about crack head trannies to abstract color splotches. it all has its place in the beer cannes film festival. just be original and make it yours. own it.

because here at beer cannes, we are all about the cinema and the amazing things that it can do. we are all about expanding the ideas of what it is. and most importantly we are all about lending a voice to works that need to be seen from this incredibly talented city of ours. beer cannes is the property of its contributor's various messages...i am merely the vessel by way of which these messages travel. we are hollywood for those that don't have the industry connections to do that sort of thing. we are a friend to all you badass indy artists and filmmakers, and we want to show you some love.