A universal basic income for the serious hobbyist?
In this week's letter:
🎠 The amateur who “goes at it” with professional discipline.
🧚 The pro who “goes at it” with untamed tenderness.
🚸 The pootler lost somewhere between.
🍱 Exercise: how does this affect lunch?
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◡◶▿ AMAT11 | Paths
🎥 🏢 Shadow careers, or "quiet self-awarded trans-dimensional promotion" for the amateur filmmaker. A universal income for the serious hobbyist.
Advanced Amateury Week 11
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◡◶▿ AMAT10 | Home
The 8mm mistake that can tear your world in two.
Kira Muratova's secret sect.
Plus: new homemade Italian 1976 outer space birth movie just dropped.
📹 Unfound Peoples Videotechnic | Cloud-based filmmaking thought. ☁️
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🐿️ The home moviemaking mistake that can shunt your family onto separate planes of existence.
🥯 The “modest sandwich” definition of home moviemaking.
👩👦 Kira Muratova’s hand-me-down break-up movie.
📴 A thought experiment about your neighbour’s Nokia.
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◡◶▿ AMAT09 | Shabbiness
is now up on @substack.
The candle-wax on the cuff of the late-night poet-filmmaker. Plus: Guy Maddin’s Raiders of the Lost Ark.
The voiceover is also up now, for those who missed it in this morning's email.
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◡◶▿ AMAT08 | Faulty out now on @substack:
Having fun with faults, blame, and destiny on the film set.
Plus: Isabella Rossellini live on animals tonight! Alice Zoo! Fellini!| Advanced Amateury Week 08
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This week at UPV!
🔥 Don’t mistake an accident for a mistake: mistakes cause accidents.
🔭 Finding the source of the mistake that caused the accident can lead you to valuable material.
🤞 To remove blame from a film set, try surrendering to misfortune.
🔤 Hollis Frampton.
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System failure may be the “doomed expedition” of our epoch.
In other words, a dramatic and vital working metaphor for the singular and collective human effort, using a science-fiction of the present.
UPV AMAT07 | Error
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"A substantial technical, narrative, or material error shifts a whole film into malfunction status. A system failure. The audience, and the filmmaker, (and her mother), question the implications of this error for the rest of the film."
UPV AMAT07 | Error
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From our latest filmmaking class on @substack :
AMAT06 | Mistakeism
A mistake can be a half-closed sewer hole that you lever open. Or which–unattended–stretches and gapes until filmic matter falls through. 1/5
✨ Mistakes are your fault. Errors are your universe’s fault.
🍔 Your mistakes are jam-packed with nutritious value - and it’s all free.
🏦 The mistakeist strategises around the inevitability of mistakes & may generate new ones (again, at no extra expense to the producer.) 🔗⬇️
◡◶▿ AMAT06 | Mistakeism out now on @substack
Let your mistakes transport you to another dimension. Plus: David Oreilly, Fracto, money, child failure, Musk.
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How to know what boundaries to respect when particular slips, breakages, and violations are to be celebrated - and others, regretted? | UPV AMAT05
Out now on @substack. Link in bio.
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