NEWS -------------- Main Box: SloMo Video is a dvd and a traveling show that isn't afraid to take the time to stop and smell the roses, or get sucked in a k-hole and stare at its navel for a couple of hours. This is a celebration of the savoring of the moment, the bliss of the minute and the minute. Remember when you were a kid and you could stare at ants crawling around for hours, or just space out and look at the ceiling or the patterns on the floor (yes, before acid)? SloMo is about recreating that meditative place in the present and not being afraid to turn the rheostat counter-clockwise a bit and the record player down past 33 1/3 and sit a spell and beanbag out. High-tech, low-tech, slo-tech. Digital, analog as long as it is ssssssssssslllllllllllllllllllllllooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Mainbox w/orange bckground: SloMo Video will be screeeching into towns around the world and putting on the brakes for a few hours, turning time into taffy. Turning the usual expectations of a video show on its side and inside out and pulling the audience through a molasses-tinged strange warp of visual and audio beauty. It also will be a dvd available for purchase--perfect for shifting events into slow gear and creating a pervasive bewitching atmosphere of slow. SloMo is an inspiring statement of creative collaboration for the sake of art banded together to express a single concept, uniquely united in its creative common mantle (touring video festival) sidebar: 120 slow motion films 1 minute each Acceptable submission mediums: cd-r/dvd-r/miniDV deadline July 15, 2005 Send to: SloMo Video c/o Ryan Junell 812 22nd street San Francisco, CA 94107 Sidebar#2 Anyone and everyone is encouraged to submit a slow motion video. This is not a typical film festival that favors filmmakers or professionals. The likelihood of being included in the compilation is dependent on the amount of entries received. end/sidebar#1 Break up into side column quotes through out multiple pages: page #1: Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. Will Rogers (1879 - 1935) page #2 Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001) page #3 Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898), Alice in Wonderland We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own. Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662) French mathematician, physicist The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all you are traveling for. Louis L'Amour (1908 - 1988) VIDEOS -------------- parke gregg sam zimmerman and ... jules beesley clay junell HOW-TO MAKE -------------- Crunk (linkto: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=crunk&r=f) it up real good, speed it up and slow it down, mess with your own expectations, twist, there are no rules other than it can't be longer than 60 seconds and it shouldn't include any titles or credits in the piece--send that as text that we will add to the titles at the end of the entire show. The way to achieve natural slow motion with inexpensive camcorders. by Thomas Worth (2-26-2003) http://rarevision.com/articles/slow_motion.php check out these plugins for after effects and final cut pro: RE:Vision Effects, Inc. http://www.revisionfx.com here's a book on the subject: Harper Collins "In Praise of Slowness" http://www.harpercollins.com/global_scripts/product_catalog/book_xml.asp??isb n=006054578X http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/006054578X/qid=1118515905/sr=2-11/ref= pd_bbs_b_2_1/104-9392397-5731958 slow lab! http://www.slowlab.net/projects%20list.html slow food! http://www.slowfood.com sloooow ambient music http://www.timelessmedia.net/hos/ nine beet stretch http://mrtg.planetmirror.com/pub/9beetstretch/ dj screw http://www.screweduprecords.com SUBMIT A VIDEO -------------- Anyone and everyone is encouraged to submit a slow motion video. This is not a typical film festival that favors filmmakers or professionals. The likelihood of being included in the compilation is dependent on the amount of entries received. Please send all entries to: SloMo Video c/o Ryan Junell 812 22nd street San Francisco, CA 94107 The DEADLINE is July 15th. TOUR SCHEDULE -------------- chicago washington d.c. miami austin houston dallas/fort worth portland philadelphia providence columbus boulder new york los angeles phoenix international: mexico city london paris barcelona berlin frankfurt rio de janeiro moscow st. petersburg tokyo shanghai helsinki rejkavik prague istanbul rome venice sydney melbourne PRE-ORDER DVD -------------- ABOUT -------------- the founder RYAN JUNELL is a San Francisco-based media designer. His video work includes artful non-fiction about travel, politics, media, and society. His music videos and music films have appeared in programming on MTV2, MTV Europe, ResDVD "Resistance," Sonar Festival (Spain), The New York Underground Film Festival, and dozens of galleries and clubs in San Francisco and New York. He produced and directed a short documentary about Democratic Presidential Candidate John Kerry on the campaign trail in Iowa. Since 2001, Junell has performed live mixes of original non-narrative videos as part of the experimental improv quartet Sagan featuring the audio talent of Prix Ars Electronica recipients J Lesser, Blevin Blectum, and Wobbly. Sagan released "Unseen Forces" - a 40 minute music film on dvd and audio cd in the fall of 2004 on Vague Terrain. Junell honed his producing and fundraising skills as a primary organizer of The Webzine Event Series, an annual conference in San Francisco (1998/1999/2000) and New York (2001) about independent publishing on the internet and the power of independent media. CONTACT -------------- gas@SloMovideo.com SPONSORS -------------- This is a non-profit project, all donations are tax deductible. Our festival depends soley on donations from corporate sponsors and private individuals. SloMo Video attracts technologically sophisticated, boundary challenging, art house and art museum patrons who are trend setters. The content will be scorched on the retinas on tens of thousands of people through its tour, dvd and web presence. This festival will tour for a year (2006 and beyond) around the globe making its presence known to several thousands of people. The dvd will pass through between thousands of fingers, pop-up at events, concerts, in the background on club scenes in independent films, find itself in the center of a protagonists nightmare in an arty horror film. The website will host all 120 final entries, drawing in a large viewer ship, the festival will host a good deal of audience, banner ads, saavy web connections through friends' blogs, etc. Hi-tech industry software plugins, video applications; hardware manufacturers: computers geared towards video editors (professional and amateur); libations cultivating the more meditative times in life: fine wines, teas, slow produced food and ahem, prescriptive medicines are all perfect companions to the theme of our festival. In the fall and winter it will tour US cities it will tour US Spring 2006 across American universities and it will The festival can play by itself or with other events. We are actively accepting sponsorships for SloMo Video. Email sponsor@slomovideo.com DVD will be flexible in its uses: loop, random party mode Robitussin http://www.walgreens.com/library/finddrug/druginfo1.jsp?particularDrug=Robitussin&id=4850 Please be careful with the following prescription medicines if you attend a screening of these films: MEDIA -------------- banner ads media kit high resolution logo stills of slow motion videos press and articles contact: press@SloMovideo.com FAQ -------------- can i submit more than one? more than one submission is encouraged. that 2+ will make it in to the festival is determined by the number of submissions... however if we get 1000 submissions then we're going to have to select the best 120. is it ok to have the main layer of the video in slowmo with other elements in other time frames? the videos merely have to address the concept of slow motion... how you implement is up to you... hopefully the PRIMARY focus of the video will include some form of slow motion. will you credit all the selected works? all works will be credited, most likely at the END of the program. filmmakers will be encouraged to NOT include credits IN their piece... the full minute should be dedicated to the slow motion. what, if any, payment for DVD sales? all DVD profit will be put back into the project to either fund a volume 2 or to keep volume 1 in print in the event that they all sell out. we'll probably spend several thousand dollars on the first printing does the artist retain the rights for any other use? all filmmakers will be encouraged to license their work to the DVD under a Creative Commons Attribution License (cc). see this link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ who are you and what is your goal in doing this? we are filmmakers and festival programmers. we enjoy touring the united states with a film last fall and are eager to do it again this coming fall. We think there's a need for an awesome theme-based festival. We think a lot of people will enjoy it. We think people will want to buy the dvd to play in their homes and at parties. people love the SloMo! do you have a website with your artwork or artwork you have collected? gonna be updating the site soon... you're the first person with real questions so I'm taking the opportunity to write some stuff down. i've been looking for some good stock SloMo (droplets falling into water, hummingbird in flight, dancers etc.), do you know a good source? I have no idea about stock SloMo... if you find something, let me know because there will be some other filmmakers with the same question. but I really want to STRONGLY encourage you to get out there and film some SloMo yourself. let's build up a new archive of stock SloMo. SloMo