Academy

After a 2 hr wait for the print to be located ("technical difficulties" - spare me), one fifth of the original audience returned for the premier screening of R. Luke DuBois' Academy. 1928-2002 (75 years) of Best Picture Oscar winners shrunk down to 1 minute each. 75 minutes total. New technology allows this to occur without distorting the picture - like and extreme fast-forward. It was a great deal of fun revisiting (albeit briefly) these classic films in ff, and certainly, observing the technological changes (esp. in directing/editing) as time has passed was fascinating. You can make sense of the older films (sort of) like Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Hamlet (1948) but more modern films like Titanic (1997) and Gladiator (2000) flash by in a blur. This experimental film is interesting and certainly quite an experience but just because it's not been done before, does that make it a worthwhile experiment? What's the point? Does there need to be a point? It entertained me, so I'm not sure.

7 on the DaveScale.

(dir. Luke DuBois, USA, 75 mins)