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FeedKids film the darndest things
At the end of Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmakers Apocalypse, the truly warts-and-all documentary about the cosmically rancorous making of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, the maestro contemplates the future of cinema (this was 1992). “To me, the great hope is that … people who normally wouldn’t make movies are going to be making them, and suddenly some little fat girl in Ohio is going be the new Mozart … and for once the so-called professionalism of movies will be destroyed forever, and it will really become an art form.”
In addition to seemingly predicting the advent of Youtube, Coppola was also pondering the ability of anyone, especially kids, to pick up a camera and make art. Best example of this locally? The Buffalo Youth Media Insitute.
On Sunday, November 15, at 3 P.M., a BYMI film festival will be held at the Market Arcade on Main Street, and it will be a true showcase for these young filmmakers. I guarantee these works will show more wit, enthusiasm, and life than ninety-five percent of what’s playing at the Regal. It’s also a chance for Youth Media Institute-rs past and present to come together, show their work, and demonstrate why this is so vital. (Call 884-7172 or visit www.squeaky.org for info.)
Check out some past examples at myspace.com/youthmediainstitute, specifically The Infected District, a gorgeously shot seven minutes looking at nineteenth-century case files of the old Canal District, and Burning the Bridge: A War Story, a nicely edited bit of past (the War of 1812) and present by Alyssa Ricigliano.
It’s a great project that might be a bit under the radar, but it deserves support.
