From: WFG Production (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Feb 02 2009 - 15:31:21 PST
Winnipeg S.O.S;
Copy Cattery knows no borders.
Recently Winnipeg's iconic leading man of independent cinema; Robert
Vilar has been defaced, literally.
Robert has appeared in over 100 underground independent films.
To celebrate his diamond jubilee 100th film, l'Atelier National du
Manitoba Commissioned two filmmakers to celebrate this monumental
achievement.
The fruits their loins "Golden Vilar"
http://www.vimeo.com/2947624
The YouTube version has had the audio removed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOabwsck4O0
The filmmakers superimposed his face and spirit into the opening
sequence of the "Golden Girls".
The filmmakers chose this subject matter for the following reasons:
- re-appropriation is a right
- to highlight Robert's diverse abilities as an actor
- Robert's love for his day job as an orderly in an "old folks"
home
"Golden Vilar" had successes at film festivals such as Antimatter
(Victoria, BC 2007) The Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film (Durham, Ont)
and WNDX (Winnipeg, MB).
It is no understatement to say that the film plays best to a Winnipeg
audience. In fact, it was the centerpiece of the "Robert Vilar Film
Festival" in Winnipeg. Audiences were spilling tears of pure joy during
this screening and shooting in Portugeuse.
Sooooo.....
You can understand a collective artistic uproar when our city learned of
someone else superimposing a bands face on the same footage of the
"Golden Girls". Only difference is they asked permission of the "Golden
Girl" producers.
Isaac Rentz - Pistol Youth Music Video
http://www.vimeo.com/2883450
Frameworks,...our city is being defeated by the nasty You Tube
cherry-pickery of this L.A. hack. He addresses us as if we are and will
always be a bunch of labotamized lumberjacks.
Please view for yourselves and feel free to comment.
Thanks you, so much.
Mike Maryniuk
Production Coordinator
Winnipeg Film Group
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For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.
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For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.