From: Tom Whiteside (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Feb 16 2011 - 12:22:41 PST
I disagree with both of the statements below (excerpted from a longer post.) I am not saying this person is wrong, but there is certainly another point of view. In my experience film festivals are still a pretty good thing, and they are not "over." In fact, Strange Beauty Film Festival starts Thursday in Durham at Manbites Dog Theater, and if you want to be there you have to be on time...... Oh sorry, I think it's sold out, seems there are too many people who don't agree that "the basic fundamentals of a time restricted festival (are) over." Can you see some of this work online? No doubt. When you do that, will you miss the live music performances? Yep. Will you get to talk about the films over a beer with other folks who've also just seen it for the first time? Nope. One might dismiss such activity as "social engagement and networking," but all of the arts activities I have been involved with over the years - symphony orchestras, rock bands, film making - have included some element of that. It's not a bad thing.
What's next, the end of music? Come on folks, cultural institutions change, but they don't disappear just because of new technology. I've watched "The Wizard of Oz" with my family at home on tv, it's great; I've watched "The Wizard of Oz" with a full house at the Castro, it's better.
- Tom
>No one goes to a fest (like Toronto or Sundance) to see films, its about social enagement, parties and networking.
>Curration may create cohesion or thematic ideas in programming but the basic fundamentals of a time restricted festival (be here at this time to see these films in this >order) is over.
>Long live cinema.
>Yours
>RSH
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