Ben at the Disposable Film fest – Part 3

Our big day today, as the Disposable Film Fest put on a show of undiluted Jim and Heinz, which was received amazingly well by the crowd at Artists Television Access, who then proceeded to buy a whole bunch of the new J&H DVD   ‘The Burst of Jim and Heinz’ (US release only).   Before the show I gave a 5 minute intro with powerpoint, bringing everyone up to date with a quick history of the picture-story format and the origins of this still successful series.  The film programme contained such well-loved favourites such as ‘Shhh’ and  ‘Heinz’s Halloween Horor’ along with the rarely screened ‘Jim and Heinz in the real world’ and ‘LSD’ and finishing off with the world premiere of  ‘Critical Error=True’

After the show there was a Q&A session which threw up some interesting questions which I was sometimes unable to give a straight answer to, such as ‘ how did you come up with the characters?’

Anyway, here’s the powerpoint intro and I’ll post up the Q&A after I’ve scanned it for libellous content.

On an unrelated note I met a Latino guy today who looked exactly like an ageing Henry Winkler (aka the Fonz) who supports Arsenal and likes Benny Hill.

Ben’s report from the Disposable Film Festival – part 2

The DFF kicked off last night with a show of Competition shorts at the Roxie. It was a very strong show with some new work in the Disposable genre that was nothing short of astonishing. Lots of interest for the Jim and Heinz show on Saturday (2pm, ATA) . Tomorrow sees the long-awaited Buttons 2 from New York’s Red Bucket Films. I made a deal with Carlton Evans and Rd Bucket’s Alex Kalman  to present screenings of the DFF ’10 programme and Buttons 2  in London later this year.

I also ate a lamb kebab as big as my forearm (without the hand)

Ben’s report from the Disposable Film Festival – part 1

Hi Blunt Followers

SAN FRANCISCO- The Disposable Film Festival starts tomorrow with a lineup of cool films all made with non-traditional hardware – stuff like digital cameras, flatbed scanners, phones- basically anything that can record an image that isn’t a normal video camera. Being such a progressive bunch they’ve taken a shine to Blunt’s ‘Jim and Heinz’ series- to the extent that they invited me and Peter Waldeck here to put on a special Jim and Heinz show.

http://www.disposablefilmfest.com/

Unfortunately Peter can only make it in 2D form, but I’ll be representing the J & H crew on Saturday, including such treats as a live powerpoint history of the picture story format and the world premiere of the new Jim and Heinz: ‘Critical Error=True’

http://www.disposablefilmfest.com/watch_ben/

Anyway, I’ve been here about 8 hours, eaten some pretty decent Chinese food and found the only cash machine that doesn’t charge you for withdrawing money. Unfortunately I found it right after being charged $3 for taking some money out of a different machine. I also made an arse of myself on a bus because since the last time I came here they raised the fares and I didn’t know and thought I had the correct change when in fact I didn’t.

I’ll put some video footage up later. (ie when I’ve taken some)

Coming in March

March is going to be Animation month. Golf Thewlis is on hand to steer us through some great examples of animation. We’re going to look at the process of making animated GIFs and doing some simple claymation.

We’ve also got a report from Ben in San Francisco as he attends the Disposable Film Festival who are holding a special tribute to Jim & Heinz.

Watch out for more great enteries from Blunt Productions.