Hate to Love YouTube

The other night I had an uncontrollable urge to show my friend a short film I knew he would love. I hopped on youtube, pulled the film up, and pressed play. The quality was so horrible that I groaned to him that we should turn it off while he reassured me he could tell what was happening and was getting the gist of it. I squirmed, while he watched, and in the end he loved what I had shared and was pumped on the filmmaker.

As the film editor here on illiteratemagazine.com it is my job to love on film so much that you, my ever loyal readers, will begin to love on film as much as I do. Because we are not in a classroom and I do not have an infinite reserve of 16mm and 35mm prints, DVDs, and visiting artists I must search the depths of the internet to bring you the films I want to share. Usually this means that begrudgingly turn to youtube. As much as I hate these low resolution videos, there is a wealth of experimental film, animation, installation documentations, and videos available for the picking. So I have to choose, share what I love using a medium that is an empty shell of its original format, or not share at all.

So here is my apology: I am sorry that I can not sit you in a dark room and invite you to be washed over with sound and image. I am sorry that my resources limit me from giving you the real experience. But I have a favor to ask you: if you see something on this blog that rubs you in all the right places, hunt it down and watch it the right way. Netflix has a pretty incredible selection of off the beaten path DVDs, or you might be lucky like me and have a bangin' video store in your neighborhood that is just waiting to dust off its selection of "By Brakhage" or "Masters of Russian Animation Volume 2 "

David Lynch is making a slightly different point, but the sentiment is there...

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BailyRoseMarch 9, 2009

Is David Lynch for iPhone? That shows some balls of iPhone. Love that. "On your Fuck(ing telephone. Get real."

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