2005 GLFA Films

Un Message Evidemment

Category: Experimental 01 min: 30 sec
Director: Robert Lawrence

Un Message Evidemment is an ongoing open collaborative film/performance. The performance actions are built around the making an interactive collaborative film. The film is a story about communication. The performance is a communication about story. The film is shot. The film has not been written. The film will be written through mobile phones, voice messages, sms's, email, conversations, random overheard snatches of dialogue and other sounds produced by the participants of various festivals, seminars, workshops, or visitors to www.unmessage.com The initial footage was shot in Paris. More shooting followed in Kuala Lumpur, Tampa, Prague, Vienna, New York, Seoul, Borneo. Shooting will continue. All shots are XCU's of individuals listening to cell phones. In the background of every shot is a dramatic action. No sound is recorded. Sound will be added in post. The ëstory' will be told entirely in the recorded messages that the foreground characters are listening to on their cell phones. These stories will be selected, synthesized and/or adapted from the contributions at this website and other venues. But there is not one story or even one film. Anyone can download footage from the website and make their own message evidemment. U.M.E. examines and transforms the structure of filmmaking. U.M.E. is not 'a film' but an infinite number of hybrid minimalist/structuralist/whammy-films. We don't make it. We don't own it. We are just the instigators of an internet-facilitated media ecology that we hope will carry on just fine without us. Un Message Evidemment is an invitation.

Principle Casts

LEAD ACTOR
chistine colby
john mcgrane
Robert Lawrence

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