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 Melody
   
Location: St Paul, Minnesota
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< on 10/5/2009 11:07 PM >
|  | | | On Saturday Oct. 24 at 9:25 PM...my award-winning independent documentary URBAN EXPLORERS: INTO THE DARKNESS will screen at the Hot Springs International Documentary Festival. The info will be up on the festival website shortly.
http://www.hsdfi.org/festivalinfo.htm
More info about the documentary at www.urbanexplorersfilm.com
SHORT SYNOPSIS: Documentary filmmaker Melody Gilbert follows Max Action, Slim
Jim, Danarchy, Katwoman, Turobzutek and BHV-Fred as they infiltrate aging lunatic asylums, government sites, faded tourist attractions, sewers, drains, and even the forbidden Catacombs in Paris. Many explore armed with only a camera, often snapping astonishingly beautiful photos.
• “Fascinating… particularly at a comfortable armchair’s distance.” –Variety
I hope to be there, so let me know if you are coming! And please spread the word. The festival is having some kind of fancy gala that night so we want to fill the theater with people who will appreciate the movie instead of the hob-nobbing with the fancy people. Tx Melody
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RobertB
  
Location: Skeeterville, TX
Gender: Male
Maybe I shouldn't be using my real name...
| |  | Re: Screening of UE documentary in Arkansas
<Reply # 1 on 10/6/2009 4:35 PM >
| | | | Dunno if I can make it, though it would be way cool. I know some good camping spots on the lake, so accommodations aren't a problem if showers are optional. 
Meanwhile, I added you to my Netflix queue (where the release date is "unknown"). Your other documentaries look cool -- I've been wanting to see "A Live Without Pain" for a long time, and didn't know it was on "Watch Instantly". It's queued up now, too.
J'ai toujours fait une prière à Dieu, qui est fort courte.
La voici: "Mon Dieu, rendez nos ennemis bien ridicules!"
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Melody
Location: St Paul, Minnesota
| | Re: Screening of UE documentary in Arkansas
<Reply # 2 on 10/7/2009 7:26 PM >
| | | | Hey thanks for checking out my other docs, too!
And I bet I can find a way to snag a few tix for free to the Hot Springs screening. Maybe that will convince you to attend? Would love to have some UE folks there to represent...
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Melody
Location: St Paul, Minnesota
| | Re: Screening of UE documentary in Arkansas
<Reply # 3 on 10/15/2009 10:42 PM >
| | | | Hey aren't there any UE peeps in Arkansas?
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istakebroad
  
Location: Arkansas
Gender: Male
| |  |  | | Re: Screening of UE documentary in Arkansas
<Reply # 5 on 10/15/2009 11:07 PM >
| | | | I was planning on being there (I'm about 2 hours away), but I work Saturday nights and couldn't find anyone to replace me for the evening.
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Melody
Location: St Paul, Minnesota
| | Re: Screening of UE documentary in Arkansas
<Reply # 6 on 10/16/2009 4:02 PM >
| | | | Istakebroad...bummer that you have to work Sat. night. If it turns out you can find someone to replace you, let me know and I will def get you tix for the screening. It would be great to have a UE person there!
Ardamass...I would love to screen the movie in Dallas. Any ideas where would be good?
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Ardamass
Location: Dallas Tx
Gender: Female
Coming to a Drain near you
| | | | Re: Screening of UE documentary in Arkansas
<Reply # 7 on 10/16/2009 5:28 PM >
| | | | The Angelika Theater, one of the movie studio grills, and maybe the Inwood Theater. The Angelika and Inwood are both indy theaters on the festival circuit. And the movie studio grills play films form the film schools here so you have a pretty good chance there too.
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Noah Vale
Location: Portland, Or
It's nobler to never get paid, than to bank on shit and dismay
| | | | Re: Screening of UE documentary in Arkansas
<Reply # 8 on 10/19/2009 3:12 AM >
|  | | | I second inwood. You don't have to go far to pop a manhole into mill creek.
"Dallas is a magnificent and wide open city, and I'm deeply envious of any urban explorers who have the good fortune to live there." -Ninj. |
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RobertB
Location: Skeeterville, TX
Gender: Male
Maybe I shouldn't be using my real name...
| | | Re: Screening of UE documentary in Arkansas
<Reply # 9 on 10/20/2009 3:30 PM >
| | | | I just watched the UE documentary of "Echoes of Forgotten Places" over the weekend, and while it was ok, it was very much missing the human element. "Echoes" was clearly about the places, not the people.
After watching Melody's previous doc, "A Life Without Pain", I strongly suspect that she's going to pick up exactly there, with the people and personalities. "Life" was ostensibly about a bizarre medical issue, but it was really about the kids, and the parents and siblings who were touched by the "disorder". It didn't try to teach me anything about myelin or the types of nerves involved -- in fact, I don't think there was an interview with a doctor at all! But despite that, or perhaps *because* of that, it was a gripping, involving, emotional experience.
That's what I'm expecting from "Into the Darkness". The atmospherics of urban exploration are cool and funky, but you can get that from browsing the UEDB -- or from "Echoes of Forgotten Places", if you like video of snow falling gently into an abandoned brick factory. But I don't think Melody will stick to that -- I think she'll make it about the explorers. We're a unique and eclectic bunch, from gregarious party animals to middle-aged single dads (heh) to silent loners. The only thing we have in common is an interest in the structures that society has discarded or marginalized. I think she'll be able to find a compelling story in the people of UE, not just the places.
It doesn't look like I'll make it to Hot Springs this weekend, either... so I do hope it makes it to Dallas! Don't forget Austin, either... there's bound to be someplace there.
J'ai toujours fait une prière à Dieu, qui est fort courte.
La voici: "Mon Dieu, rendez nos ennemis bien ridicules!"
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altaria
Location: Austin, TX
Gender: Female
| | Re: Screening of UE documentary in Arkansas
<Reply # 10 on 10/23/2009 11:10 PM >
| | | | It'd be awesome to have in Austin! Alamo Drafthouse loves doing little stuff like that as much as they possibly can. I've gone to several showings of smaller documentaries there and it's always awesome!
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wyant50
Location: DFW
Gender: Male
Masaj Marod
| | Re: Screening of UE documentary in Arkansas
<Reply # 11 on 10/29/2009 6:59 AM >
| | | | Check out movie taverns, its like $700 to rent and show a film. If you sell over X amount in concessions then it is free?
Would love to see this.
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