Who We Are & What We Want

A couple of people that want to see the dialog of film evolve away from the super commercially saturated enterprise it has become. We want to see the independent filmmaker and the independent film-watcher meeting in a head-on collision that brings sparks & new life. We want to a place where people actively contribute to the content, so that we grow into new territory, making space we haven't yet dreamed. We want to bridge the gap between blogs and communities. We want the intelligence of blogs, but put into a forum where they can been seen, read, and answered, so that we are not isolated in our cells of contemplation.

Or the brass tack: We want a format for artists to show off their work and aficionados to adore and critique. But we want this to be a neutral space, charged with the electricity of Frankenstein coming to life, but also a understanding that it doesn't happen over night and that sometimes the most creative thing is not knowing and being able to ask, and being able to listen and offer advice.


How We Became Tin

We weren't always tin. There was a time when we hadn't seen a movie, hadn't made a movie, a time before Star Wars and our own first feeble attempts at storyboarding  . . .  but there was always the possibility of the movie. Or maybe I should say: before I even knew what a movie was, there was a space for it, a desire for it. And that desire was conception, the merging of material life and an abstract hunger. 

And after that is blur of television screens and crayons: the scrabble to make something, anything, even a mother's day card which would express.

And we've been stumbling along ever since, moving slowly through the stages <series of images of evolution> We found cameras and books, photoshop and finalcut.

We have learned to walk up right and even grown opposable thumbs to work out the details.

We have built ourselves armor,  a tin suit to defend against the elements.

But we're not *there* yet. We're not quite human. Maybe we never will be.

But we hope. And we hope that hope in evolution is hunger enough to keep rolling forward.