SILVERDOCS opening night
Jun. 15th, 2005 12:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
e_clareBecause it can't be said enough: MoveOn wants you to save public broadcasting.
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Today was a pretty good day, in the end. Draggy this morning, and exhausting dealing with volunteers, but we're finally getting people who will be able to take over the registration desk, so the Boss and I might be able to do other things during the day. Felt really disillusioned with the whole "internship" deal -- haven't done anything that I expected to be doing, really, besides carrying a couple of things for production -- and after having to clean out the company fridge on Saturday, and fielding all sorts of questions that I don't know the answers to, just because I'm sitting behind the reception desk...I wasn't really looking forward to work.
However, once I got there and got busy, it was good. People are excited, and enthusiastic about helping out. I'm really good at recruiting people to be ushers, and managed to fill a huge need for people (although we still need more, so if y'all know anyone who wants a free t-shirt and a chance to see some free movies...).
I even managed to make it to the opening night film, Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream. Director Stuart Samuels considers the five "true" Midnight Movies to be El Topo, Pink Flamingos, The Harder They Come, Rocky Horror, and Eraserhead -- although the film talked about Night of the Living Dead and Reefer Madness as well. Samuels made good use of archival materials, especially footage of audiences. Very cool. I highly recommend that anyone who's interested in the rise of the cult film check out the film.
And in closing...I took pictures. But my camera's being weird, so they'll go up tomorrow. Cheers.
EDIT: the photos
The post-show view of the outside of the theater.
And this is the view from the Metro platform -- I basically took it just to see the spotlights, which are in front of the Discovery building.
I'll try to take more pictures the rest of the week, and see if I can come up with some fun stuff.
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Today was a pretty good day, in the end. Draggy this morning, and exhausting dealing with volunteers, but we're finally getting people who will be able to take over the registration desk, so the Boss and I might be able to do other things during the day. Felt really disillusioned with the whole "internship" deal -- haven't done anything that I expected to be doing, really, besides carrying a couple of things for production -- and after having to clean out the company fridge on Saturday, and fielding all sorts of questions that I don't know the answers to, just because I'm sitting behind the reception desk...I wasn't really looking forward to work.
However, once I got there and got busy, it was good. People are excited, and enthusiastic about helping out. I'm really good at recruiting people to be ushers, and managed to fill a huge need for people (although we still need more, so if y'all know anyone who wants a free t-shirt and a chance to see some free movies...).
I even managed to make it to the opening night film, Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream. Director Stuart Samuels considers the five "true" Midnight Movies to be El Topo, Pink Flamingos, The Harder They Come, Rocky Horror, and Eraserhead -- although the film talked about Night of the Living Dead and Reefer Madness as well. Samuels made good use of archival materials, especially footage of audiences. Very cool. I highly recommend that anyone who's interested in the rise of the cult film check out the film.
And in closing...I took pictures. But my camera's being weird, so they'll go up tomorrow. Cheers.
EDIT: the photos
The post-show view of the outside of the theater.
And this is the view from the Metro platform -- I basically took it just to see the spotlights, which are in front of the Discovery building.
I'll try to take more pictures the rest of the week, and see if I can come up with some fun stuff.
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