Filmmaker Mr Minio
 

I'm a little nervous about making this thread, but @Swan encouraged me to. I've recently started making little shorts completely on my own. It's been a lot of fun because it's spontaneous - I get out my phone and I will just start shooting stuff. Then, I take the footage and try to edit it all into some sort of short film. So far, very short - they haven't really passed the 5 minute mark yet.

It's really just filmmaking practice. I think the more I just make stuff, the better I'm going to get, and the more I will figure myself out as a filmmaker. But it's also SO MUCH FREAKING FUN. FRICK. So here's what I've got so far, and I'll update the thread when I make new stuff (which has been happening quickly lately).

This is my first film: Reveries of the Life Once Lived:

https://youtu.be/t7L7xZWAXQU

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Not getting any audio here; intentional?

The film is meant to be seen with no sound.

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Ah, dig. Just making sure!

As you say, just an experiment, but that's how it all starts, eh? Cool of you to share it (and, in general, cool of MoFos in general to share anything they're working on!). :up:

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Black Ice Part 2? :cool:

Violent / Calm

The concept for this was basically just to have a juxtaposition of "violent" New Year's fireworks night to a "calm" night following it.

With that in mind, this is the first time I executed a pre-meditated concept. I don't think I succeeded with what I had in my head - the biggest issue is I find it kind of drags on and doesn't offer anything that interesting at all. I wasn't able to make it as interesting in the edit, because the shots were all the same kind of thing. I think the ambience adds something to it, though. At least, I hope so.

I also wanted to have classical music over the firework thing, like the genius sequence in Chizuko's Younger Sister where the fireworks explode to triumphant Ode to Joy, and explosions blur the image. Unfortunately, my phone camera probably isn't the best - and I literally just realized my phone was vertical when I recorded it - so I f*cked up. Fortunately, with image rotation, I was able to apply the footage to the other footage shot vertically. I think it's kinda cool, as the upside down image of fireworks makes it look confusing and out of this world - just like this infamous shot in The Man Who Put His Will on Film.

https://youtu.be/yTrq8yn8Yqk

Well, it's often true that filmmakers will copy their heroes. :cool:

Naaah, I'm just too lazy to write my own description. :cool:.

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Omg avant garde

You’ll certainly be an arthouse director ;) I was expecting the second to also be silent. My wife was watching TV, and when the fireworks went off the dogs went mental.

Moar Minio!

I'm just gonna assume those are sweet wrappers. This is my interpretation.
It starts off calm. The camera moves like a gentle hand, filming all of the wrappers at it's one pace. If I'm going by the title then this must be childhood. Then suddenly, BAM, the camera is crushing off of the wrappers and shaking violently. It stops for a moment, but not enough for you to recover. This is the rest of that person's life. One moment in their childhood completely f*cked it to bits and made their life agony. That half-a-second where the camera stops shaking is a brief period in the persons life when they were happy.
Then, end.

Very interesting, it's awesome you're doing something you're passionate about.

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The first video made me think of christmas ornaments. I liked the part where a single car drove by in the second video. Please make more Minio. :D

Parodying @Swan is only funny for so long.

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You need to do one with nunchucks and smack yourself in the face before falling down stairs at a park.

That's more like your kind of video.

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Okay fine, I'll do it, except I don't have nunchucks so I'll have to use my katana.

Greetings, my fellow cinema aficionados.

https://i.imgur.com/WAFaRpt.png
My pilot team: Setsuko Hara, Hisako Yamane, Hideko Takamine.

I'd like to present to you, SETSUKO HARA is my co-pilot. The project was born of my fascination with the actress Setsuko Hara and the cinema of the maverick French director Jean-Luc Godard. Combining archival footage, live action, animation, pinku eiga, porn, CAT III, scat, Nazi propaganda, Communist propaganda, American propaganda, Vegan propaganda, Bach, Bachus, Offenbach and Schwarzenegger's "I'll be back", SETSUKO HARA is my co-pilot will be the most interesting film this year bar none.

A post-Godardian, post-post-Brechtian video essay inspired by the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze that talks through cinema, about cinema, on cinema and with cinema, and undeniably expresses its author's enormous love for cinema not only as a medium, but also as means of living, means of expression and fulfillment.

Attempting to diffuse and reinvent the amalgamation of consciously put together pieces of philosophical mutations, augmentations, disseminations, integrations and digressions while denying the narrational structure of cinema, Mr Minio's newest film tries to destroy the cinema we know and replace it with a sheer molecular force charged with the power of P'taah and Ashtar Sheran, and looked after by the one and only orgone-master: Lord Gorloj.

The moment the movie is finished, it will ascend to the Heavens, so that only the proudest and purest Earthlings will ever be able to see it in its entirety. However, thanks to its author's benevolence, the teaser trailer of the film is available for all sky gazers and Earth dwellers to see.

https://youtu.be/_P5BFPG0Mfo