Renegade Picture Show

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  • Super 8 Film Night! At Silo Art Space – Rocktown – RPS#19

    Super 8 Film Night! At Silo Art Space – Rocktown – RPS#19

    Renegade Picture Show & Aaron W. Gibson present an evening of Super 8 Film Shorts at Rocktown Climbing Gym this coming Saturday. The films vary from far and wide – several were selected as “Best of Fest” from the 2010 Super 8 Festival in Cambridge, England.

    The films vary widely in terms of genre; foreign, quirky, dark, sentimental, experimental…some arre just plain strange. Some are black and white, some color – appearance and… mood all differ. They all have on thing in common – all were shot in the Super 8 film format.

    This is a RARE opportunity to see the state of Super 8 filmmaking today and experience stories told across the globe in a variety of ways.

    This will be the FIRST showing of its type for Renegade and will take place indoors. Yes, indoors at Rocktown, in our Silo Art Space area.

    Hope you all can be there. We’ll do our best to accommodate.

    The show will begin approximately 8:30 pm.
    A personal note from Aaron:

    “I’ve selected films which explore the variety, experiences, and stories as told through Super 8 filmmaking. If you are looking for something truly artistic and vastly outside the “norm” of typical Hollywood movies – this night is for you! Super 8 film shorts, and shorts in general often present themselves more as anecdotes rather than complete stories or thoughts. The best ones leave you wanting more, asking questions, wondering what-if, and intrigued by what was just witnessed. For this reason (and many others) some people steer away from shorts or quickly proclaim one as good or bad. My feeling about this has always been, to say a film is “good” or “bad” is short-sighted – we must first put it in context, reorient our own perspective and ask the question again. And again. Sometimes we have to accept that maybe we just don’t understand. And that’s okay.”

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    A word of caution: Some of the films may explore themes of a more mature/adult nature and all may not be appropriate for age 13 and under – I think I can safely say this will be PG-13.

  • We’ve been blogged…

    It was only a matter of time but the RPS just had it’s first mention in a local OKC events site/blog called wimgo. So I would expect a few new sign-ups on THE LIST and some new faces at the shows.

    To date the RPS has pretty much been a word-of-mouth type affair. That’s because last year (our first year) was kind of a test, so-to-speak. I was nervous each and every show that something might blow up, burn out, short out, or just plain break. It would be a little embarrassing to put all this effort into a show and try to get it to look seamless, fluid and perfect and then – oh shit – the projector just cratered and 50 people are sitting there looking a blank wall in pitch black.

    I guess the chance of that happening is still there but things seem to be pretty well under control. And if it did happen, well, the show was free anyway, right?

    But I digress. The direction I was headed was really in the progression of the show itself; it’s popularity. Of course it will never be “mainstream” nor do I care for it to be. It’s great the way it is. Though a larger audience is usually more fun, even if we have a showing of 6 people, as long as those 6 people enjoyed the show, had a good time, and want to come back, I’m happy.

    For me, the experience of watching a movie on the back of a building while sitting on the ground outside and drinking a beer is so much different than inside on a couch or a theater. I like the sound of passing trains, fireworks from the ballpark, and helicopters whirring overhead. It’s all part of the experience.

    Again…I digress….

    The Flaming Lips show a few weekends ago put us (Rocktown and the Renegade Picture Show) on the map as a “venue.” And now, I think the future holds increased popularity. Especially if we get more involved with the Dead Center film festival – which is very likely.

    So I will end this drawn out post by simply saying – if the RPS gets more popular, more press, more whatever – that’s cool. Let it be. We’ll keep showing movies.

    Welcome to all the new viewers!