Just a quick update to let everyone know about the 2012 Renegade Picture Show season. We’re working on a schedule of events right now and should be up and running this Spring! We can’t wait to get back to it.
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RPS 20 Show Report – Reel Rock Film Tour 2011
Last Saturday we hosted the 2011 Reel Rock Film Tour as our 20th Renegade Picture Show. Backwoods sponsored the event – which was really cool of them. It was held at Rocktown on the back of the building where there is a large white screen painted – same place that many other RPSs have been shown. In addition to the film there was a band before the show. This gave me the opportunity to have to build a stage. The band, Sanburke (I think they were called) did a great job. We had a sizable turnout for the show – not sure how many people but I would estimate it was on the order of 60-75. The weather was beautiful, the films were stellar, and overall it appeared that audience really enjoyed the experience. As far as the technical stuff, the sound was superb, the projector (the same one I’ve used for 5 years running) continues to beam big and bright without a hiccup, and the playing of the show was smooth. For future plans, I’m working on trying to pull-off some sort of Halloween spectacle – not sure what it will consist of yet – but I have a few more days to figure it out.
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Renegade Picture Show – 2011 Season
It’s July here in Oklahoma and we are already in the midst of a major heatwave with no sign of relief. With highs in the low hundreds and nighttime lows sill in the 80s, it’s difficult to get psyched about sitting outside in the sweltering heat at 10 pm and enjoying anything. I say this only because I’m a little frustrated we missed the very small window of “mild” weather in March that would have been the beginning of this 2011 RPS season. And now here we are, in summer. I would liked to have said that we’ve already hosted four or five shows in this, our fifth season for the Renegade Picture Show, but its not so.
At this point the best we can hope for is a slight cool-down that will allow us to host a major showing.
The one good thing is that we still have plenty of time. And summer can’t last forever – can it?
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RPS 19 Show Report – Super 8 Film Night
Our Super 8 film night last Saturday evening was great. We watched a total of 17 short films ranging in length from about 2 minutes to 20 minutes. The program was divided into two half with the first half consisting of a number of Super 8 films I’ve found online. After a brief intermission we screened the second half of the program which featured shorts from the 2010 Cambridge International Super 8 Film Festival. Overall the response was good and I think people really enjoyed most (if not all) of the films. The next show – our 20th – will have to be a good one. I’m thinking about what to do. Ideas?
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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.