Except I’m 29!

Morgan Dusatko, 20, is a Seattle videographer who made a film about a day in the life of a human in a hot-dog suit.

There is something about a costume, Dusatko says. He has also filmed a man who became a roadside attraction by dressing in a rabbit suit to advertise an Airport Way roofing company.

In the roles people play every day, humans all wear various disguises, Dusatko said. “A hot-dog suit just makes it obvious.”

Here is the whole article.

Dear Brad Hutchinson,

 

Thank you for submitting The Hot Dog Cycle to the 2009 CFC Worldwide Short Film

Festival. This year we received a record number of over 3900 submissions.

With a limited number of slots available, our programming decisions were exceptionally challenging and we were only able to select a fraction of the number of marvelous films sent to us for consideration. Unfortunately we were unable to programme your work; however we are pleased to say that the WSFF is committed to the promotion of every film submitted to us through our Digital Marketplace.

 

Every short film submitted will be available in the Festival Marketplace through our Digital Marketplace Library, accessible to industry delegates including buyers, distributors, and festival programmers looking for all manner of films. Your contact information will be published in our Marketplace Catalogue, provided to all festival delegates. Last year over 400 shorts were picked up for broadcast or distribution as a result of being included in the Marketplace, and the Festival responds to inquiries year-round by festival programmers, buyers and distributors about Marketplace films.

 

We invite all filmmakers to attend the festival and participate in the Marketplace, if you wish to apply to attend as a Marketplace Delegate please visit our website:

http://www.worldwideshortfilmfest.com/guest_info/ .

 

This year the festival will run from June 16-21 2009 in Toronto and will feature 12 programmes of competitive screenings, and special screenings including the perennially popular Midnight Mania, Sci-Fi Shorts, Slap ‘n’ Tickle and Celebrity Shorts.  The festival also hosts a Symposium on the art and commerce of short filmmaking, and the Festival Business Centre.

 

We thank you for your interest in the CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival and encourage you to continue sending us your work in the future.

 

 Best regards,

 

 

 Eileen Arandiga

 Festival Director

 CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival

 www.worldwideshortfilmfest.com

 

Several of my movies will be screening in the next few months.  Here is what they are where you can find them.

Jesus’ Package – Made for the 24 hour film race, I assistant directed this 3 minute movie about two superstitious vagabonds and a package they receive from a mysterious stranger.

Playing at:

7pm

Harvard Exit Theatre

807 East Roy at Harvard 

Seattle, WA 98102

Next is The Death of Diogenes.  A movie that I wrote, shot and directed especially for the Georgetown Super 8 Film Festival.  It is a modern retelling of the death of Diogenes, the Greek philosopher know for his foul attitude and nicknamed “the Dog.” 

The screening will happen in Downtown Georgetown.  I don’t think the venue is totally locked down but it will play multiple times during the day.  The fest starts at 2pm and the outdoor cinema starts at 9pm.

More information will be available at Button Makers the day of the showing.

ButtonMakers

6012 12th Ave S

Seattle WA 

GS8 Festival Poster

The Hot Dog Cycle was accepted to the Seattle True Independent Film Festival and will be playing in a collection of shorts.

Tuesday June 9th at 6:15

The Jewel Box Theatre

2322 2nd Ave

Seattle, WA 98121

You can find out more here.

Also I movie I directed and edited is premiering at SIFF.  More on that to come.

We need to fill these seats!  If possible, please come out to any and all of these screenings!

Thanks for reading.

In excitement,

Morgan

The Journal of Short Film.

Here is an intriguing distribution strategy.  Check it out.

an old blog from when I was in school.

Here are some of the better posts:

This one is about a shrimp.

This one is about chimps and cyber altruism.

This one is about the fluxus art movement.

And this brain bender is about DJ Spooky and AfroFuturism.

This last one is about a Chineese blog.

Morgan

Here are some pictures I took at a photoshoot I had on New Years Day 2009. 

I really like how these turned out.  This is how she really is, and when I can capture that with the camera then I know I have done a good job.

http://opensourcecinema.org/

I just wanted to write a quick post and share this everyone.

This is a movie about the open source movement.  In fact, the movie itself (or at least a version of the movie) is open source itself.  It features Girl Talk, Gilberto Gil (Minister of Culture of Brazil), and Lawrence Lessig (the creator of the Creative Commons and author of many books on the subject of copyright law).

The issue here is specifically about music and remixing.  I have thought about this issue a lot, from the point of view of a musician that is using unlicensed samples, from the point of view of a DJ, and as a musician trying to make a few dollars on my “original” compositions.

An initial question is: what is this issue like from the perspective of a musician?  What is the issue about for the record industry?  The musicians that make remixed or sample based music are usually using technology in ways that were unimaginable in the past.  When a major music studio says “you can’t use this,” or that what a remix artist does with sound isn’t valid (as a commodity) unless you have enough money to pay for the licencing fees for the samples, that basically comes down to corporations trying the shut down a whole art movement.

I see remix artist as the forerunners of and an extention of the postmodern art movement.  They express the way this movement alive today.  In the music industry, mash up and sample based artists like Girl Talk are alive and striving.  So to connect this thought to the issue:  Copyright laws were first set up to deter plagiarism.  Sample based music however is a different animal.  Owning a Girl Talk album would never deter anyone from buying a Jackson 5 album.  They are not the same thing.  Not even close.  So using laws that were designed for plagiarism and enforcing them on artist that are re-purposing cultural memes makes me think that the record industry has another agenda.

By the way, this has nothing to do with the illegal downloading of music or other media.  I don’t think they should be lumped into the same conversation.

I don’t want to write a diatribe about this, there are many books and lectures about this by people who know way more about the subject that I do.  I think it’s important.  I think that the debate is about way more that about the major labels and bands making a few dollars.  

Here are a few websites that explore this more:

http://www.lessig.org/blog/

http://www.djspooky.com/

Thanks,

Morgan

It’s In the P-I, a short film I produced and edited about the closing of Seattle’s oldest newspaper will be shown at the Hollywood theater in Portland OR.

This movie was made for the 2009 Documentarty Challenge.  It was directed by my good friend Bradley Hutchinson and was written by the wonderful people at the Common Language Project (who are in Pakistan right now reporting on the situation in that country). 

You can see a few blog posts about It’s In the P-I it here.  

Doc Challenge Preview screening
Hollywood Theatre
4122 NE Sandy Blvd
Portland, OR 97212
(503) 281-4215
7PM

From the email they sent to us…

Congratulations on being accepted to Seattle True Independent Film Festival!  We’re really looking forward to this year’s festival and we’re glad that you’ll be a part of it.  Below are some festival details and a list of things that we’ll need from you beforehand. 

The festival runs from June 5^th through the 14^th.  We’re still finalizing our program and will be sending out the screening dates for all of the films within the next week.  It’ll probably be around 2 weeks or so before tickets are available for purchase.  We’ll send an update with firm dates once that gets worked out. ..

STIFF will select the winner of our festival and present that filmmaker with the Grand Jury Award.  The winner will receive a 1 hour meeting with a Hollywood Video acquisitions executive (travel not included).

 

Grand Jury Award

The award ceremony will be on Saturday, June 13th at 6:15 PM.  There will be some films shown after the awards.  You will get in with your filmmaker’s badges and we’ll have some tickets available for purchasing as well.

 

Press contacts

We will continue to hound the local press (in a good way) but you are welcome to reach out to them as well to promote your screening.  We’ll be sending out another email with a list of press contacts before long as well.  

Q&A’s

We love them and so do our audiences.  If you and/or someone close to the film could do a Q&A after the film that would be great. Our audience loves the interaction with the filmmakers, crew, and cast and we feel it’s a big part of the experience for everyone.  Just look for one of our crew or volunteers the day of your show and we can work out the details.

Badge Info

 

 

Each filmmaker will receive a pair of all-access badges. 

For my birthday a friend of mine got me an album from some Canadian guy called Stevedore Steve. You can see more abut him here: http://www.backtothesugarcamp.com/steveindex.htm. You can check out the album here: http://www.backtothesugarcamp.com/songsof.htm .

We listened to the record and there was a really great song called “This Boy’s Got To Be Free.”

Here are the lyrics:

I’ve seen the dust along the highways,
I’ve seen the rails from sea to sea,
I’ve seen the clouds float free across the summer sky,
That ain’t the last they’ve seen of me.

I don’t mean to hurt you woman,
You’ve been real good to me,
But like a good loving woman try to understand,
This boy’s got to be free…

This boy’s got to be free.

There were lights on that ocean freighter,
As I sailed off in the night,
Now when you wake in the morning and open your eyes,
You’ll find I’m long gone and out of sight.

I don’t mean to hurt you woman,
You’ve been real good to me,
But like a good loving woman try to understand,
This boy’s got to be free…

This boy’s got to be free.

I know I’ll always remember,
With a heartache and a sigh,
When the midnight tides roll high and wide,
I sailed off into the night.

I know I’ll always remember,
with a tear stained memory,
That woman that I loved and left behind,
that’s the price to be free.

This boy’s got to be free.

I also recorded a quick cover of this song as a demo for the Stevedore. You can listen to it here.

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