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View Article  MONSTERS IN NEW YORK: THE WOLFMAN


Majestic Micro Movies is excited to welcome a new director into the ranks, the super versatile Matt Barry, and the start of a new series, Monsters In New York.  Check it out:

The Wolfman In New York

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View Article  MICRO MOVIE ESSAY: CHAMPS CONTRE CHAMPS

                                                                                                                                                                   [Photo by Jae Song]

Another micro movie essay on cinema, from the usual suspects, Kendra and the three J's -- Champs Contre Champs, French for shot-countershot, one of Jean-Luc Godard's bêtes noires. Find out why!

Micro Movie Essay #4 -- Champs Contre Champs:

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Prescription for the future of cinema -- go back to the beginning and rethink everything.

View Article  MICRO MOVIE ESSAY: TRACKING


Kendra, James, Joe and Jae return in a new essay on cinema -- Tracking! -- which critics are already calling the greatest micro movie ever made.  Personally, I don't see how it can ever be surpassed.  Craig Schober records sound and helps move the platform!  David Ure assists!  The screen explodes with excitement!

Micro Movie Essay #3 -- Tracking:

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Prescription for the future of cinema -- go back to the beginning and rethink everything.

View Article  TRIPLE PORTRAIT


Kendra Elliott, star of two essays on cinema by Jae Song from Majestic Micro Movies , draws remarkable pictures and has a blog, Human Faced Dog.

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View Article  MICRO MOVIE ESSAY: SHALLOW FOCUS


Kendra Elliot returns in the stunning sequel to Deep Focus . . .

Micro Movie Essay #2 -- Shallow
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Prescription for the future of cinema -- go back to the beginning and rethink everything.
View Article  MICRO MOVIE ESSAY: DEEP FOCUS


In a stunning departure which has left the film world breathless, Majestic Micro Movies launches a new series -- miniature essays on cinema by Jae Song and friends, dedicated with much love to J-L G.  First up:

Micro Movie Essay #1 --
Deep Focus:

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Prescription for the future of cinema -- go back to the beginning and rethink everything.
View Article  THERE'S ALWAYS ANOTHER BAR


. . . at the dark end of the street.

Hugh McCarten stars in the newest Noir Bars: New York offering from Majestic Micro Movies -- a series of extremely short tales of lost souls in desolate bars on the boulevard of broken dreams . . . now playing on a computer or portable device near you:

Noir Bar #8


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Watch all the films in the series as they roll out, then order a stiff drink and try to forget them.

View Article  IN RETROSPECT


You know what that means . . .

The latest offering in the Noir Bars: New York series from Majestic Micro Movies -- extremely short tales of lost souls in dark bars on dead-end streets . . . n
ow playing on a computer or portable device near you:

Noir Bar #7

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View Article  A DARKER SHADE OF NOIR


A new offering in the Noir Bars: New York series from Majestic Micro Movies -- extremely short tales of lost souls in dark bars on dead-end streets . . . this one featuring Kristy Jordan, who is not guilty, baby . . . n
ow playing on a computer or portable device near you:

Noir Bar #6

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View Article  DUBAI BLUES


A new offering in the Noir Bars: New York series from Majestic Micro Movies -- extremely short tales of lost souls in dark bars on dead-end streets . . . this one featuring Matt Barry and n
ow playing on a computer or portable device near you:

Noir Bar #5

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View Article  NOIR BARS #4


The fourth movie in the Noir Bars: New York series from Majestic Micro Movies -- extremely short tales of lost souls in desolate bars on dead-end streets. 
Now playing on a computer or portable device near you -- a report from girlworld:

Noir Bar #4

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View Article  A NEW APPROACH TO NARRATIVE


Following up on a previous essay, "An Experiment In Narrative", Matt Barry has written a broader survey of the state of Internet cinema, in which he argues that the term "short film", with all its (increasingly irrelevant) cultural baggage, needs to be abandoned.  Distinguishing something as a "short film" implies that regular films are "long", but today, on the Internet, regular films are short -- long films are the exception.  In some ways it would make more sense to refer to those things they're showing at the multiplexes as "long films".



The question, of course, is one of orientation in a time when the mainstream of cinema is shifting.  I would guess that for most people under the age of forty, most of the films they watch in any given year, by far, are short Internet movies -- feature-length films, seen in theaters or on DVD, would run a distant second.  So what do we mean when we talk about "the movies" today?  Where is the real center of the form?

Matt also makes a useful distinction between "narrative" and "story".  To my way of thinking, a narrative, a logical exposition of a sequence of events, is not by any means always a story.  To me, a story is something that makes you lean forward and say, "Wait a minute, how did this happen -- what's going to happen next?"  A narrative doesn't automatically do this.

Check out the essay here:

"A New Approach To Narrative"
View Article  PARADISE RECLAIMED

                                                                                           [Photo © 1960 William Klein]

An excerpt from a 2000 profile of Jean-Luc Godard by Richard Brody in The New Yorker:


During our interview, Godard referred to the New Wave not only as "liberating" but also as "conservative."  On the one hand, he and his friends saw themselves as a resistance movement against "the occupation of the cinema by people who had no business there."  On the other, this movement had been born in a museum, the Cinémathèque: Godard and his peers were steeping themselves in a cinematic tradition -- that of silent films -- that had disappeared almost everywhere else.  Thus, from the beginning, Godard saw the cinema as a lost paradise that had to be reclaimed.


If love of the cinema of the past doesn't point the way to new, revolutionary work -- as love of ancient Greek art sparked the innovations of the Renaissance -- then it's just an exercise in nostalgia.


In other words, the cinema of the past can be alive as a cultural force, as it was for the young French cinéastes of the Fifties, just as ancient Greek art was alive for the artists of the Renaissance.

The parade has not gone by -- it may even be passing this way:

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View Article  NOIR BARS #3


The third movie in the Noir Bars: New York series from Majestic Micro Movies -- extremely short tales of lost souls in desolate bars on dead-end streets. 
Now playing on a computer or portable device near you -- a whole chain reaction of disaster:

Noir Bar #3

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[Image by Alfred Stieglitz, 1903]
View Article  ANOTHER NOIR BAR


Now playing on a computer or portable device near you . . . the second movie in the Noir Bars: New York series from Majestic Micro Movies -- extremely short tales of lost souls in dark bars on dead-end streets.  Have a look:

Noir Bar #2

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Watch all the films in the series as they roll out, then order a stiff drink and try to forget them.

[Some explicit language in this one.]