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Weekly Article by
TIM SULLIVAN

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WEEK OF AUGUST 7, 2000

FILM AT ELEVEN...

It strikes me as odd how many of us refer to our productions as "films". I know that I have in the past, and many of us have done the same. It’s funny because so few of us have actually shot anything on film, much less the movies we’re talking about. Should we be calling anything we do "films"?

Does something need to be shot on film to qualify to be called such? It’s burned so much into the lexicon of popular culture, and especially our movie making culture, to refer to any movie made as a "film" because that is what pretty much every movie made is called…..but why?

Technically anything TEWS has done can’t be called a film, as all we’ve used is various types of video, be it 8 mm, Hi-8, S-VHS or DV. You’ll see that Erik and I very rarely refer to anything we’ve done as a "film" as we know that it’s not shot on film, so therefore isn’t technically a "film" as that refers to the media in which it is shot. Hell, look at Martin Scorcese…. Arguably one of the greatest directors ever (and I probably spelled his name incorrectly… hehehe) and he always refers to his stuff as "picture" yet his stuff is shot on film. I don’t know….maybe it’s classier to refer to your stuff as a "picture", who knows?

However, if you look at it another way, a movie, whether shot on video or film, is still the same basic thing, it just uses a different medium, the name "film" being another form of slang to describe a movie. It’s like calling all brands of facial tissues "Kleenex" or all brands of cotton swabs "Q-Tips", we just do, because that’s the popular name for them. Heck, look at the automotive industry. Cars made by such makers as Toyota and Honda have many manufacturing plants for their cars in North America, yet they are still referred to as imports…..sure there’s legal stuff going on there, but still…. Calling them imports isn’t exactly accurate, but still done. Maybe it’s the same with calling ANY movie a "film".

Then again, maybe it’s the subject matter that allows something to be called a film. Maybe you have to have two people dressed in all black with berets smoking cigarettes (you all know the type) talking about who knows what because I’m already sleeping... maybe THAT makes something a film. Perhaps you can’t have a great action or gangster movie called a "film"…. Perhaps it’s only the artsy stuff. I guess it all boils down to what YOU want to call your stuff. If you want to call the stuff you produce on video a film, so be it. I’ve heard people refer to the stuff they make as crap on tape, so I guess if they can call their stuff that (which would ALSO not be accurate….) then I guess you can call your movies "films" as long as you believe them as such.

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