aandrade5 wrote:

(Jan 22 2007 @ 12:32am)

oye,



i was highly impressesd by the fact that you pointed out the devaluation of the artist in Condo, needless to say not many people would come out and be bold enough to say it. i wasnt involved with the project,i'm just another faceless voice in the wilderness i must say.there's a rich culture in Africa that still has to be conquered besides AIDS andd blood diamonds, and my story Legend of the Stolen Guitar is one that's gonna send a culture shock to that segment of the Afro-American community that refuses to identify with their roots. the people that have been blessed to read the script before i started shopping it are already calling me Africa's answer to Spielberg.

sitka wrote:

(Jan 21 2007 @ 03:40pm)

Good for you Austilo Handriade. I still don't have any money for you but hopefully others do. I can not quite understand why you have had such a strong reaction to my message. Were you involved with Condo Painting? If so in what capcity? Are you offended by my sentiments regarding the film, or in accord with them? Or are you just another viewer who had a reaction, if so what was your reaction? My familiarity with South African TV and cinema is non-existent. I suspect I am not unusual in this as far as Americans go--not so much because of lack of interest but because of lack of access. I can't assure however you that I would be interested even if the material was accessible. If one is Japanese the world accepts your contempt for conquered cultures, if you're American the zeitgeist states that you should engage in an endless pretzle logic. Americans at large are now programed to find other cultures we have conquered culturally and spiritrually superior to our own. How charming, how politically correct, and how so fundamentally empty. Superiors win because of their superiority not because of some unwholsome accident. The failure to understand this is what relegates one to obscurity. So tell me what is in interest in what I wrote?

aandrade5 wrote:

(Jan 20 2007 @ 02:50pm)

My name is Austilo Handriade. I'm a veteran Entertainment Journalist from Zimbabwe I've covered sports and music from South Africa, London to Hollywood with a popular column in DRUM Magazine of South Africa, the biggest publication on the continent. I was a producer/anchor for MABC TV in Harare, a graduate of the Christian Communications College of Southern Africa, and also did analysis for ZTV at Africa's premiere sports show, The All-Africa Games of 1995. My script, LEGEND OF THE STOLEN GUITAR is already creating a buzz amongst my colleagues at the financial institution in Los Angele where I work ,and they are calling me Africa's answer to Spielberg.



[quote=sitka] (Jan 19 2007 @ 07:47pm)

First I don't have any real money. Second if you're looking for money you should probably identify yourself. Some are worthy, some are not.

[quote=aandrade5] (Jan 19 2007 @ 07:36pm)

Great take I must say. How do i submit my script? I have a gem of a story thats going to cause a huge rapture once turned into a motion picture. I have already secured 80% of the funding and I'm looking for an investor to bring in the other 20%.

[quote=sitka] (Jan 19 2007 @ 06:20pm)

I must say that I felt very differently. I posted on this earlier but in entirely the wrong place. To be susinct--I felt sorry for the artist. The documentarist appeared to me to be so self absorbed and intent on being "edgy" that the artist was lost in the mix. This is an interesting and odd artist whose thesis is overwhelmed by the documentarist's autistic indulgences-the documentarist manages to make the artist mariginal and devalued while superficially lauding him. In the end I found it dull and annoying. But please feel free to set me straight.

[quote=ksv123] (Aug 28 2006 @ 08:33am)

I just watched this film sunday afternoon, I loved it.



It was fascinating to watch the transition of the painting take place over time.



Who was the older gentleman that Condo made the plunger painting with in the film? His last name was Kansas.



Thanks

Ken