This past Friday I attened my first Film Scramble in Downtown Mobile at the Crescent Theater. Mod Mobilian Dot Com and The Crescent Theater certainly did a great job of organizing the event and for the most part the short films were excellant, some of them technically amazing for being made in ten days time. It was a great time even though I had to venture out into downtown alone to attend, but thats nothing a six pack enjoyed at Hopjacks prior to the screeneing couldn't fix.
If you ever get the chance to attend one of these I urge you to do so, even if you hate the films you may just enjoy the hodge podge crowd and learn a few things while you are there.
So without further ado here are the Things I Learned At My First Film Scramble.
Mobile has some very talanted film makers. The originality shown by some was amazing. I mean triplets out to kill twins, and a shoe box taking advantage of a woman. Down right joyus stuff!!
Middle School kid's with boxes on their heads, not entertaining. No matter how much the parents of said children laugh it up.
No matter where you go there is always a know it all and his yes man friend attempting to finger cuff an asian exchange student. At least there was on my aisle. So I moved and stood in the entry way, my expeince got so much better. This guy really thoight he was great. If I heard him say one more thing about ow great he was potryaing Steve Nodine because he looked great in a suit. Please STFU is all I wanted to say.
At one point out of no where a woman ran down the entrance aisle screaming the following about a male who was involved in some way with one of the films. "NAME REDACTED beats women", "NAME REDACTED sucks cock". WOW huh pretty fun shit to learn.
Someone was also apperanty scared of bodily harm as he seemed to beg to sit in he projection booth. He described what sounded like a bald biker who would be coming by to seek him out. "Obviously I don't want to deal with this in the builiding" he said. Drama everywhere I suppose. I made up a back story in my mind that it was about beasteality and the biker was pissed that this young dude had fucked his Yorkie. Hey it made the time pass in line.
It was a great time even though I was alone and knew no one at least in person. Several facebook and Mod Mobilian Dot Com commrades were also there but I was to chciken shit to say hello. Don't give me to much shit about it, I did make new friends last week. Baby Steps I suppose.
To Learn more about Film Scramble go to FilmScramble.Org or check out the FILM page on Mod Mobilian Dot Com
Here are three of this years entries. Enjoy.
Jack Nightburns in Hell
Glitter Box
Dreams of Absent Minded Transgressions
