The envelope please

M3’s first Micro Movie Marathon screened on July 20, 2011. We’re having some snafus with the playlists on our YouTube channel – YouTube.com/michiganmoviemakers – but they seem to work as embeds here. Go figure.

The Major Awards…

1) Surreal So Real – Yordan (Danny) Lazarov, “Imitator”
2) Supreme Extremes – Patrick and Luke Kelly, “Wild Survival”
3) Beyond Awesome – Jamey Barnard, “Roseville Cemetery”

Patrick Kelly’s Wild Survival composer and co-star Luke Kelly brandishing the FIBERGLASS SUITCASE, symbolic of auspicious opposites and M33M’s Major Award for “Supreme Extremes”. The suitcase is a metaphor for the Tao – it is the emptiness within that makes it useful. The solid implies space, and the thing is all about the nothing. “Supreme Extremes” acknowledges a movie’s fortunate balance of motion and stillness, conquest and failure, shadow and light, sharp and soft, tragedy and humor.

We’re waiting for animator Yordan (Danny) Lazarov to pass us his address so we can ship him the CURSED CERAMIC MONKEY LAMP,  Major Award for M33M’s “Surreal So Real” category. The awfulness of the CCML is compelling – it’s so freaky and disturbing one can hardly look away. This perfectly symbolizes the quest for distilled experience that only those with great courage and a constant fixation on the infinite dare undertake. The kind of folks who create movies that can bend our perception to the point where it wraps back around mobius-wise to perfect reality, to truth, to the now.

Finally, Jamey Barnard took the flagship M33M Major Award, “Beyond Awesome” for “Roseville Cemetery”. “Beyond Awesome” is symbolized by the FIREPLACE TENDER, reminding us of the ancient origins of storytelling, when the shaman tended the fire and told the tales that kept the tribe strong. Jamey is especially fascinated with the broom, which he is contemplating making into a puppet.

The whole shootin’ match… M33M July 2011.