Re: Rational film screening?: The Abs-Tract
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Brent Cooper
Jan 22, 2015, 4:07:04 PM1/22/15
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Hi Rationalists!
My apologies, somehow I missed replies from three of you back in October (Kenneth, Andrew, Eric). I only just saw them, while digging through old emails.
I would very much like to screen The Abs•Tract with Rationalists, and see what we can make of it. Everyone is surprised, I'm used to that reaction. What are our screening options?
Some new developments: It is a selection in the Vancouver Web Fest, March 6-8th, but they will just show 3 episodes. The film is already online (36 minutes), and is also watchable in episodes (18 total), plus extra shorts that aren't part of the film (and more to come). This is a transmedia project, so the ideas extend far beyond the film.
Here is a 15 second teaser I made for the web fest: http://youtu.be/gTC5cBTXwCU
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Eric Chisholm <kyt...@gmail.com> wrote:
+1 not what I expected.
I'd be up for watching this during a meetup
On Oct 17, 2014 2:03 AM, "Andrew McKnight" <the...@gmail.com> wrote:--Brent, this is hilarious!--On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Kenneth Bruskiewicz <kenneth.b...@gmail.com> wrote:Huh. I just watched the trailer, and that wasn't what I expected. Looks promising, might be fun.--On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Brent Cooper <br...@badbuoyfilms.com> wrote:--Dear Rationalists,I'd like to share a very rational film I made, called The Abs-Tract: Core Philosophy. I've had some success screening it around Vancouver, but its really meant for a thinking crowd. The full 36-min film is film is online in, but I think it would be great to have a screening and discussion if you are interested.See the full film and trailer at the links in my signature. Here is a review in The Georgia Straight.I'd appreciate if someone is willing to take some initiative on helping, as I don't have the means, or know anyone in this group. Thank you,
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Kenneth Bruskiewicz
Jan 22, 2015, 6:21:11 PM1/22/15
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Hey Brent,
I'm going to be opportunistic here. I'm associated with the Lifespan Society of BC as a volunteer for the SFU chapter, and have been looking for an event to kick off the club. There has been decent overlap between the rationalists and Lifespan previously (read: we're all friends), so I would be interested in doing a theatre-based screening up on the SFU campus (either Vancouver or Burnaby), sponsored by Lifespan, and inviting all the rationalists over. If we can find a time that works for everyone, you'll get us as an audience and then some.
I've CC'd this to the core people of Lifespan BC.
What say you?
Brent Cooper
Feb 2, 2015, 9:13:03 PM2/2/15
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Hi Kenneth,
I think that's a great idea. Sorry again for my late reply, I have these rationalist emails sorted into their own folder, and my gmail is cluttered (no excuse), but this is a high priority for me now, I will stay on top of it. Let me know what I can do to help make this event happen. There is a lot of angles in The Abs•Tract, but it has an overarching rationalist message. It's certainly general and abstract enough as well that it is wholly aligned with Lifespan's mission, albeit slightly biased towards quality over quantity of life.
Also, you all may find interesting, I'm in the process of creating The Abs•Tract Organization as a real non-profit think tank dedicated to promoting common sense through critical thinking, performing the needed service of Public Sociology with both research papers and film content. I have a lot of research from the last few years and some volunteers already, but its still slow-going until a basic threshold of support is met.
The official website gives some idea, but is mostly just to promote the film for now.
Also, the project is up on the UBC alumni site for development support:
Looking forward to your reply,
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