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Some Analog Lines is essayistic short film that serves as both an autobiographical account of a director's development as a filmmaker and an examination of the dichotomy between digital technology and the artistic process, and how the former can facilitate the latter.

The film is an articulated response to reactionary critics who claim that computers are ruining cinema; so too is it a deeply personal exploration of how artists invest themselves in their work, how that investment affects their audiences, and how creativity and passion cannot be mediated by technology.
davidpatricklowery

34 responses // Some Analog Lines

  • your story is beautiful and slightly haunting. every shot is perfect. you've got style.

    -jonathan
    vigliotti
  • Wow. Really haunting personal piece exposing digital mediums. This was very fantastically done. People seem to forget that working in digital can be just as exhausting as anything else and while computers aid the process, there isn't a piece of software that just makes you what you are. Excellent presentation and editing. Definitely ready for television. Great, fantastic work! Keep it coming.
    keithpops
  • That was absolutely spectacular. GL. How long have you been making films? I would love to hear your review on what I've put together. <a href=" http://www.current.tv/watch/27705076?list=newVidsByProd...

    What would it take to get a copy of this?
    weskandel
  • GL! good job!
    sfilm
  • Amazing. It makes me want to go shoot something now. Right now.
    casadetonic
  • haffe love it my bru, fully reprazenting for the indi skills! We can share and learn from eachothers indipendance, we are depentant on independance like yours so to speak. Please coninue to inspire,, got to learn to play with maya a bit, or maybe i should just leave it to my neighbours who are pros. Did you use Buju for the bit at the end?

    I know it dont matter much but, I think the layering of your voice at the beggining is less effective than just a plain voice,, yours is very kind.
    Otherwise I loved it all, will show it to my Music Journalism tutor, he's all for conventional systems of production: ie, not so indy, more industrial.

    Blessed the garden...
    humanproductions
  • haffe love it my bru, fully reprazenting for the indi skills! We can share and learn from eachothers indipendance, we are depentant on independance like yours so to speak. Please coninue to inspire,, got to learn to play with maya a bit, or maybe i should just leave it to my neighbours who are pros. Did you use Buju for the bit at the end?

    I know it dont matter much but, I think the layering of your voice at the beggining is less effective than just a plain voice,, yours is very kind.
    Otherwise I loved it all, will show it to my Music Journalism tutor, he's all for conventional systems of production: ie, not so indy, more industrial.

    Blessed the garden...
    humanproductions
  • Your film is simply wonderful. The images+writing+sounddesign+editing (+stop motion+cgi, of course) make this one of the finest productions I have seen on current. (...seen period.) This is worthy of broadcast today. I'm curious to see what else you've produced, and what else you decide to submit to this channel. Supreme.
    ~ zelig, <a href=" http://www.current.tv/community/people/zelig">l... (not exactly stop-motion, but some inanimate objects nonetheless. - if you have a moment...)
    zelig
  • Beautiful script, film, and message.
    I respectfully disagree with humanproductions comment regarding the layering of the voice. I found the layering to be effective and poetic.
    magerer
  • Thanks, everyone! What a great welcome to this site. I've just joined up here and hope to explore it more in the very near future (before now, I only knew about the TV channel), and watch everyone else's work. This particular film has been on the festival circuit (in a relatively minor way) for the past year or so, and I wanted to make it avaible online - and this seemed like a much better option than, say, YouTube. I'm actually at a festival with it right now, but when I get back I'll get back to everyone who's asked about it.
    davidpatricklowery
  • Beautiful piece and provocative! GL

    You can make a bad analog film and it would be bad. You could make a great diigital film and it would be great. Isn't it all about the content in the end?

    The new technology makes filmmaking more democratic. Can't blame the same technology for poor ideas.

    Please check out Sister Beatrice Explores when you get a chance. She thought about getting a computer once.
    DavidGeorge
  • shot, edited, and written exceptionally well. Very unique... you've created such a great personality in this piece.
    JadedMultimedia
  • Dear David,

    Brilliant, excellent work. I organize a film festival at UCLA, the Critical Media Film Festival, and we are screening this years work next Thursday. If you can get a copy on DVD to me I will include it in the film festival. It is the perfect mix of theory and practice we are looking for.

    Adam Fish
    atomvajra@gmail.com
    rawbird
  • So incredible. Very cool and very well done! Good story telling, editing and image use.

    GL from TJ Walkup
    gargoylex
  • I appreciate your beautiful piece, the idea, the narrative, the work. The Art. Thank you.
    Mister_New_York
  • beautifully shot, and said. Nice work. GL!
    MovingBoxStudios
  • Beautiful piece! GL...

    Check out the "idiots" in DC when you can...
    jensenjw
  • NICE JOB!!!! THIS IS GREAT!
    Crank_Design
  • There is something bizzare here which is so akin to the creative process, that as a filmaker, put under a microscope, it cannot be ignored. This elicits the GL, for the giving voice to the parts of the process that never had a voice before. Thanks-Interesting.
    -canofmeatfilm
    canofmeatfilm
  • Incredible. You have a gift, talent, and voice for creative process. Well done. GL.
    Danielmklopp~
    Danielmklopp
  • interesting, although a little mundane...slow...
    xtra_ordinary
  • this short is awesome i wish this could be a series of sorts like science channels "how it's made" but with art. the difference and qualities of anolog versus digital pieces... this would be a wonderful piece for debate.
    happyguy
  • freakin fabulous...so very well done from many angles. terrif~GL.
    kendallfresh
  • David:

    your work is Awesome (Def: "any thing leaving a person in awe and wonder")

    the debate of Film/Digital both have a downside, and a upside...with Film you get the grain that just makes a piece, but with digital you can make quick cuts...and cant you add the grain?...of course you can....but will it look as well?...probably not.

    you will go far.

    Zan
    ZanvanCole
  • Good cut, good art... A nice in-depth journey into "our world"...
    daflew
  • Not functional for a non-artist. RL
    RapidNinja
  • points well taken...excellent work.
    lathe
  • This footage and editing is amazingly entertaining and very cool. A definite GL.
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    chrispmonkey
  • This was really great. I am inspired by how well your form and content work together. This is an artistic movie about the artistic process. It works a whole lot better then someone in front of a camera telling you something. Visceral.

    Great job.
    reverenddusatko
  • I already GL'd this a while back.

    Please check out my new pod Andre's Custom Shoes. Old fashioned shoemaking the way the elves used to do it.
    DavidGeorge
  • nice editing!
    check my videos, tell me what you think....
    cristobalcohen
  • I just rediscovered your pod after several months. This is my favorite piece of storytelling this year... and I'm not talking only Current.
    vigliotti
  • Its amazing. its profound.
    parisinla
  • Great short... I hope you entered that in some fests....
    sircamels

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