The Mind that Makes the Matter (2000)
Monday, March 20th, 2000
Open your mind and travel into the realm of subconscious filmmaking. Made during my Freshmen year at college while adapting to new surroundings. This is not a class assignment. I filmed it around school using any actors I could find. It’s a mess, but I enjoyed it’s loose experimental quality.
Here’s another film where you do a really good job of building suspense, especially in the beginning.. I’m guessing that you learned this from your love of Hitchcock and other horror greats. But especially Hitchcock as he is the master of suspense.
Seems the suspense point here is finding out what’s in Drake Tower. That is what I was interested in. Problem is that once this illumination is out of the bag then the suspense went away, which is why it is important to have multiple suspense points. Think of a show like LOST–there are a hundred suspense points floating around such that when one is resolved there are still several more to fall back on.
Anyway, fun for an early piece of work. Dashing stache there James.
The funniest scene in the movie has to be those two guys versus the possessed refrigerator. Now that’s how anyone would call it “f**king hilarious!”
Interesting movie. This calls for a remake.
lol Rob Zombie at 14:21
awesome movie! and you get to see james dressed up as a douchebag!
loved it!
The older alias, The Rolfe Guy, must be a school project or an idea that could’ve been used for a school project. Either way, if I’m wrong or not, this is pretty cool.
I love the guitar music by Phil Tobias in this film. It does a great job setting the atmosphere for some scenes. Awesome film!
The thought text was pretty funny man,
another classic.
I recognize the opening song! Time by Pink Floyd, good stuff man.
This vid is more abstract and gives the viewer a sense of their own mortality.