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Something like CINEATRIX goes HOLLYWOOD!

and it is great to know that we are working on something similar to the ideas of Michel Gondry:

Does this remind you of something? If you know CINEATRIX, you will know what I mean:

By Kirk Honeycutt (www.reuters.com):

PARK CITY, Utah (Hollywood Reporter) - After highly imaginative explorations of man’s natural instincts ("Human Nature") and the interplay of memory, dreams and personal relationships ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and "The Science of Sleep"), Michel Gondry has turned his playful gaze to film itself.

"Be Kind Rewind" wants to probe the interplay among films, their audience and the people who make them. It’s an exuberant, fanciful fable set amid the scruffy outskirts of American society, where people’s need for escapism coincides with their desire to participate in its creation.

Synopsis:

Jack Black and Mos Def star in Be Kind Rewind, a unique comedy from Academy Award-winning writer/director Michel Gondry (Dave Chappelle’s Block Party, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). Black stars as a loveable loser stuck in a life that’s too small for his big dreams. But when he unintentionally erases all the tapes in a video store where his best friend (Mos Def) works, he devises a plan to satisfy the store’s few loyal customers by re-creating and re-filming every movie they decide to rent. Be Kind Rewind features a cast that also includes Danny Glover, Melonie Diaz and Mia Farrow. It is scheduled for a February 22, 2008 release.

links:

http://www.redwired.org/CINEATRIX
http://www.bekindmovie.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Kind_Rewind
http://www.bekindrewindthemovie.co.uk/
http://www.youtube.com/bekindrewind

Sweding:

Sweding is re-making something from scratch using whatever you can get your hands on:

I am planning to write a book about the stories of CINEATRIX (more infos at www.redwired.org/CINEATRIX)

The book will hold 13 short stories

Der Liebestrank (german, The Love Potion)
Die Mondparty (german, The Party on the Moon)
Der Auftrag aus Mexico (german, The Job from Mexico)
Der Zauberwald (german, The Magic Forest)
Die Drei Superhelden (german, The Three Superheros)
Halloween (german)
Voldemort (german)

House Haunters (english, Die Haus Jaeger)
Invaision on Gamma 9 (english, Invasion auf Gamma 9)
James Bond - Showdown (english, James Bond - Das Endspiel)
The Vampire’s Revenge (english, Die Rache des Vampir’s)
Transformers (english)
Pokemon at MIT (english, Pokemon am MIT)

as well as illustrations and 2 dvds including the movies (English and German, produced in America and Austria) accompanying the stories. The movies can already be found on this blog on the left side of the page, as well as on youtube through the tag CINEATRIX. I am planning to write the book over the summer 2008.

Things to come! were decided at todays meeting with Erich Kucher, current Vorstand of KIMEKI, in Klagenfurt. Many new ideas were discussed, such as future steps for our project CINEATRIX. A brandnew idea might be the incorporation of MIT’s $100 Laptop into future projects and programs of our collaboration.

Klagenfurt, Austria, Fall 2007

iPressl.com
Kimeki.info

Cineatrix is a Kimeki, iPressl and MIT collaboration.

In collaboration with the MIT Edgerton Outreach program and iPressl in Austria in Europe, KIMEKI is working on a new project, Cineatrix.

The original idea stemmed from the knowledge that there is a new generation of children who are digital natives, kids who haven’t known a world without iPods and digital cameras, let alone a comfort level with computers.

An MIT student from Austria, Dipl. Ing. Daniel Pressl, is now working on a new idea for the project, Cineatrix. This will combine film, theatre and comics. There are two main thoughts to this program.

CINEATRIX: First and foremost, as a means of story-telling, children will be able to take movies, add special effects to the movies and be able to tell their stories in never imagined ways. The goal for the end of the course is every child will be able to bring a DVD home, to which they have contributed through filming, editing or storytelling.

KIMEKI: The second aim is that children, between 10 and 15 years old, get to teach their technological know-how in media and videography to children between 5 and 10. This extraordinary, media-pedagogical concept has proven to show great possibilities and a new way of learning for children and has been running for the past 4 years, in Austria.

We run parallel sessions in which the older children are trained on our particular hardware/software to do the filming, editing and other finishing stages, and have the older children then turn around and teach these same skills to the Storytellers, the younger children.
Foto Compilation of Cineatrix in Austria, Fall 2007: