Turns out there’s a lot more work than I would have expected to produce a movie, even a very, very, very short one. I blame the Indie Movie Work Ethic. You’d think putting actual plots in their movies all the time would wear them out.
I’m talking of course about the 1-Second Film, a project begun seven years ago by Nirvan Mullick when he was a student at the California Institute of the Arts. (I know you know all about it because I told you last year.) Quick version: It's a non-profit, community-building, awareness-raising artistic collaboration between (so far) 8,100 people. Mullick and his peeps will create a one-second movie composed of images of 12 different paintings (two frames each) that were themselves painted in one very colorful day by students, faculty, and anyone else wandering past. It’s rumored that one hapless pizza-delivery guy was mistakenly painted over in #9 after he leaned against it to tie his shoes, but the eternal torment of his unfortunate soul has not been independently verified and anyway it really adds depth to the piece.