[Frameworks] Support my new Kickstarter project for my new great 16mm motion picture!

[Blanca García]

Excuse me for intercede, and no offense intended (I don't understand what's
this all about), but... Aren't those stills from *Quick Billy*? I can't
find any reference to it on de KS campaign, and I know "we all" know
Baillie's work but I think it's kind of rude...

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2016-10-21 11:51 GMT+02:00 Brecht Debackere <brecht at visualantics.net>:

> Dear Doug,
>
> I’m not sure that insults will move people to open their wallets. The
> amount of options for people to spend their ‘disposable income’ is huge and
> in your kickstarter you fail to give people any reason why they should
> spend it on you/your film.
> You blow your own horn, but you fail to substantiate the superlatives you
> use to describe yourself. Why was your previous film ‘great’? Are there any
> reviews? Was it shown in any festivals or other places? Did it win any
> awards? Can we see it somewhere and maybe judge for ourselves?
> Furthermore you fail to tell us anything about the film you want to make
> except for its title. The money you aks is apparently needed to financially
> support you and to allow you to buy equipement. You then go on to try to
> elicit sympathy and pity in an attempt to bring people to fork out the
> cash.
> Your Kickstarter campaign further fails to allow anyone to give you a
> small amount as you only give the option for 500$ and 1000$. If you’re
> begging for cash, which is what you’re doing, you’re not encouraging
> potential backers at all, but you have the audacity to claim that people
> are unsupportive/ not encouraging:* "Prove you're not a completely
> useless, unsupportive "non-community" of old cranks & send money to me for
> my next movie & to save my life!"*
>
> *"I'm always respectful & compliment everyone who doesn't know me*”
> vs.
> *"if they don't care about me or my motion pictures then fuck them.” /
>  "lame, unsupportive, non-nurturing excuse for a community” /  “Almost
> everyone is a whiney old loser or just non-communicative & non-responsive"*
>
>
> regards and fuck you too!
>
> Brecht
>
>
> On 16 Oct 2016, at 01:03, Doug Chaffin(Douglas Graves) <
> dgtolstoy at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> In the last 8 years I have been continually disappointed by almost
> everyone I've met in this lame, unsupportive, non-nurturing excuse for a
> community. Almost everyone is a whiney old loser or just non-communicative
> & non-responsive.
>
> No one is like Will Hindle, Stan Brakhage, Ed Emshwiller. or other great
> legends who were very generous & inspiring to other movie makers in this
> field. The people now have all been petty, rude, or just plain cold to me.
> I'm always respectful & compliment everyone who doesn't know me in my
> introductory letter or meeting. So there's no excuse for their awful
> attitude.
> And if they don't care about me or my motion pictures then fuck them.
>
> Again, support my project!
>
> Pure Cinema Celluloid
> <https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1969461508/pure-cinema-celluloid?ref=user_menu>
>
> Pure Cinema Celluloid
>
> <https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1969461508/pure-cinema-celluloid?ref=user_menu>
>
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