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Several hours ago (what day is it?), a couple of Dallas Observer staffers were wearing meat helmets. With real salted, cured meats.
The reason was very, very simple: the 24 Hour Video Race happened. Which, naturally, means gorilla suits, massive foil balls and a helmet made of roast beef and Virginia ham.
If you’re unfamiliar with what the hell we’re talking about, the race to make a movie in 24 hours has a few caveats: a certain theme, prop, location and line of dialogue must be included . In this year’s case, the prompts were “A Day to Remember,” a ball, a garden and “We can do that tomorrow” — respectively. In 24 hours, filmmakers must then write, direct, edit, not die, and turn in a completed video that’s under five minutes.
So, we, as the Mixmaster, entered Jacob’s Ladder made ourselves a little film for the race. You can see after the jump — it’s called “We Forgot The Dry Cleaning” (we’ll let the weirdness speak for itself).
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If you’re itching to see the movie on the big Tinseltown screen, our film will run Wednesday, May 25 at 8:45 p.m. at the Angelika Film Centre on Mockingbird, along with other contenders in our category (screening of all completed videos begins at 6 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday). We’re pretty excited. Make the jump to see the completed film, and if you’re feeling saucy — join us at the screening. Also, we totally encourage other filmmakers to post links to your completed projects (we threw ours on YouTube) in the comments below — we could post yours on the Mixmaster in the next few days!
