{"id":2110,"date":"2010-09-03T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=2110"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:55:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:55:53","slug":"iow-youtube-du-c-u-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=2110","title":{"rendered":"IOW: YouTube du C-U is here!"},"content":{"rendered":"

How better to illustrate our excitement in toying constructively with the YouTube <\/strong>juggernaut than by displaying not one, not two, not three, but four <\/em>\u201cFavorite\u201d cuts in this, our fourth go-round with Images of the Week<\/strong>! As we embrace the concept of a C-U Confidential<\/strong> channel that collects together the movies of Champaign, Urbana<\/strong>, and the cities beyond \u2013 what examples we can easily dig up, anyway \u2013 the phrase \u201coriginal content\u201d has certainly entered our minds. Have patience though, dear readers, for we must claw through several high priority C-U improvements (and you\u2019ll be happy that we did \u2018em) before we can fulfill such a time-consuming destiny. We all know that good things come to those who wait \u2026 and, wait \u2026 aaaaand<\/em>, wait \u2026 but we\u2019re getting ahead of ourselves a little bit.<\/p>\n

The videos below are available on our channel, C-U Confidential Revue<\/strong><\/a>, and consist of trailers we haven\u2019t posted before on C-U Blogfidential<\/strong>. First up is for PRELUDE<\/strong>, the Shatterglass Studios<\/strong> drama directed by Luke Boyce<\/strong> that we featured two years ago<\/a>. Although the entire half-hour production is available to watch here<\/a>, only the preview has gone legit on YouTube:<\/p>\n

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Next up is an atmospheric teaser for part 2 of SAMSARA <\/strong>which we talked about briefly here<\/a>. Directed by former University of Illinois<\/strong> undergrad Roshan Murthy<\/strong>, this contemporary play on Indian mythology and rebirth through a slightly sci-fi lens features possibly the moodiest student-in-the-campus-vicinity footage you will ever see:<\/p>\n

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And then we have a promo for the short subject MISTER UNDERSTANDING<\/strong>, which we discussed a while back<\/a> with director Joe Stoltz<\/strong> of Accident Films<\/strong>. This strange little story about the broken lives of a man maimed in a car accident and his angel\/devil girlfriend is unevenly realized if likeable; at least its makers had the cojones <\/em>to give the screen over to our man Nate Jones<\/strong>, seen at the 32-second mark:<\/p>\n

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Finally, this one is hardly worth discussing \u2026 until after <\/em>you\u2019ve watched it, that is:<\/p>\n

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One can start to address (if not understand) the madness by reading over JB<\/strong>\u2019s interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n

p.s.<\/em> Ah, yes, the geographical scorecard: PRELUDE <\/strong>and SAMSARA <\/strong>were shot entirely in Champaign-Urbana, MISTER UNDERSTANDING<\/strong> filming was split between Bloomington-Normal<\/strong> and Decatur<\/strong>, and a forest in the netherworld of literary consciousness (known to commoners as Meadowbrook Park<\/strong> in Urbana) provided the backdrop in WAITING FOR GODOT<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the \u201cImages of the Week\u201d Dept.: Whether you’re ready or not, we’re lining ’em up one by one on our brand-new YouTube channel, the C-U Confidential Revue! Peek here first for a few examples of indigenous streaming video that also appear on the channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18,20,441],"tags":[128,67,445,129,447,449,448,446,450,443],"class_list":["post-2110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-images-du-cu","category-student-film","category-videos-du-c-u","category-c-u-confidential-youtube","tag-accident-films","tag-brainsmart-productions","tag-c-u-confidential-revue","tag-mister-understanding","tag-prelude","tag-roshan-murthy","tag-samsara","tag-shatterglass-studios","tag-waiting-for-godot","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}