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Putting real life into film, podcasting to extend the narrative, captivating social network audiences, Google mapping the audience demand for a theatrical release and digitally distributing to millions of internet viewers around the world. The pioneering efforts of Arin Crumley haven’t gone un-noticed as Indiewire, MovieMaker, The Wall Street Journal, The Spirit Awards, The Sundance Channel, IFC TV, & many others have jumped into the echo chamber further demonstrating all that new media has to offer.
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Today The Wall Street Journal lists Arin among the top 20 new media moguls, and applauds the co-creation of the popular independent film and online video series, Four Eyed Monsters. The film won the Sundance Channel Audience Award and was nominated for two spirit awards. Millions of viewers have engaged across multiple mediums with the project from podcasting, to MySpace to YouTube, facebook & twitter. The community around the film has participated in DIY theatrical screenings around the world and the audience has created material that has been put back into the project. The phenomena of Four Eyed Monsters has also attracted deals to air the film on IFC TV and the Super Channel as well as other foreign distribution interest.
Continuing his exploration into new media Arin also co-founder a research and development project called From Here to Awesome which has been uniting filmmakers to create the future models of collaboration, funding, production and distribution. All of this has lead to the development of many future films and interactive experiences to come. Keep track of all Arin’s projects and ideas on his blog at arincrumley.com
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Q&A:
1. What excites you about the future?
I’d like to have a list of all the films I’ve ever had the notion of wanting to see stored in my pocket at all times and to be able to program an alert that I want to go off when I’m walking past an underground movie theater that will be showing one of those films in 20 minutes. I also want to see myself and others shooting video on topics we are passionate about and then digital connections sending material straight from the camera to online environments where people can immediately start commenting on various aspects of the footage and integrating the material into films edited by hundreds of online collaborators.
2. What’s something you wish you would have known before you found out the hard way?
Thought shall not make thy movie with thine credit card.
3. What’s on your playlist, reading list, or in your movie queue?
I loved David Lynch’s Book Catching The Big Fish and am often listening to my Radio Head, Beck and anything else more obscure I can find, especially when I know the musician or they find me online and say it’s alright to use their music in films. My movie queue is so back logged that I can’t even begin to go into it, although I can say that I’ve been carrying The Cell around in my bag for the past 2 weeks excited by the notion I’ll soon have time to watch it.
4. What’s a site you couldn’t live without?
I’d have a tough time without gmail and facebook since they are the main ways I stay in touch with everyone. I love the feature of being able to send a text message from my Gmail to other peoples phones and a number of the other Lab functions I’ve switched on to experiment with. I also am just super pumped about twitter. The idea of a micro-blog is great. It’s showing us that it’s the little things that sometimes count the most. It also makes me feel that from my cell phone I can keep tabs on letting people know what I’m up to. On twitter I feel like I’m really a part of something while at the same time nothing is expected of me because if I don’t post anything, I know that everyone else has it all covered.
5. What are you currently working on?
I’ve started a new company called The CoCreate Inc which is handling the continued self distribution of Four Eyed Monsters and using the relationships being formed with iTunes, Netflix, DogWoof, and other marketing and distribution services to provide a pipeline in which future projects will be able to be pumped into. I’m also developing several media experiences that will unfold in the coming months. I’m being lead to all of my upcoming projects by the various interests I have including Filmmaking, Burning Man, Video Journalism, Cooking, Music, Collaboration, Modern Romance, and Consciousness.
LINKS:
BLOG: http://arincrumley.com
MICRO-BLOG: http://twitter.com/arincrumley
FRIENDS & PICS: http://facebook.com/arincrumley
FILM: http://foureyedmonsters.com
NEW PROJECT: http://asthedustsettles.com
RECENT PRESS:
Movie Maker Magazine’s Cover Story (July 2009)
Filmmaker Magazine’s Comparison between Steven Soderberg’s & Arin Crumley’s use of the Red Camera (Nov 2008)
nice. fresh update.
After watching all of the video podcasts, and seeing the stress between you and susan, i am wondering if you two are still in a relationship or if you guys went your seperate ways and remained partners for the F.E.O. project.
Also, when is episode 8 coming! I have been waiting like a year!!
Great bio. Keep up the good work!!!
I just finished watching all of your podcasts and I desperately want to see the film “Four Eyed Monsters”. There’s just two things: first, the film is a couple of years old and I’ll probably never get to see it in a theatre; and second, I live in Canada, so it is unlikely that I’ll be able to find/purchase a copy of it anyway. And that makes me sad.
But all of that is somewhat of a moot point, I think, because I almost don’t want to see the film for fear it will wreck what I’ve seen and enjoyed and learned and identified with in the podcasts. My ex-wife left me a number of years ago, and all the pain that came along because of that still lingers inside me, rising up from time-to-time. Not sure why, because when she left, I finally realised for myself after a time that she wasn’t the best person for me to live with for the rest of my life, despite the children. Or maybe BECAUSE of the children, because what would they learn if their parents continued in a love-less marriage for their sake? Anyway, your podcasts reminded me of all that – in a cathartic way.
What I like about the podcasts is how I identified the different stages of the demise of the relationship in my own life. As much as I wanted to cling to my ex-wife, the reality was I had to let her go and in the process I had to let me go. I had to let her become her own person so I could become mine. Sounds like some F[_]<ked-up shit, but once I did that I was a lot happier man – or content or free – and I saw that freedom most especially in the last episode. Although you were saying the relationship with Susan was over, and that you were fine with it, there was still the love there and you’d reconciled it within yourselves. Similar for me, but the love wasn’t for my ex-wife, it was now for me. I could love me in a way I’d not be able to for such a long time and it felt good.
On the one hand, I don’t want to see your movie because I don’t want to see the beginning of the relationship with Susan because I’ve seen the end of it; but on the other hand, after reading everything I have about the movie, I want to see how you came together and became a couple because it sounds so much like the start of the relationship I have with my current wife. She is everything I’d hoped for in a woman, and I did all kinds of artsy things to catch her eye, to woo her (ya, I used the word ‘woo’, gives you an idea of how much older I am than you), and it worked. It damned-well worked and we’re together and in love and still falling in love these five years now.
And that’s why I want to see “Four Eyed Monsters”.
In closing, I think it is so cool and awesome that you did everything on a Mac. I recently converted, and although I’m not using my iBook (on which I’m typing this now) nor my iMac to the extent you’ve demonstrated in the episodes, I think it’s great what these machines can do. So much ‘cleaner’ than a Windows machine.
Thank you, Arin. Thank you for sharing a part of your life (and Susan’s too) with me, with all of us. Thank you for reading/listening to this. I’m just wondering how many of these you read or have you read? How deep? How personal? How intimate? And yet, you were deep and personal and intimate with all of us, so why shouldn’t we reciprocate? Why shouldn’t we share with you a bit of what you shared with us? It seems only fair. It seems like the thing to do. It seems only human.
Hi Arin!
Just wanted to say thanks for your appearance tonight at the Director’s CU. You and Alex were so fascinating. And it was so inspiring to see another young filmmaker doing their thing and being really driven and creative about how to get it out there. I just bought the DVD, so I’m excited to see “Four Eyed Monsters” in all its glory.
Best of luck!
Alison