Marta Tura fooled me.
Updated this to reflect upon the fact that the entire video appears to be a hoax; mostly shot in Spain and the girl is an actress. Or actually, we don't know ultimately. I have to retract what I said about the video's quality given that it turns out to be artifice disguised as reality beyond the confines of the piece. That's cynical and heartbreaking.
I'm just starting to wonder if in this viral marketing age how many more questions of authenticity will be raised now that we have sufficient technology to fake the sensation of amateur filmmaking.
The bright spot: often times you see a video with a similar idea and you get crushed and realize you have to lose your imaginary child. Someday I hope to get to make my version, but I'll put money on no one ever allowing that.
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When I was sixteen (probably after watching Wim Wenders' Until the End of the World) I scrawled in a notebook "make a movie around the world for real". I think we're getting to a point where the technology - actually presaged in the film as it contains some of the first hidef imagery ever put on film - can actually make that happen.
The story goes that this fan of a Dutch band in a really small town in Argentina who works in a shoe factory had been sending fan mail to this band for ages, and in an experiment they paid for her travel to watch them play a show in Holland while she filmed her trip. They chose her as she was the fan from furthest away. She'd never left her country before.
I don't really care for the song, but the first time I saw this clip (at 5am after an emotionally brutal week and one in which I've been reminded that I don't travel the way I used to) I was blown away. I love how you can see the girl fall in love with filmmaking.
I've had a similar treatment in my bag of ideas for years now, and I have to say it'd be hard to top this. There's a discussion going on at antville over whether or not this story holds up and is true. I agree that there's something we're not being told, but I do believe this woman's enthusiasm and excitement over travel is real, and if it really is that pure of a story, this is a great video.
Watch it here.
Watch interview with Marta here.
I'm just starting to wonder if in this viral marketing age how many more questions of authenticity will be raised now that we have sufficient technology to fake the sensation of amateur filmmaking.
The bright spot: often times you see a video with a similar idea and you get crushed and realize you have to lose your imaginary child. Someday I hope to get to make my version, but I'll put money on no one ever allowing that.
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When I was sixteen (probably after watching Wim Wenders' Until the End of the World) I scrawled in a notebook "make a movie around the world for real". I think we're getting to a point where the technology - actually presaged in the film as it contains some of the first hidef imagery ever put on film - can actually make that happen.
The story goes that this fan of a Dutch band in a really small town in Argentina who works in a shoe factory had been sending fan mail to this band for ages, and in an experiment they paid for her travel to watch them play a show in Holland while she filmed her trip. They chose her as she was the fan from furthest away. She'd never left her country before.
I don't really care for the song, but the first time I saw this clip (at 5am after an emotionally brutal week and one in which I've been reminded that I don't travel the way I used to) I was blown away. I love how you can see the girl fall in love with filmmaking.
I've had a similar treatment in my bag of ideas for years now, and I have to say it'd be hard to top this. There's a discussion going on at antville over whether or not this story holds up and is true. I agree that there's something we're not being told, but I do believe this woman's enthusiasm and excitement over travel is real, and if it really is that pure of a story, this is a great video.
Watch it here.
Watch interview with Marta here.
posted by Aaron Stewart Ahn at 2:01 PM
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The world is out there to fool everybody, there have been hoaxes and pranks played through all media.
Loch Ness Monster? Sasquatch? Yeti? Sphaghetti growing trees? Special Effects as an industry? UFO's? Extraterrestials? David Blaine?
I guess we do live in a cynical world and yet still hope for a moment of magic from somewhere.
Ola, Marta Tura! Yo soy brasileiro e yo estava de vacaciones na Holanda (Amsterdã) e um amigo me mostrou el video e musica de Johan (Oceans)! Yo quedei mucho emocionado! Yo quiero mucho entrar em contato com tu! Mío e-mail é: caju1971@yahoo.com.br! Yo quedei mucho admirado com su coraje!
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