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18. GAY = SIN
7 months ago
Video by Matthew Brown
Music by Sigur Ros
I'm currently trying to find funding for a new project about seeing the world through the eyes of an autistic 9-year-old girl as she watches her family rip apart because of her disability. It's a very hard-hitting topic for me and a lot of other people, and I hope to present it with a decent budget. We are planning to shoot this Thanksgiving season, and anything would help! My paypal account is writingmatthew@hotmail.com If you can loan equipment, locations, props, etc, that would be much appreciated, too! Thank you!
Music by Sigur Ros
I'm currently trying to find funding for a new project about seeing the world through the eyes of an autistic 9-year-old girl as she watches her family rip apart because of her disability. It's a very hard-hitting topic for me and a lot of other people, and I hope to present it with a decent budget. We are planning to shoot this Thanksgiving season, and anything would help! My paypal account is writingmatthew@hotmail.com If you can loan equipment, locations, props, etc, that would be much appreciated, too! Thank you!
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This was great - beautiful job. I think you're really starting to trade-mark that shot of the spinning camera angles ;)
I want to like this way more than just once!
:-)
This movie is great, I liked it...
Some where along the line God got hijacked by religion and religion got hijacked by biggots and lost all it's merit in this world. Though the good news is that we will defeat it.
Very profound piece Matthew....
Eloquently stated. It is such a heartbreaking thing that has happened.
Film festivals are wonderful - our second feature has played over 70 film festivals now - but don't discount Vimeo, and the web, as a venue for sharing films. This clip has over 47,000 views. It would have to play over 150 film festivals to have an audience that wide.
Beautiful job, Matthew.
BTW, this was brought to my attention by the Critics webisode with Steve Zacuto. Thanks to Steve and Philip Bloom for sharing it.
Shooting, tone and pace - sweet and strong but not in your face
The essence of all human difference issues is that stupid idea we have to understand it all, so in this case, if a person cant understand homosexuality, than it's bad ... when the truth is that everything is not ment to be understood by everyone... the thing is too just accept the fact, because either way the fact is what it is and that will never ever change.
"There are two infinite things: The universe and human stupidity. I'm not so sure of the first one" - Albert Einstein -
I am not religious myself, but I will say this... somewhere in history religion really seems to have diverted from the beautiful potential it had for positive change and reformation. Somewhere along the lines it turned from a mechanism that could have been used for enrichment, into a mechanism utilized to deliver hatred under the guise of faith.
At any rate, I sincerely hope that in the future we stop looking for divinity amongst the pages of outdated books and find the divinity that we are all capable of as human beings.
I sincerely hope that you are not the victim of such persecution, though I feel that even if not being persecuted directly, you feel the brunt of the bigotry that exists...
Excellent video Matthew!
Three words: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness. Why would we want to deprive anyone of any of these rights. The conversation should be over, unless those three words don't apply to EVERYONE in 2009. As far as I’m concerned, the constitution does not exclude gays; consequently, they should have the same right to marry as straight people do under liberty & pursuit of happiness. They shouldn’t have to be humiliated with us having to vote to give them rights that the constitution already guarantees them. Here’s the part that gets me, so many of the right feel that gay marriage will somehow hurt straight marriage. Straight marriage doesn’t have such a great record of success, they really should keep their mouth shut. I would think they would be a little embarrassed.
Well done Matthew, you've broached a subject that should really not be a subject but unfortunately is.
Mitchell,
Well put. Religion could be such a force for nice and good, but unfortunately I don’t see that. Even in its lightest forms it’s extremism to me, with their mission to be to convert me. It's a lot of: if you don't believe what I do, I will have to force my opinion on you, or they need to save people. Why can’t they just hand their shingle out there and if people show up fine, if not, leave the rest of us alone.
The real problem in all of this is tolerance, if we as a people can have tolerance toward something different, we wouldn’t have any problems both political and religious. And that’s a big IF?
well done sir.
the fact that it inspired many great comments alone shows it's worth.
I’m so glad to see you using your art to make a statement and take a stand. Just today I was telling some of my video students about the “essay” genre of documentary filmmaking, and I used your work as a prime example of it. I told them that this genre can be a very effective vehicle for making political and philosophical statements, both good and bad (as an example of the bad, I referred to Leni Riefenstahl’s work for the Nazis). So I was delighted to find a message from you today, watch this piece and read the wave of mostly positive comments you have gotten from viewers.
You are taking a genre of filmmaking that can be merely “warm and fuzzy” and giving it a real edge. Where many filmmakers with your talents would be using them to make car commercials, you are going out on a limb, baring your beliefs and your soul.
Thanks for having the courage and clarity to make this movie and share it with the world. I understand more and more why Kenney Smith admires you so much and says that Matthew Brown is “his own man” and “one of a kind.”
Have always had a hard time differentiating the light from the dark. But now that I see light outside, and hear dark in my mind, it's nice to know that I can't dissociat the light I saw in your work.
Prophetic muxh? Would like to think that there are those in our world open-minded enough to recognize that there is beauty in this world beyond what they are comfortable with.
Will pass to the next person I meet with an open mentality.
Just wish it wasn't such a trek to find one.
Much love.
Thank you for this video nevertheless.
And yes, your video is that powerful, also because of the speeches included.
"It's an ABOMINATION!!!" < Very dramatic. :)
i love
It confirms that I am NOT confused in any way about being gay. It just is and I am proud of it.
If you think that the fanatical and very powerful political homosexuality movement is all flowers and respectability then you are seriously illusioned. America is on the road to socialism and State indroctination. As is already happening in other countries further down that road than yours, wherever the State moves in on the lives of your young children, they will be targetted by political homosexuality. And when your five year old sons are being taught about the pleasures of homosexual sex in the classroom, political homosexuals will use the law to silence the dissent of rightly concerned parents.
Political homosexuality has nothing to do with liberty and classical liberal values. At all.
The individuals in your film are having fun. Good for them. That's how it should be. Loving friends enjoying life together.
"And when your five year old sons are being taught about the pleasures of homosexual sex in the classroom, political homosexuals will use the law to silence the dissent of rightly concerned parents."
I respect your views on gays, but this video is meant for people like you, so I hope it sticks with you.
I really think you should watch the video again so you can shake off your political spin on it. This video is about love and putting out the wildfire of discrimination.
By the way, no one is going to teach a five-year-old about the pleasures of gay sex. I don't know anyone who teaches a five-year-old the pleasures of ANY sex. You're blowing everything out of proportion. Sorry to say, but you are.
"I respect your views on gays..." You mean my views on political homosexuality. I have homosexual colleagues and friends. The political spin "I" put on it is pickled throughout the comments prior to my own. By "people like you" I assume you have a straw man ready made for me? Copyright of the academy or the media?
"By the way, no one is going to teach a five-year-old about the pleasures of gay sex." Might I point you towards some State-schools in the UK for a refutation of that line? Parents are set to be fined and children will be treated as truants if parents pull them out of, what amounts to, State-funded homosexual indoctrination classes. For prepubescent children. Hundreds of thousand of pounds were spent "researching" the recommendations for the policy.
Political homosexuals are also set to make it illegal (carrying a prison sentence) to link homosexuals to pedofilia. This bill passed through the Lords with a mere one hour of "scrutiny". There are many more instances of these kinds of things. As I said, some countries are further down the path that America is now on. You can see into the future if you look without prejudice and learn to accept some unsavoury "off-message" truths.
As always, a lovely video (see the last paragraph of my previous comment). Keep up the good work. Nice to cross swords with a gentleman.
Sory but as a product of the UK's education system, and a gay man I call bullshit on this one. Would like to see hard proof (not conjecture) because when I grew up there was not a smidgen of anything that reflected who I was in school.
And in the end, that's what it's about - not teaching anything, especially 5 year olds who don't really have an idea of sexuality yet anyway - but if once there had been something that reflected who I was I would not have spent most of my childhood feeling painfully alone.
That's the real danger...making kids feel like they're the only one, or freaks...look at the suicide stats, being gay like being straight cannot be taught; but those could be prevented.
(edit : your description in the group Vimians got me wrong too "Mother Nature would have to disagree...")
I was already writing a forum post about a discriminate video recently added.
That should give me a lesson.
Beautiful images, as well. Untitled 3 - Samskeyti is also a fantastic track (used it myself - vimeo.com/1417069 )
I hope you don't mind, but I posted the video in a myspace bulletin to share to other people.
And yeah, it's chris ;D