Every download helps pay for the next film

Raising money for my trippy, sexy (almost entirely forwards) ultra-violet, heat radiating, blood pumping film starring 3 multi ethnic girls attending a prestigous women’s college twenty minutes outside of Boston. Not wanting to give away too much... it's like no other coming of age sex comedy you’ve ever seen.

Every dollar helps get it made. Having you as my numerous patrons and potential audience is a real gift because it allows me creative freedom. I'm raising funds with no pre-packaged agenda attached save my own 'bizarre' one, apparently. By the way, if there really is someone out there reading or watching, I get down on my knees before you and kiss your feet or is that pandering!?

So download 11:11 so you can help me make a film that will reclaim the sexual revolution, reclaim the body from the distorting effects of religion and society and at the very least, you could have an original film watching experience and you can tell your friends you helped the new film happen when you are sitting in the theater a few years from now, watching sexy girls explode with sexual energy, but it's still a date movie.

Anyway, lots of sites have the movie from jaman.com to bside.com. Just do a search on Esther Peres and that should get you to links for the backwards movie, 11:11. Make sure you see it forwards too.

Onwards to the next film.

An inverted variation of the Dorothy Dandridge Story

11:11's plot is an inverted variation of the Dorothy Dandridge story but without quite as much melodrama.

Committing to writing and directing backwards is like tying your hands behind your back before you sit down to the task. But after it's over you get to write and shoot in a 'conventional' manner and that makes it so much easier for everyone. Convolutions of plot and dialog are suddenly much easier for your audience to follow and the obvious myriad production challenges go poof; but backwards has its own rewards so I went for it.

Cool imagery still compels, even as our screens grow smaller and smaller. As a film editor, I constantly run my footage (digital video once it's in the Avid) in many directions and speeds. The genesis of the idea emerged from a love of backwards imagery, silent movies, foreign film etc. As we say in the cutting room, K.I.S.S. - keep it simple stupid. (Good advice for a cutter but not for a politician informing international policy.)

It was gratifying watching 11:11 in a crowd. Hearing laughs in the right places and witnessing everyone snapping into backwards thinking was great. It screwed the next festival film screening though. That film was narratively challenging. It switched from past to present and from differing points of view and realities. I tend to prefer non-linear flourishes in my narratives. Good recent example - The Constant Gardner. But anyway, I heard people in the audience muttering. "I can't get this... I'm still thinking backwards from that last film."

Play it forwards

When you download 11:11, use the a/v controls in your player to toggle the film in reverse and see it forwards. That strange language turns into English. Soon the film will be available as a 38 minute loop but meanwhile this sort of works.

Art for art's sake

Please download this movie so that someday I can make another far out film.

I know, I know, in this day and age , as in every other, art should exist for some higher purpose; to overthrow corrupt governments. (Wouldn’t that be nice?) I mean art for art's sake, seriously. In these politically desperate times, art should be a transcendent experience, something that can extricate human beings far and wide from the primitive grip of the Amygdala (primal emotion) and the beguiling tricks of the mid-brain.

All I did was run (reel/real) film through a camera backwards. And the feature I’m working on is just going to be a crazy sex comedy. It’s not like I’m helping pull the world from the brink of disaster. Hillary Clinton thinks that's her job. Perhaps I should have sent all the money I raised to shoot 11:11 to The Smile Foundation. My executive producers would have been ticked but...

Here’s the link, because it’s a great cause.

http://www.thesmilefoundation.org/.)

Let me get back to the inane struggles of the filmmaker/artist – in case anyone gives a crap or can relate. In my teenage years, I wanted to make a film about Palestine and Israel. There have been wonderful movies made about the Israeli Palestinian conflict but I don’t think any of them have brought us any closer to a two state solution. The bible tells us that their tribal warfare started in the womb. That's a lot of really well trodden neural nets in the collective brains of Jews and Arabs to re-program.

So if you download this film, you’ll help realize my dream of making this crazy feature film, a movie that promises to eliminate the mystery behind female orgasm, that should get me some mileage. Seriously.

Oh, and as promised, lots of people just love Mataji in the film. So here is her myspace link. Enjoy the music.

Mataji Booker’s myspace profile…

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=42651284&MyToken=9c5eba4d-4f09-47d2-9252-5d8e8989abc2