Reply to Scott Cole Sunday, June 23, 2002 12:27 PM

Hello Scott,
you wrote,
I think that the only solution is
to create enough critical mass (independent network) so that larger
companies can't squeeze you out.

DS:  I agree with this point strongly.  I see a need to post (as you did!)
here for awarenesses to develop of what the technology is capable.  We must
gather from many different arenas those influences; the businesses currents,
the policy from Governments, to support our philosophizing here on what this
list  wants to accomplish.  We want to build a serious ediface we can use to
make movies that go beyond the traditional structures.

What really makes a difference is as you say a critical mass of what we
represent here spreading outward to many places at once.  Enough
contributions from all sides and something will emerge.  The clear picture
in the global press is that we (both this list and assorted other similar
currents) represent something that frightens and threatens the current movie
industry.   What we want to do in response is to 'filmosophize' how to
unleash the deepest efforts of the global culture without mindlessly
supporting things as they are.

I have been watching some of the clashes between the European Union and the
U.S. over Intellectual Property.  Those differences between Europe and the
U.S. (and other regions as well!) which we can articulate here (and
elsewhere) can become a rallying point around what filmosophy can develop in
the sense of constructing a new world view.

The Tech Wreck will significantly structure how movies will be done in the
U.S. and Europe for quite awhile, but Asia is a different matter.   There is
every evidence in South Korea, Japan, China, as well as to a lesser extent
elsewhere in Asia they are moving forward with broad band culture much
quicker than the U.S. and Europe.  They have not been affected by the tech
wreck in the same way as in particular the U.S. has.   That Japan is
preparing the basic tools of the new movie culture, and those will be
available globally soon enough.  We can use that rising Asian experience to
help us conceptualize what we want to see in our regions.  We have a
somewhat different goal from Asian broad band culture at least here on this
list which is to go beyond the commercial industry and realize the deeper
filmosophical implications of movies.

We must begin to see the potential and make demands for what in a
filmosphical sense can be done.  I am very confident that over the next
short period of time we can elucidate the groundwork for movies that are
commiserate with a truly philosophical perspective.
thanks,
Doyle Saylor