The Big House documentary
"The Big House" will be showing June 2 at 7pm at the State and June10 at 1pm in the Michigan Theatre Screening Room as part of the Cinetopia Film Festival. This has previously screened at the AA Film Festival, the Freep Film Festival and The Berlin Critics Week.
This is a film by visiting professor Kazahiro Soda and 16 other (U of M) cinematographers/editors let loose on two different Saturdays during the 2016 season. Their motto "film anything but the game" gives you 2 hours of everything happening at Michigan Stadium sans football.
Link to review with trailer
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/big-house-1085842
Cinetopiafestival.org for tickets.
I would love to see this, but am out West. What are the distribution plans if you know?
I'll be by myself this weekend thanks to my in-laws planning a trip that my wife and kids decided to go on, so I may catch the showing at the State if I am done with the long list which I am sure will be left on the counter when I come home on Friday afternoon.
The adding of the religious nut and the politics seems a bit much, but I will try to keep an open mind.
Hopefully not, but it does show you that you could film any event and make it look any way you want to by cherry-picking images.
Was the oppressed looking black dishwasher really washing trays during the Star Spangled Banner while the blissfully detached little college kids sang along, or were they just piecing together a storyline they wanted to tell all along?
Any large gathering of people is going to have enough "scenes" going on to create any narrative you want.
A Michigan football game could be portrayed as Woodstock . . . or a Nuremberg rally.
Your choice.