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Yesterday we met with American film maker and actor Crispin Glover over lunch at a vegan restaurant Silvoplee. We ended up having a very interesting conversation about the future of collaborative film making, Internet distribution and of course Moon Nazis. The lunch was set to start at one, but after we passed the 45 minute mark and were still waiting in the restaurant, we started to get a bit worried. Was this going to be…

… The Invisible Crispin Glover Experience!

Well no. True that mr. Glover was a bit late (because his last interview ran longer than expected), but I was more than happy to wait and at two o’clock he arrived. To those of you who don’t know, Crispin Glover is “touring” with his one man show “The Crispin Glover Experience” and he will be performing tonight 7:00 pm at Maxim movie theatre in Helsinki. The show contains a screening of his film It Is Fine. Everything Is Fine!, a slide show, a Q & A session and a book signing.

You can read my full article about The Crispin Glover Experience here.

After a more or less formal start to our conversation, we begun talking about the future of collaborative film making and Internet distribution. Since Glover doesn’t sell his movies for commercial distribution, the only way to see his work is by attending his shows. Glover has some issues with the corporations in charge of distribution, and who can blame him. The moment you give your movie away to a traditional distributor, you are more or less bound to do as they say. You also loose all freedom of doing things your way and of course money-wise the distributor takes a big cut of the gross. Back in the day there were no other option to the traditional distribution model, but nowadays the Internet provides a market bigger that any other. Also when done right, it doesn’t cost a cent.

We told mr. Glover a little about ourselves and it seemed that after hearing the story of how Star Wreck was made by collaborating with the community and how it was distributed for free on the Internet, he became more open to the idea of Internet distribution. What we also discovered is that Glover has been looking for a new way of distributing his films, but felt strongly about still keeping the distribution to himself. He seemed very interested in all new possibilities of how to use the Internet and we were more than happy to give some advise.

After lunch I did some digging around in the net and found that Glover has been using the Internet quite well. He has his own website, but also a Facebook and Twitter account to promote his tour. This is more than I can say for most film makers. My only suggestion to mr. Glover would be to take it one step further. It would be great if there was also a tour blog and/or twitpics on Twitter. For example the director of Juno, Jason Reitman, (@JasonReitman) does this very well.

I’m going to see the show tonight and will be posting about it tomorrow. So stay tuned.

For more info visit Crispin Glover’s official site http://www.crispinglover.com

Tags: Crispin Glover, It Is Fine. Everything Is Fine!, Night Visions Maximum Halloween 3009, The Crispin Glover Experience

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