Alex de Campi: We'll have a poodle, a Baby Grand, and roses every day

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29.4.08 For The Avoidance Of Doubt

Got a rather disturbing note from a fellow entrant in the Aniboom Radiohead contest the other day, basically saying "you look like a professional music video director, this contest is for amateurs, go away".

Um. Yes. Let me clarify a few things.

I have made a lot of music videos for friends' bands, because I believe it's better to keep working and learning, than to sit idle. The budgets of everything I have made so far have been between 0 and $5,000. Most closer to zero. I have never made a single cent off my music videos - or directing work in general. In most cases, quite the opposite - I have sunk hundreds, in some cases thousands, of my own money into those music videos to bring them up to a standard I could be proud of. I am neither represented by an agent nor associated with a production company. In fact, right now if I were on fire, I doubt I could even get a music video commissioner to piss on me.

There. Now you know.

In other news, I'm back in America trying to find time to start the edit for "I Loved London", in between helping my mother organise the memorial service for my father, doing a friend's showreel, and the painful but necessary electioneering for the Aniboom and Babelgum contests/festivals. Aniboom, we find out on Friday if we made the semifinals; Babelgum - which has extended its voting until 7 May - a few days after voting closes, I guess.

Speaking of this Friday, if you're in or near Marfa, Texas towards evening-time, Ryan & my short "Raindrops Keep Falling on the Dead" is being shown before Night of the Hunter on the big outdoor screen at the Marfa Film Festival.