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Scene of the Crime - The Dryden Theatre, next to the George Eastman Museum, or "GEM," which is how my name is pronounced in West Virginia. |
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Palpable expectations - will anyone show? Will the film run? Did I spell the movie title right? |
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The Original Kodak building, moved to the location, an extra story built, Eastman's office on the top floor. |
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Filmmakers, documentarians, the scent of a pot growing facility on the 4th floor, the location has it all. |
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George Eastman is buried here, and he's obviously not going anywhere, so the general consensus is that he's quite dead at this point. |
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RIFF President, Bill Abrams, of Kodak, with an expansive greeting |
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We were feted, we were treated, we were watered, we were given Ultramax film |
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The take-away - "You want the look of film? Shoot film!" In George Eastman's old office on the third floor, in comfy seats, getting the low-down on Kodak's history since 1888. |
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Lawyer-filmmaker-theatrical documentarian Kemp Brinson, checking out - carefully checking out - Kodak's latest niche market: a $5500 super 8mm camera |
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The Eastman House - dining room |
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The Eastman House - fireplace in the dining room, but central heating system control is on the wall, ca 1905 |
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A proper place setting for dinner, with a special plate for any bones that may emerge during the experience |
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The locked, secured china cabinet, with doors that merged with the panels |
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Guests arrived at the side door, the ladies could go upstairs to "freshen up" before being presented at "the grand staircase" |
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The garden room, site for Eastman's breakfasts |
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The game room included the latest in entertainment, again ca 1905 |
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...but by 1930, a radio was added... |
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Caught out of the corner of one's eye, this was a bit spooky |
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The main entertainment and meeting room, where a quartet grew into Rochester's orchestra |
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Look up into the floor of the attic |
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The gardens were still green |
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A reconstruction of the "lost elephant" in the room, complete with tusks. One of the originals fell out, showing that in Rochester, like Alabama, the Tuskaloosa. |
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The back-up player organ on the second floor |
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Laughter is both contagious and infectious. Caution at all times. |
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Walking along the side streets of Rochester, an impromptu resting location - near the Dorado on Park Avenue |
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The BnB at 7 Strathallan - complete with a 1am fire drill so you can meet your fellow boarders! |
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The Eastman House, on East Avenue, built when the area was all farmland (he kept the farm going) |
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The RIT chose the proper name for this location - "Media - Art - Games - Interaction - and Creativity" |
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Amanda Hughes, recent RIT graduate, gave the tour for our introduction to the 22nd century |
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Quadraphonic? Try Googlephonic |
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7000 square foot sound stage for whatever the mind can imagine |
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Ms. Hughes wearing her philosophy |
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A wall of sound - MAGIC |
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The main lobby - MAGIC |
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Video game streaming on Nintendo, created at MAGIC |
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Is MAGIC responsible for the name, "corn hole?" (hope not) |
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These plastic chairs, however, not Magic... |
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Instructor's office - tidy and restrained |
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... a bit less restrained ... |
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The CFO's office - extremely restrained |
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We were very well fed. Thali of India, in Rochester |
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- worth every moment - |
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The whole lot of us, keeping tabs on Mr. Eastman |
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Nadan Pines, filmmaker ("Father's Son") contemplates larger formats |
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Ryan Steven Green ("Ephemeral Art and the Death of the Phone Booth") meets with Nadan Pines at the airport - and discovers empty phone booths! |
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It wasn't just a hallucination, just hallucinatory! If you send your film to no other festival, certainly send it to RIFF. It was easily the best experience in a long, long time! |
1 comment:
Oh, Rochester . . . would you see if you can find my violin.
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