The Assembly - an Indyish Film and Music Relay

Relay: February 10-March 9, 2007
Screening: March 10, 2007. Friendship Cove
Montreal, QC.

Following on the success of Indyish's December's Holla-Days Party and Music Video Making with Pop Montreal, Indyish.com is producing a brand new film-and music-making event. This latest project, The Assembly, is a non-competitive, assembly-line style of collaborative art making. The Assembly will produce a series of 10 minute short films with original soundtracks as ideas are passed off relay-style from writers to directors to musicians throughout the month of February.

The Assembly kicks off on February 10th with a week for each step of its development. Writing teams will be given a common starting point, the original sheet music for a rock opera by a Canadian indie rock band. Their challenge is to write a 10 minute film script using at least five lyrical or thematic elements from the song. Each script will be passed into the hands of a team of filmmakers who will shoot and edit it.

The final lap is run by musicians, including Graham Van Pelt of Think About Life and Miracle Fortress; Tyler Rauman of Telefauna; and Conor Prendergast of Brave Radar, who will each take one of the films and create an original soundtrack.

As the project moves forward, passing from hand to hand, teams will make notes in a group script made public at the end of every day on Indyish.com, using the collaborative open source writing program Celtx. Celtx will allow participants to have a keen sense of the intentions of the artists whose work they are building upon. It maintains every version of the project, creating a unique document of creative transformation throughout the The Assembly.

The Assembly is an artistic relay race that brings unique talents and ideas into each stage of its development. Participants will be challenged to translate written music into words, words into images, and images into audio, while building an innovative indie, open source film event in the process.

The final films will be screened at Friendship Cove in Montreal, on March 10th with live soundtracks performed by the musicians involved.

The finished products of The Assembly will include a project 'zine and a DVD with the completed short films and live concert footage.

Participation in The Assembly is open to anyone with interest in the project. Scriptwriters, filmmakers, and musicians can sign up on Indyish.com until February 7th and the relay will begin February 10th.

Space is limited and will be determined by the number of applicants at each stage. Sign up must be completed by February 7th and teams will be announced at the start of the project on February 10th.

Timeline:
February 10-16: Scriptwriting
February 17-23: Filmmaking
February 24-March 2: Musicmaking
March 10: Screening at Friendship Cove

For more info: www.indyish.com/events

Indyish strongly believes in the ability of artistic challenges to bring about new freedom of creation. The Assembly is Indyish's latest take on the challenges of collaboration that bring artists together from different backgrounds and genres to create original, interesting work.

Indyish.com is an online indie boutique, a network of artists, and a tricked out group blog launched officially with a weekend of activities in August 2006. Indyish works for the independent artist, recognizing the strength in local community and real world collaboration. That’s why we throw events, why we’re obsessive about search engine optimization, and it’s why we’re Indy-ISH; growing in the space where personal creativity meets organized collectivity.

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Press contacts:
Tessa Smith (514) 933-5518
Risa Dickens: (514) 274-1650

Project Coordinators:

Tessa Smith, Assembly Manager
Tessa@ Indyish.com
Tessa is a student of Cultural Studies and Communication at McGill University with a strong focus in media and technology. She joined Indyish in July 2006 as an intern. In August she Assistant-Managed the launch weekend. In September 2006, she coordinated the Indyish team sent to cover the Pop Montreal Festival and Future of Music Summit Conference, as well as contributing reviews, photographs, and interviews. Tessa now works as an Event Manager for major Indyish events and works on Marketing. She writes regularly for the Indyish blog, runs Secret Commons gallery in Montreal which will showcase interactive public installations, and plays in several local bands.


Risa Dickens, Indyish Co-Founder
Risa@ Indyish.com
Risa is an author / artist / web publisher with a masters degree in Communications from Concordia University. Currently, she is writing on topics related to open source theory, concentrations of knowledge, and the power of networks. She has been an actor, playwright, director, event producer and teacher. Her writing has appeared in many places, including the Canadian Journal of Communication, and Worn Fashion Journal. Recently, Risa published: The Consistent Variable Project Workbook Version 1.0. She co-founded Indyish.com with her partner Elran Oded in December 2005 to showcase and support the indie art she and the people in her community were making.


Elran Oded, Indyish Co-Founder
Elran @Indyish.com
Elran Oded is a web developer, internet consultant, and serial entrepreneur. His professional interests include: linux, security, networks, open source softwares, and web standards. He is the founder of TouchBasic Networks, president of PC Cruiser Ent. Inc. and website administrator for sites including: Wornjournal.com, Actaeonphoto.com, openjournalmontreal.com, and Indyish.com; Elran helped co-found Indyish.com because he believes that “code is art” and couldn’t resist an opportunity to demonstrate this point and in the process, help merge two seemingly different worlds. Elran is a man who wears many hats (but these days he mostly wears the blue one).

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