This post will be mostly relevant to people I grew up with.
Back home, at the youth movement, we used to have a yearly movie festival. Me being me, would pour disporportionate amounts of effort into it and make sure the end result is as good as can be given the budgetary and technical limitations at the time.
One of my most famous films was “Jurassic Beyajad”, a parody of Jurassic Park. I thought all copies (well, the only copy) had been destroyed during the infamous “accidentally taped a telenovela over it” by Aby M. Recently a copy resurfaced. It appears I made one for my aunt Jave and she had Ari M. (coincidentally, Ari’s brother) digitize it along other home movies. And the quality is pretty good!
It was shot on our Sony Video 8 Handycam and edited on the floor of the playroom at my parents where a lot of the taping coincidentally also happend. I would hook up several VCRs, cameras, TVs, stereos, Discmans; and edit by carefully pressing Record / Play simultaneously on several devices.
Computer graphics/animations were done on Macromind Director and recorded straight from the screen of a PowerBook at the lowest brightness setting in a dark room, since recording CRT monitors would flicker due to the mismatch in refresh rates. I don’t remember who owned the PowerBook but I certainly didn’t have one at the time.
Watching this brought back a lot of memories. I shot and edited the damn thing so I remember the specific words and intonations, bloopers, etc. Lots of inside jokes in there, and many didn’t age well. But that’s art.
Here it is, enjoy!
And now let’s see if we can find a copy of “Yom Haatzmaut”, in which I have an alien aircraft blow up the club.
