I’ve been making a movie for the last 8 months.
It’s called Childish Things and here’s the trailer: https://youtu.be/qICTLUBjAmo
I’ll let you know where it’s playing in festivals over the next few months.
The movie will be public this fall.
Stream the full movie at https://watch.cassidy.pictures
As you may know, I’ve been working on a movie called Childish Things since May of last year.
tldr: My movie Childish Things is now streaming at https://watch.cassidy.pictures
Childish Things has been independent from the start. My brother and I made it with our friends and whatever resources we had on hand, and when the time came to share the movie on the big screen, we worked with indie theaters to host community events and spread the word through local news and word of mouth.
We’ve been mulling over how to put Childish Things online. After going the typical route of signing with a distributor for our last film, Fallen Drive, we never saw a dime. We could’ve offered streaming through a platform like Filmhub or Amazon, but then some middleman would be taking a fat cut. It seemed like there was no favorable way for indie filmmakers to offer streaming to their audiences.
Then I asked for help here on wasteof. @radi8 (legend) reached out, and over the past couple weeks, he’s helped us develop our own streaming platform: watch.cassidy.pictures (rebrand TBD).
By continuing to be independent of big companies, we can retain the rights and control of Childish Things and (in theory) see some return on the blood, sweat, and mileage we’ve poured into this project. When you rent or buy Childish Things at watch.cassidy.pictures, you’re directly supporting the people who made it.
Thank you if you read all of that, and I hope you enjoy the movie!
Fairhazel, who did the soundtrack for Childish Things, dropped a new album today!
Check it out on Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/album/4A9rJakDG0SYfIq9fuwli1
Or search for “Brief Encounters” wherever you get your music!
Team,
I’m finding our TVOD solution for Childish Things. After shopping around, nothing stands out to me as a great choice.
Before I settle for one of these existing platforms, let me ask you computer people out there: how hard would it be to host the movie on my own website and gate it behind a paywall with both purchase and rental options?
Your expertise is appreciated.
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guys I got served a cease and desist at the last Childish Things screening
the process server watched the whole movie and said he really liked it!
Guys
Any y’all in New York (or know someone)?
If so, peep https://cassidy.pictures/childish-things/nyc
the latest on Childish Things
https://cassidy.pictures/news/maine-filmmakers-return-home.html
I just called my US representative
Hopefully others are doing the same in my district and everywhere so that they can have the courage to be reasonable
Phone calls still make me kinda anxious for some reason so it was tougher than writing a letter (and I’m just now realizing I forgot to say something) but I love my country and want to feel like I’m doing something
a friend sent me this tweet, and it just shows how tech bros don’t understand art, and more specifically, black mirror.
the “white mirror” already exists, that’s tech companies, they make adverts about how wonderful their new technology is, why you must use it, etc. look at how ads for ai a lot of time try and make it seem like ai can make something “perfect” - like that gemini ad about a little girl writing a fan letter to the olympian they admire - google says "hey, you’re gonna fuck this letter up, let ai fix it”, it creates this sense of inadequacy if you don’t allow ai to rewrite your own words.
my point is that the tech industry is the white mirror, they make us think that they will create a utopia for us if we just let them do what they want. but in reality many of us know that is coming with immense tradeoffs, their idea of utopia doesn’t seem to align with ours more and more.
black mirror is in a lot of ways the antithesis of this “white mirror” - it tries to imagine and explore what our future could be. it’s the person at the asbestos factory wondering why everyone is getting cancer while everyone else is praising how good of a building material it is.
not every black mirror episode is about tech, but most of them are some kind of satire that push things happening in the real world to their logical extreme, especially technological advancements. not every episode works, but when they do, they hit hard. the national anthem haunts me to this day
