Metro Pulse

As digital cameras and hard drives have gotten progressively cheaper, we’ve become a nation of videographers, not only documenting the daily magic of baby dribble, but also taking our own stabs at the auteur theory with short films, fan extensions of genre films, and full-on features. And Rootclip.com, created by a couple of guys here in Knoxville, takes that digital lifestyle trend to its next step: virtual collaboration on short films, conducted online. Full story »

Joss Whedon, the talented nerd/writer/TV producer who somehow infiltrated network TV with Buffy the Vampire Slayer a decade ago, has produced his own Web series, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, and it’s a humdinger. He’s managed to infuse just the right amount of production values into a humble, goofy project to create something that works best on the Internet. Full story »

It’s 7 p.m. at the Bijou Theatre when the doors are flung open by a brace of lissome volunteers, and the avalanche of filmmakers, film-lovers, and the merely film-curious that will form tonight’s audience tumbles into the lobby. Such hubbub is but a dying echo of the chaos that has, for most, been last Saturday’s leitmotif. Perhaps 30 percent of the torsos here are posing the faintly defensive question that serves as both slogan and premise for the Marble City Film Festival: “Could you make a 3-minute movie—in just 10 hours?” Full story »

Introduced by Sony in 1999, SACD was intended to replace old-fashioned audio CDs by offering superior sound quality. It didn’t last long. Full story »