Festivids reveal!

[sophinisba]

Festivids vidder names have been revealed and I'm still so grateful to Dayln aka gigglemonster for making the fabulous Never Let Me Go vid Lifeforms.

I made Let Me Go (not the most fortuitous title, I know) for the 1981 BBC miniseries Brideshead Revisited. Like my recipient crowie, I loved this story before I knew what slash was, and it was good to go back and spend some time with it again. B suggested the lovely Kate Rusby song "No Names", and someday I'll make a vid where the picture actually looks nice.

Even though vidding is super hard I am glad I participated in festivids! The mods took good care of us and I had a lot of good companionship on Twitter and commenters were generous. I hope it'll work out for me to play again next year, and I hope I'll make another vid or two before then!

And hey, speaking of vidding, calls just went up at wiscon_vidparty both for new vids to premiere at the con and themed playlists of 3-6 vids. They need things by May but they'd like to have an idea soon of what/how much to expect. Hey, vids are great and so is feminism, and so is chaila and from everything I here so is WisCon, so this sounds like an awesome opportunity all around.

Comments

[chaila]

Thanks for the signal boosting! :D

[sophinisba]

I am excited about the workshop and the vid party itself! I wonder if I can make something.

[chaila]

Well if you're asking me, clearly I say YES. :D

[magnetic_pole]

I'm not much of a vidder, but I enjoyed Let Me Go. I also watched the miniseries before I had the vocabulary to describe the difference between the way I watched it and the way my parents did. (I was anxious the whole time--surely everyone saw this painful not-even-very-subtextual love story, too?--but they never said a word.) Thanks for the link! M.

[sophinisba]

Ha, thank you! I watched Brideshead Revisited with my mom, oh, maybe fifteen years ago, and she remembered having watched it many years before, when it first came out. We talked a bunch about how gay it was but she said the first time she'd watched it she'd had NO IDEA. The cultural context had just changed so much.