I’m excited (thrilled, delirious, pick your own adjective) to announce that on October 1st, 2023, my exclusive SpaceBrains3D process will reach a new milestone with its first public, theatrical exhibition.
The Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival has selected Hist-o-Rama 3D!: It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time to close out this year’s presentations. Given PUFF’s reputation for bringing to Philly audiences the best of the odd, the unusual, and the exciting, it’s a special honor to have my film join the program.
In Hist-o-Rama 3D!: It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time, attendees will don their special, TrioScopics 3D glasses to be treated to a dazzling anthology of flat-out insane industrial and “educational” shorts, all given a new dimension through the exclusive SpaceBrains3D process. The selection includes films made famous by Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Paul “Pee-wee Herman” Reubens, and range from the consumerist futurism of Design for Dreaming, to the child-friendly paranoia of Duck and Cover, to the moral indignation of Perversion for Profit, to the just-plain befuddling Joan Avoids a Cold. (Full program is below.)
Hist-o-Rama 3D!: It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time continues my mission to take the strange and wonderful films of the past and offer them up to audiences in a new context. Through the SpaceBrains3D process, the films attain an otherworldly atmosphere that heightens their already offbeat worldviews. It’s a special pleasure that PUFF audiences will be the first to enter this strange, strange world – let’s hope we all make it out with our sanity intact!
Event Date: Oct 1, 2023 3:00 PMVenue: Theatre Exile in South Philadelphia (1340 S 13th St, Philadelphia PA 19147)Ticket Price: $15.00Box Office: https://filmfreeway.com/PhiladelphiaUnnamedFilmFestival/tickets
Hist-o-Rama 3D!: It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time program:Destination Earth (1956)Lunchroom Manners (1959)Hey, Stop That! (1965)Make Mine Freedom (1948)Duck and Cover (1952)Perversion for Profit (1965)Joan Avoids a Cold (1947)Design for Dreaming (1956)
ABOUT DAN PERSONS AND SPACEBRAINS3D:
Hi, I’m Dan Persons, the dba behind Upstart Company and the conceiver, developer, and sole practitioner of SpaceBrains3D, a system that combines AI and manual processes to create a unique brand of dimensional entertainment. This is by no means a fly-by-night, cash-in type of operation; I come to it from a lifelong passion for how tech can be used to create more experiential forms of art, three years of experimentation born of a dissatisfaction over how mainstream studios were utilizing stereoscopic presentation as a cynical way to apply a premium upsell to the same-ol’ same-ol’, and a thirty year background in film journalism and criticism, including stints at ifc.com and reelz.com, my editorship at the legendary fan magazine Cinefantastique, and present posts doing reviews for WBAI NY’s Hour of the Wolf, and a monthly column, The SF Path to Higher Consciousness, for tor.com.
This is a very personal and intensely creative project for me. I am eager to discuss my views on the use of film tech to enhance a viewer’s experience, my personal journey in developing SpaceBrains3D, and why I regard what I’m producing as artistic works in their own right. I’m available for interview by phone or on-line, in-person here in Philadelphia, and can also come to you if it can be accommodated within a day-trip.
ABOUT THE PHILADELPHIA UNNAMED FILM FESTIVAL:
The Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival (PUFF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit alternative film festival, founded in 2016 to bring new and undiscovered films to the diverse community in Philadelphia. More than just a “horror” film festival, each year PUFF includes an eclectic mix of features, short films and music videos, including sci-fi, action, documentary, bizarre, drama and more. We featured over sixty films in 2022, and plan to expand our programming in 2023. PUFF is 100% volunteer-run, founded and operated by disabled artists. We strongly support the visibility of this thriving community in Philadelphia and beyond.
