u/deathbymediaman

Hey all; I’ve been working on a few projects for a few years now and I’m still looking to develop/join both a filmmaking community and an audience.

Now, a few notes: we’ve got these categories like “analog horror” and “alternate reality game” and I’m not sure if my work fits neatly into those. It’s “unfiction” as much as anything. There’s analog elements, but sometimes the story is as much comedy as it is horror. And there’s elements to “discover” but it’s not like there’s riddles to solve like in many traditional ARGs.

Then there’s age. One of the weirdest elements of finding an online community/audience is that often I find reddits or even discords to check out, only to quickly discover that I’m old enough to be most members’ father.

Hey, I like being a middle-aged experimental film maker, but some of these online communities are so thick with teens and pre-teens that I start to feel like the old creep hanging out at the kiddie pool. Not to mention how fun it is to be critiqued by people younger than my computer, let alone people younger than the Blair Witch Project.

(No offence to young creators - I love seeing young folks developing wild ideas, and am often blown away by how professional & creative they can be. I just don’t always want to talk about life with people decades younger than myself.)

I want to talk about my processes. I want to find people who enjoy engaging with the sort of material I’m making.

But sometimes, despite being chronically online since 1995, I still feel like I’m missing out a sense of community that’d maybe alleviate some of the solitude I feel working/filming/editing/posting all alone.

So where are all the cool old experimental digital film-makers hanging out? 

And where do y’all go to share your work with others, aside from this space here?

This file details an encounter with an anomalous entity and the negative psychic feedback created through its interactions with the local populace.

This file is part of an ongoing series, published with the intent to explore and examine unexplained phenomena throughout the region.

Doll Faced David is an anomalous entity who has been spotted on public transit on the East Side of the city of [ʀᴇᴅᴀᴄᴛᴇᴅ].

As the file details, the creature/individual is most often considered passive/docile, but [ᴀᴄᴄᴏʀᴅɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ᴡɪᴛɴᴇꜱꜱ ᴛᴇꜱᴛɪᴍᴏɴʏ] is capable of surreal acts of violence, should attention be drawn to its facial covering.

[ᴠɪᴅᴇᴏ ᴅᴇɢʀᴀᴅᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ᴏɴ ᴛʜɪꜱ ꜰɪʟᴇ ɪꜱ ꜱᴇᴇᴍɪɴɢʟʏ ᴜɴɪɴᴛᴇɴᴛɪᴏɴᴀʟ, ᴀɴᴅ ɪꜱ ᴄᴏɴꜱɪᴅᴇʀᴇᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ʀᴇꜱᴜʟᴛ ᴏꜰ ᴀ ꜱᴇᴘᴀʀᴀᴛᴇ, ᴏᴜᴛꜱɪᴅᴇ, ᴘᴀʀᴀɴᴏʀᴍᴀʟ ɪɴꜰʟᴜᴇɴᴄᴇ ᴏɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴜꜱᴇʀ'ꜱ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡᴀʀᴇ.]