THE MIDDLE EAST - JESUS CAME TO MY BIRTHDAY PARTY

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  • Massimo Balloi Thank's:)
    1 day ago - comment
  • DIDISH.REC nice one !
    4 months ago - comment
  • Massimo Balloi Sorry: the video is made in Super 8mm in purpose , of course.
    9 months ago - comment
    • biemme Im puzzled about the Juri feedback. Maybe the video was not worthy of winning, but not for the reasons stated by ythem. What they call "bad quality of production" (more or less) is not a mistake or sloppiness. It is your signature style. A contemporary form of Neoralism, using poverty as an expressive means. Certainly not everyone appreciates, but It is a style. It would be like saying "Interesting Dogma 95. Too bad that the filmmakers use only hand-held camera and there are no special effects"! It would be absurd, right?





      8 months ago
    • Massimo Balloi You're right! My research is about faces of people . The actors dont know i'm filming them ( I hate actors when the play like actors!). I can see details that I would not see with the naked eye. My inspiration remains the Italian Neo-Realism Antonioni, Pasolini, De Sica ... the time of films full of glam ,full of fashion it's over, the reality today is different than 10 years a go. Today everything has to be fantastic, good quality, but everybody can make good quality of videos... just need good plugings on Final Cut Pro X or adobe .but that is not cinema that is nothing. We have to start again to make real films, by using good instrument of course, new tecnology...but even good ideas next to the reality...This film is made with Super 8 mm camera 1960 on some parts..and other parts on Canon 3d..The juri didn't understand that the bad quality of the video it was the real quality...Thanks that you really understand about cinema! Cheers Massimo balloi
      8 months ago
  • Massimo Balloi The feedback from the JURI:
    "Potentially an interesting idea, but in the end it was let down by the overall production quality of the video"
    The video is mad Super 8mm in purpose, of course.
    9 months ago - comment
  • Massimo Balloi All the girls in the video are pregnant, expecting a child, except the girls in black and white. Thanks girls!
    9 months ago - comment
  • zubbizabbi 1000 mi piace???? ma davvero??? sono basito la gente ha gli occhi foderati di prosciutto. per quanto possa essere carina l'idea non è assolutamente un video da 1000 mi piace. (questa è una mia opinione)
    10 months ago - comment
    • Massimo Balloi com'e' un video da 1000 mi piace?...
      10 months ago
    • zubbizabbi questo http://genero.tv/watch-video/32120/
      10 months ago
    • Massimo Balloi Bellissimo video..veramente wawwwwwww!lo avevo votato di gia'! Mi ricorda Dolce e Gabbana di Steven Kline. Veramente bello. Mi sembra pero' che tu avvicini 2 generi musicali, e quindi video connessi molto diversi tra loro come Aime' e The Middle East o no?
      10 months ago
    • wunderwachtel Ma basta queste cazzate di commenti..Every time a video get's some more votes than others a handful people think that it's important to tell everybody that this isn't possible or that the video sucks. Hey, that's art - for one it's touching and great, for another it's just shit, that's how it goes. The idea of genero is genious - everybody can express his feelings for a music..one song and a couple of ideas completly different..it's just interesting to see what music can generate! So, to get the point..just enjoy the spirit and don't search the shit out of anything, it's just annoying to read the same comments again and again and again and again..scasami mister balloi di usare questo spazio per le mie parole..
      10 months ago
    • Massimo Balloi The only thing I can say is : I agree with you! They're killing my work with posts : this is my work that maybe like it or not . Thanks to genero and thanks to the people who have voted.The idea of Genero it's fantastic, cool and very modern. I watch other people videos and I enjoy to see different ideas, differents spaces, differets languages..it's just fantastic! Thanks Wunderwatchel ...yesterday I was very down...today it's better! Grazie caro amico, e ho sempre pensato che chi sa' fa' e chi non sa' ...critica!
      10 months ago
  • ive this must be really good, it even has more votes than it has views.
    10 months ago - comment
    • Massimo Balloi 422 views and 501 votes...!!!
      10 months ago
    • Massimo Balloi Hi Guys. It's because you can like it via Facebook without playing the video on Genero.
      10 months ago
    • BrooklynValley I think this entry really exposes the inherent flaws of the Facebook "like" finalist process. In my opinion this was one of the more lazy entries in this competition. The idea could have been developed into a more engaging video but wasn't. There are better videos that will get the shaft merely because this video accumulated more votes, more than double the amount of actual views. Which signals, needless to say, a second look at the voting system. Because this shouldn't be a competition in social networking.

      On the other hand, I am not part of The Middle East. They might think it's the best video and choose it as the winner. Either way good luck Massimo! My only criticism to the work is spend more time developing the idea!!!!!
      10 months ago
    • Massimo Balloi The only thing I can say this is my way of making films.
      You can develope my idea and spend more time than me and maybe make a better video. Why not? Good luck! Love Massimo Balloi
      10 months ago
  • ianupton I really lik the concept behind this....
    11 months ago - comment
  • Massimo Balloi People going to the party..by train..
    11 months ago - comment
    • lordybob Yes good concept! Are the people actors?
      11 months ago
    • Massimo Balloi All the world's a stage,
      And all the men and women merely players:...:)
      11 months ago
    • HOUNSOGNO.NET good luck Massimo:-)
      10 months ago
Artist: The Middle East
Song: Jesus Came to my ...
18 Jul 2011
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Description:

People are arriving at the party by tube, Different friends, different ages and nationality. Different memories.

Credits:

Italy By: Massimo Balloi
18 Jul 2011

Country: Italy

URL: http://www.massimoballoi.com

Bio:

Massimo Balloi


D.A.M.S. Discipline of Art, Music and Show (Italian higher education diploma in fine Arts, Music and Entertainment industry)
Neorealism-Surrealism-Dogma95-Nouvelle Vague

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together. Fellini