Curse + Berate in 69 Seconds...
An announcement from our friends and business partners at the Gobshite Quarterly...
Attention all film & video geeks, cinema & film studies majors, videographers & would-be pornographers. (Actual pornographers need not apply.) The sickened & twisted & jaded folks at Gobshite Quarterly are pleased as Plato on percocet to announce a Contest on the Internet.
Rules: To qualify one must submit compressed video files on a compact disc, along with an SASE & cover letter identifying the filmmakers, to:
GobQ LLC, PO Box 11346, Portland OR 97211-0346.
There are three (3) basic rules:
RULE ONE: The film or video (whether 70/35/16/super-8 mm, H-D, x-ray, or kirkian photography) must be no more than sixty-nine (69) seconds long, & no less! Submissions of 68 or 70 seconds shall not qualify. Sixty nine (69) seconds is what entrants MUST aim for, & achieve—whether individuals or teams.
RULE TWO: The content of the film or video can be in any narrative form (dramatic, comedic), whether sketch, puppet show, live action or animé...but the content MUST be based on or inspired by curse + berate in 69+ languages.
RULE THREE: Audio in one of the 69+ languages chosen needs to be provided by native-speakers, or people at least fluent enough not to sound like stroke victims or grade school Spanish teachers . (If this rule is broken it better be broken brilliantly.) Submitted films will be posted on the You-Tube and be judged by a panel including the producer of Ramones' END OF THE CENTURY.
RULE FOUR: The first submission is free. However, multiple submissions must include a $10 entry fee (chk or money order).
FIRST PRIZE: $200, a t-shirt, & a selection of Soft Skull titles.
SECOND PRIZE: $50, a t-shirt, & a selection of Soft Skull titles.
THIRD PRIZE: a t-shirt, & a selection of Soft Skull titles.
Deadline: Films must be submitted by Bastille Day, 2008.
curse + berate in 69+ languages
being a concise compendium + verbal pictionary + day-for-night-book of salaams + salutations + greetings + schadenfreude + unblessings + invective + invidious comparisons + insults + sarcasms + snits + pouts + unkind words + anti-benedictions + obscenities, delicate + indelicate + blasphemies + verbal aggggresssssions + cris-de-coeur + merde-de-jour + esprit de l'escalier + sinister wisdoms + tantrums + thought-crimes + bigotries + dutch courage + tijuana bibles + german sense of humor + aneurysms-for-brunch + sit-next-to-mezes in approx. 90 languages - give or take a dialectic or uncivil war ...
Curse + Berate in 69+ Languages by R. V. Branham