Modern Prometheus

Modern Prometheus Finished

One year ago tomorrow, December 17th, we began shooting Modern Prometheus in the Brooklyn apartment being rented by Joao Lameira and Mafalda Melo. Today, the final cut of the film was released to cast, crew, & those who donated both money and time to help get the film made.

The final product clocks in just under 33 minutes. Soon, it will be made available to anyone who wants to see it but for the time being it’s just available to a select few. It will be more widely available in 2011.

Keep an eye on this site for further news about the movie. Also, please join the Facebook Page, subscribe to the YouTube Channel, follow on Twitter, Vimeo, MySpace, Blip.tv, or Tumblr. Whichever is your preference, you’ll get status updates on most of those networks (YouTube, Vimeo, and Blip.tv will just include new videos if/when they are available).

The Films That Inspired Modern Prometheus Part Two: Kairo (Pulse) (2001)

Kairo (2001)
Written and Directed by: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Starring: Haruhiko Katô, Kumiko Asô, and Koyuki

I am not well versed in Japanese culture, Japanese cinema, or even Japanese horror cinema but I have a passing interest in it and appreciate some of the aesthetics of what I’ve been fortunate enough to see. I remember seeing the advertisements for the 2006 remake, Pulse, and thinking to myself that the movie looked like it had a cool idea that they were going to execute poorly.

In 2009, I came across the Japanese original while looking through what was available on Netflix Instant Watch in the Japanese Horror category. It made sense to me that Pulse had been a remake of a Japanese horror film as it had looked a lot like The Ring, which was a remake of a Japanese horror film. I added Kairo to my Instant Watch queue with plans to watch it eventually.

While working on the early drafts of Modern Prometheus I wanted to expose myself to a slightly different horror aesthetic than I had been and I wanted to expose myself to a ghost story, because there are elements of a ghost story in Modern Prometheus. I remember Kairo was in my queue and thought I’d give it a shot.

I was quite impressed with it. I’m not sure I entirely followed the plot but I was definitely very creeped out by it and its shadow lurking ghosts. I thoroughly enjoyed it. It gave me ideas that were integrated into the script and my approach for some of the more supernatural aspects of Modern Prometheus.

Modern Prometheus Across the Internet

In order to allow as much access as possible to the project and updates I’ve spread Modern Prometheus across as many platforms as I could think of. Everyone has their favorite ways of consuming the internet. Some prefer to read everything in their own RSS reader, some prefer Facebook, some like podcasts, others are keen on MySpace, and some just want to occasionally check a central website. So, Modern Prometheus is represented across as many of these as I could manage.

• Website: http://www.modernprometheusmovie.com/
• Tumblr: http://www.modernprometheusmovie.com/
• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Modern-Prometheus/212347968408?ref=nf
• MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/modernprometheusmovie
• Vimeo Channel: http://vimeo.com/channels/modernprometheus
• YouTube Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=619D95F682100768
• Blip.tv Show: http://modernprometheus.blip.tv/
• Podcast iTunes URL: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/modern-prometheus/id354542739
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/modprometheus

I would, of course, be interested in spreading it to even more corners of the internets that people prefer to use. What am I missing? Is there a space you use that Modern Prometheus doesn’t have a footprint on? I want to bring the movie to where people are at rather than try to funnel everyone to the movie.

More to come on all of these spaces soon.