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"Comforting Hovers" DVD -- $15

"To the Diggers" DVD -- $15

Both films on One DVD with all bonus materials -- $25

Films Get Born Again AGAIN as DVD's

This sub-menu in the "Comforting Hovers" DVD will take you to 5 different conversation topics derived from the film.

     Mark is giving birth to two films the third time by authoring DVD's for them.

     The films made it through the inspiration (1st birth) and execution (2nd birth) and now have the difficult birth of exhibition. (See the article below "Giving Birth to One Baby Three Times".)
     Unlike birthing a human baby, we can pause our labor right here to ask for help. Exactly like birthing babies, the "mother" must be fed and kept healthy, the lights kept on, the supplies flowing.   

Will you help this birthing?

     We need $1,000 dollars immediately to catch up on staff salary, utilities and supplies to print and package the DVD's. 

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You can pre-order the DVD's in the post above.
 
     Films are not complete works of art until people watch them. We are working on getting our short art films out as stimulants for life changing conversations. 
     "Comforting Hovers", the advent themed film, is ready to copy, print and package.
     "To the Diggers", the film which just premiered in July, is in the process of being integrated into a DVD program.

The Main Menu for the DVD of "To the Diggers".

To review the Film-Gallery-Cafe concept
go to the latest blog post on it.

Bonus Materials
     Both DVD's feature menus of helps for conversation, the text of the sound track poem and menus of artwork used in the films. Each film will be available as a single DVD and a DVD is being created to carry both films with all their bonus materials.

     These DVD's will also be helpful tools in growing support for the Film-Gallery-Cafe concept. We hope to produce a video soon to accompany these DVD's explaining the gallery concept .

     Thank you for all your prayers and support.

     Okay, may I continue to give birth now, please?.   

Giving Birth to 1 Baby 3 Times

     Making a work of art is like giving birth three times. We must allow each birth to be fully realized, or suffer its premature death.
     Only the artist feels this in such drastic terms. It often seems to artists that no one cares about "our baby".
     The three births usually overlap. At each stage the artist is tempted to stop with a satisfaction of completion, but each stage must be thoroughly developed.    

The Artist Support Group is hosting a fuller discussion of the three stages of art on Sunday, October 16th, 12 noon to 1:30pm in the Guild Room of St. Paul's Cathedral, 2728 Sixth Avenue, San Diego, CA 92103.

Inspiration

     The idea excites the imagination and grows as the artist considers the range of methods, materials, and final outcomes. It is developing inside the artist. Planning, sketching and experimentation give way to the second birthing.

Execution

     The artist chooses a path to realize the physical manifestation of the idea. Mistakes, re-working, labor, fatigue, losses and gains, discouragements, discoveries and successes are part of the process toward the final piece sitting completed in the artist's space. But, the piece could remain unknown without the third birth, and this one may be the hardest of all.

Exhibition

     It can be like a christening, sending your child off to her first day of school, or giving her away in marriage when the artist brings their work out to the public. Having agonized to birth it twice already, the artist prepares to give it away, to say good-bye, knowing that it will never be fully realized until it enters the hearts of others.

Artists May Seem Crazy Sometimes

     When a work is thoroughly developed in each stage it is truly a dear part of the artist and this is partly the reason for neurotic behavior of artists worrying about rejection, criticism and acceptance by others. Mark and Donna's dream is that the art and films we produce will spark new life and fellowship with God in the hearts of those who experience them.