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THE CINEMA DETECTIVE (World Premiere Screening) + "The Couch" + N.O. Smith Plays the Music of SATUR-19

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THE CINEMA DETECTIVE will have its world premiere screening at Normal's Books & Records in Baltimore, on Thursday May 2, 2024 at 7PM. Cost is $10 cash at the door. Directed by Matt Barry. Written by Matt Barry and Cullen Gallagher. Starring Matt Barry and Cullen Gallagher. THE CINEMA DETECTIVE is an experimental/essay feature film and sequel to FORBIDDEN FRAMES. Under house arrest following his attempted escape from the State, renegade film historian Kevin Quartermain is tasked with deciphering the meaning behind a mysterious video signal that has appeared on the State Communication Channel. He enlists the help of his old friend, archivist George Kaplan, who now exists only as an AI simulation inside the Image Chamber. Their search for answers about the footage leads them back to the birth of cinema itself... Program: THE CINEMA DETECTIVE (Feature) "The Couch" (Short) N.O. Smith Plays the Music of SATUR-19 Click to view trailer below:
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Poster for "The Cinema Detective"

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The Cameras of "The Cinema Detective"

Three different cameras were used to shoot THE CINEMA DETECTIVE. The driving footage segments were shot with the Google Pixel 5 smartphone on a dashboard mount. The main sequences with the character of Kevin Quartermain, including his scenes in the Image Chamber, were filmed with the Canon Rebel T7 DSLR camera. The scenes with George Kaplan inside the Image Chamber were filmed with the Zoom Qn2-4K video recorder. Footage from all three cameras is combined in the film. There is no one "right" camera to use -- just whatever one is right for what you're trying to achieve with your film. Each camera can serve a different purpose.
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New Publicity Photos from "The Cinema Detective"

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 Matt Barry as Cinema Detective Kevin Quartermain investigating the driving footage:
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"The Cinema Detective" First Teaser Trailer

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First Publicity Photos from "The Cinema Detective"

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Film sleuth Kevin Quartermain (Matt Barry) and State Film Archivist George Kaplan (Cullen Gallagher) inside the Image Chamber.    
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What is "The Cinema Detective"?

What is THE CINEMA DETECTIVE movie? THE CINEMA DETECTIVE is a new independent feature film, directed by Matt Barry, written by and starring Matt Barry and Cullen Gallagher. The film follows the characters from FORBIDDEN FRAMES and imagines what happens to them after the events of the first film. Where did the idea come from? The idea for this film began with a piece of experimental video footage that I shot back in April 2023. I had no particular plans as to how to use this footage, and set it aside for several months. Through the process of thinking about this footage and the different ways in which it could be used, I came to the idea of THE CINEMA DETECTIVE: what would happen if someone was tasked with analyzing a mysterious piece of film that they knew absolutely nothing about? What could they learn from this footage? What possible meanings and purposes could it contain? These are questions we delve into in THE CINEMA DETECTIVE, against the backdrop of a dystopian fiction. What is ...
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