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Short Atheist Film
May 15, 2011 at 8:56 pm
(This post was last modified: May 15, 2011 at 8:57 pm by Gazz.)
Last year I wrote and directed a short atheist film called 'Vessel in Vain'. I originally wrote it to help a friend through some hard times he was having with life and his beliefs but found it to be my own last step between agnosticism and atheism.
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"Vessel In Vain" is a drama short that tells the story of one man's spiritual travels with his urn.
Though the script had been wrote some time before shooting we only had the shortest production period and there are some glaring technical errors, but as my first real film I do hope you enjoy.
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RE: Short Atheist Film
May 15, 2011 at 11:22 pm
Powerful. At the end, he took off his wedding band. Was it his wife who passed away?
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RE: Short Atheist Film
May 16, 2011 at 5:22 am
Thank you. Yes, you're spot on. It was his wedding band and the urn contains the ashes of his wife who has passed (he's still wearing his funeral attire also) though the ring and urn are largely symbolic of the death that looms over us and we carry as if a weight on our minds. I think people get to wrapped up in providing meaning and relentlessly pondering over what comes that they often overlook what they have now.
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RE: Short Atheist Film
May 17, 2011 at 1:07 pm
Great film Gazz, I liked it a lot.
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RE: Short Atheist Film
May 17, 2011 at 2:22 pm
That guy looks a lot like Naveen Andrews (Sayid Jarrah) from Lost.
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RE: Short Atheist Film
May 18, 2011 at 1:55 pm
(May 18, 2011 at 11:15 am)Gazz Wrote: Thank you guys for watching the film. I'm humbled by your responses.
(May 17, 2011 at 2:22 pm)orogenicman Wrote: That guy looks a lot like Naveen Andrews (Sayid Jarrah) from Lost.
We've been saying that to him since we watched the first episode together. He does a great Sayid impression with the "we have to triangulate the signal" line 
Charlie: They'll find us. They have satellites in space that can take pictures of your license plate.
Sayid: If only we were all wearing license plates.
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
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RE: Short Atheist Film
May 22, 2011 at 1:22 pm
Great! I shared it on my facebook page. That was shot with a 5D Mark II? I have that camera. Love it!
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