RACE TRACK
RACE TRACK is where filmmaker and author Justine Bateman’s films, books, essays, photography, and poetry take a ride.
“This is the time to rethink the distribution of art, particularly film. The 100-year old film business we enjoyed is dead. What you see reported now is shallow substitute more closely related to a conveyor belt of “content.” (Read more in my Fast Company op-ed.)
The distribution deals that worked so well with theater releases, are a poor match with streaming deals, and do not favor the filmmaker or the audience. I’ve long said that it’s better now for a filmmaker to focus on an audience of 100,000 people who are passionate about film and art, than spend millions of dollars trying to reach 1,000,000 people who may or may not care about film at all. It’s time to minimize the financial and communal connection between the artist and the viewer.
And so, let’s move onto private art clubs where those who are interested in The New can look and read and watch and mingle. That is what my CREDO 23 Film Festival is about. That is what RACE TRACK is for. Subscribers are those who want to be on the track and pushing into what is artistically beyond.”
Read Bateman’s bio here.
Why subscribe?
Access to Justine Bateman’s writing, photography, films, and community.
Tiered subscription: Free (limited access) and Paid (full access).
Included in free subscription:
Film Club posts, essays, photos, film trailers, GET REAL show trailers.
Included in paid subscription:
Exclusive Items
#SocialMediaVideoCritique index for Bateman’s popular series on X.
Bateman’s essays, poems, photographs.
Early access for all op-eds written for publications.
Special Screenings (Coming soon)
Limited-window film screenings:
See Bateman’s avant-garde films, LOOK and FEEL, only available online here.
Also, films by other filmmakers, hand-picked by Bateman.
GET REAL show (Coming soon)
Early access to Bateman’s new talk show, GET REAL.
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