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I was inspired by the work of the various videobloggers I saw tonight at Anthology film archives. Our work looked great on the big screen. Seeing the works all together like this, with an audience mostly composed of videobloggers, helped me understand what we are doing. We are communicating with each other. We are sharing. We are building a community of people who communicate with video, a community that connects over borders, ages, color, and gender. Out of this come real face to face connections, real understanding. That is powerful. I am grateful to be part of this. This group is not a perfect cross section of society. It’s composed of people with access to broadband, computers, and cameras. It skews white, male, and well educated. But I feel like it is an open group, composed of people who mean well, want to communicate, and want to listen. How many groups do you know of that are like that?

An exciting development: The guy who runs the NewFilm series at Anthology Film Archives is interested in us doing a weekly program of videoblog material at the Archives starting in the fall. Yeah!

We had a smallish crowd, but I think if this event was weekly and we promoted it a little, it could grow into something pretty cool, as well as creating face to face interactions between videobloggers, which I think is so helpful for building culture.

After the show, we had a drink at Remote where we were joined by Yury Gitman the teacher, dreamer, and artist. Always fun to see Yury.

Thanks to Ryanne Hodson for putting the videos together and grouping them thematically, thanks to Jay Dedman for helping to hook the event up, and thanks to the Archives for having us. Looks like we’ll be back.