Dear FrameWorkers, I am happy to announce the launch of Re:Voir’s VOD platform “Re:Voir Online” which is an app for iPhone and iPad (with an Android version coming this winter). It is free to download and free to watch clips and trailers. To celebrate our launch, the subscriptions to watch full films will also automatically start with a 30 day free promo, until the end of this year.
The link is here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/online-re-voir/id1545131544 Currently 159 films are available by 54 filmmakers including Maya Deren, Michael Snow, Philippe Garrel, Dominic Angerame, Stan Brakhage, Storm de Hirsch, Sandy Ding, Rose Lowder, Holly Fisher, Peter Gidal, Jonas and Adolfas Mekas, Maurice Lemaitre, Isidore Isou, Marie Losier, Vivian Ostrovsky, Jacques Perconte, Jeff Scher, Robert Todd, MM Serra, Larry Gottheim, Peter Goldman, Tony Conrad, Adolfo Arrietta and many more. New films are being added every week. I founded Re:Voir in 1994 as a VHS label for experimental film in Paris. Ten years later DVD took over the market but the MPEG compression algorithms didn’t work well for experimental films and we refused to make them. Over the next few years this improved and for the past ten years we have been releasing DVDs every month. We celebrated our 25th anniversary last year. But I have been working in South Korea for a few years and I saw right away there is no market for DVD here. Everyone watches films on their devices. We have developed this app in order to provide films to places like this where DVDs are not sold, so the films can be discovered by a new young audience around the world. We are continuing to publish DVD and Blu-Ray (our latest releases are Siegfried Fruhauf, Dore O and Werner von Mutzenbecher, with a Marie Losier blu-ray coming in December). The app is being developed in parallel, and to avoid a gap in the future, as we had between VHS and DVD. Please send me any feedback about the app, bugs, or features you would like to see. If you know how to develop and program apps I would love to be in touch with you. And thanks always for supporting independent filmmakers and independent labels. Pip Chodorov, Re:Voir
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