Hello Robert, My two cents…
I have a website and never sold a single work through it. I believe that's not how it works. Sales of films, in my experience, happen through a relationship of trust, which is based on your pedigree and through which line of interpersonal mediations your work comes into the radar of a potential buyer. If you are selling normally priced DVDs, where there is no idea of a limited number of prints or exhibition copies, it's another story of course. Instead, a website would allow you to contextualize your films in a much better way than Vimeo, through thought-thru design, well edited text, etc. That being said, I think it's a widely accepted practice to show artist films on Vimeo. best, Marco On 8 December 2015 at 18:19, Robert Withers <withe...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Hello Frameworkers, > A second attempt to post this . . . > I have a web site that requires me to keep the provider paid up and work to > update and maintain it. Mostly I use it to feature some films. > I also have a vimeo page that is very easy to upload films to and edit. It > doesn't cost me anything and may last longer than me. > Is there any reason for a filmmaker to have a dedicated web page except > perhaps to sell things? > Thanks for any thoughts on this . . . > Cheers, > Robert > > > withe...@earthlink.net > > WithersWorks.com > https://vimeo.com/robertwithers > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks -- Marco Poloni http://www.theanalogueislandbureau.net Usedomer Strasse 8 D – 13355 Berlin gsm de +49.163.6294080 gsm ch +41.78.6322028 skype marcopoloni _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
