On Monday, 20.02.06, at 10:00AM, the challenge finally started. We interviewed some participants about where they came from and how they prepared themselves for this film marathon. We also spoke with Maciek and Ola from WroFilm - the organizers of the film marathon - at the moment when the challenge began.
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AND
here are the updates on Day 2 (Tuesday, 21.02.06):
09:40 - 49 contestants remaining / 8 contestants eliminated. There was a talk of a “technical problem” earlier in the morning (to be clarified later on). At this moment, the films are projected 20min ahead of the published schedule.
11:30 - 48 contestants remaining / 9 contestants eliminated. More details about the “technical problem”: it seems that the distributor who provided the films in digital format either did not do “good compression” of the films or did the “wrong compression” (more info coming later today). Whatever was the case, some time in the morning, it appears that the film suddenly stopped and, then, 4 contestants left the cinema, believing that the projection would not continue. At this moment, with the fear of encountering another “technical problem,” the organizers are projecting relatively “shorter” films, instead of “very long” films, and also from the backup stock of films. The projection is no longer following the published schedule (at this moment, they are projecting “Dancer in the Dark” by Lars von Trier). We will get more updates later today.
15:00 - 47 contestants remaining / 10 contestants eliminated. The “technical problem” still exists but the organizers are doing their best to stick to the published schedule. They are also trying to re-synchronize the projections to the published schedule (the projection was still 20 min ahead of schedule). The details about this “technical problem” will be published in our next video podcast.
