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Now Entering Flatland!
Ryan Hickman, Huntsville Times
Local filmmaker relies on Net for production, distribution
In a modest house not far from Huntsville Hospital, with an attic full of computers,
a four-monitor home studio and a makeshift sound booth, local auteur
Ladd Ehlinger Jr.
has been quietly setting a standard for maverick animated filmmaking in a new age of computer-driven cinema.
Ehlinger had gone to the University of New Orleans to be a director, had
written screenplays and ventured out to make low-budget movies (he calls them "peanut butter and jelly films,"
referring to the actors' compensation). But it wasn't until two years ago when he sold his shares in the
computing power company ResPower that he would strike out into a whole new means of movie production...
Now, more than two months after the independent release of his feature-length,
animated film
Flatland
(distributed almost exclusively from the Web site www.flatlandthefilm.com),
Ehlinger is building buzz on the Internet from his new approach to animation and gaining popularity in academic
circles from his adaptation of the 1884 novella of the same name.
YouTube Pick
The biggest coup for
Flatland
happened on Jan. 27 when it was showcased as a featured video on the
ultra-popular video sharing site www.youtube.com for 12 hours.
A mysterious, crusted over Sphere from Flatland
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