PressPausePlay

The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent in an unprecedented way, with unlimited opportunities.

But does democratized culture mean better art or is true talent instead drowned out? This is the question addressed by PressPausePlay, a documentary film containing interviews with some of the world's most influential creators of the digital era.

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The Human Spirit; when it is

allowed to become... made manifest

through art, invariably is going to

create greatness. You know, it

almost doesn't matter what the

medium is, it doesn't matter what

the financials are, it doesn't

matter what the delivery vehicles

are; when humans make stuff we tend

to make interesting things. So if

you give a human a hammer and a

piece of wood, they are going to

make something interesting. If you

give a human a computer and

broadband access they're going to

make something interesting.

In the olden days about 30-40 years ago

people didn't make things

you know like some people would go to photography exhibits

peoplo would go buy records

and there were proffesional artists

and now everybody is a photographer

everybody is a film maker

everybody is a writer, everybody is a musician

See before you could sell a record for $10 or $16.98 as a CD

because there were still this inherent mistery about how it was done? who did it? and how can i do that thing?

well know that mistery has disolved itself because i can make it, anybody can make it

they know the secrets now

i think that this is an incredible final time for artist

there is no cap on creativity

the technological advances have given the artist an open door to creating as much as their capacity will allow

Anybody can go out and make a movie, anybody who has 1500 usd can buy a camera

even if you don't there is some many ways to make movies, there is some many waves to distribute a film,

on the internet... you know there is a million different platforms

so that's all really good for people wanting to express themselves but also makes it a lot harder

to kind of break through all of the noise

A young fast Bender, a young Bender, a young Hitchcock, a young Scorcesse, they wouldn't make it in this business

slap up their artist stuff on Facebook, on Youtube, it would get lost, it would get lost in the ocean of garbage

You remeber in 2007, Time magazine gave the award of best person of the year to YOU, ourselves, you and I

it's global masturbation

Used to be, you become an artist to become rich, become an artist because you have an idea to share

because you have an emotion to share

and that's where we are headed again

are we gonna see more people, do more art, in more ways than ever before

Almost everybody i knew in the world of Art, Music, Literature, Creative Expression,

everybody is equally excited and affraid

No one really know where's their next pay check is coming from, but they are really excited at their ability to create work

and communicate directly with an audience