0Our friends at Sweet Talk Copenhagen do a series of design-related events in that fair city. They organized the Objectified screening event there, and printed a special CPH Objectified poster to promote it. They’ve got a few left from the event, and have just put them on sale. Very limited supply, get one here.
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9The digital download of Objectified is available for pre-order on iTunes USA, Canada, and UK!
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We’re pleased to announce two limited-edition versions of Objectified designed by our friends over at Build, and the Blu-ray disc edition of the film. Available for pre-order now!
USB Limited Edition
Fixed media? Meh. We’ve put a digital copy of the DVD on a tiny, custom-printed 16gb USB drive. Copy the file to your hard drive, watch the movie, and then use the nice little USB stick for all the things you normally use a USB stick. The anti-static bag is stuffed with five letterpress mini-posters and an Objectified badge designed by Build, plus a color C-print of a still from the film signed by director Gary Hustwit. Each copy also comes with one of the Objectified tote bags by Build. Limited edition of 500 copies, $75. Pre-order now.
DVD Limited Edition
Still using those shiny plastic discs to watch movies? We’ve also made a limited-edition DVD package, including the same letterpress mini-posters, badge, and signed still as the USB version, but with the DVD of the film and extras (NTSC, all-region). Plus the free tote bag. Limited edition of 500 copies, $75. Pre-order now.
Blu-ray Disc
Blu-ray fanatics, we heard you: pre-order the Blu-ray disc and watch the film and extras in their native high-definition format. Each Blu-ray pre-order comes with one of the Objectified tote bags by Build. Pre-order now and save $5 off the retail price of $34.95.
About pre-orders: your credit card will be charged when you place the order, and your copy will ship October 6. Limited-edition and Blu-ray pre-orders cannot be combined with other merchandise.
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8When Michael C. Place and the folks at Build were designing the Objectified film poster, the choice for the final design came down to two versions: one had a metallic silver background with white objects and text, the other had a white background with silver objects and black text. We thought both were beautiful, and we couldn’t make up our minds which one to go with. So after much deliberation we decided that we’d print the silver version first for the United States premiere, and do the white version for the UK and Europe events (pretty decisive, eh?).
Well, the silver colorway sort of took over as the identity of the film, appearing on postcards, adverts, t-shirts, the DVD cover, etc., and we never ended up printing the white version. So we’ve decided to do a limited-edition letterpress print of the “lost” white colorway: metallic black and metallic silver ink, A2 size (16 1/2″ x 23 1/2″) on Crane’s Lettra 300gsm paper, in an edition of 100 numbered copies, $125. Get one.
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0Please join director Gary Hustwit for a special one-night screening and discussion, presented in conjunction with AIGA Arizona and IDSA Arizona.
Sunday, August 16, 7pm
Harkin’s Valley Art Theatre
505 South Mill Avenue
Tempe, AZ
Post-film Q&A with Gary Hustwit
Tickets on sale now:
DOOR 7pm – General public $15, students, AIGA, IDSA members $12
Tickets will be available at the door starting at 6pm, cash only.
Tickets are non-transferrable and non-refundable. Questions? Please email tickets[at]objectifiedfilm[dot]com
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0Educators, inspire your students this fall with the ideas of some of the world’s most innovative designers by including Objectified in your curriculum. Colleges, libraries, and other cultural institutions can now pre-order the institutional DVD edition, which includes a limited public performance license that allows classroom and library use, and on-campus screenings that are free for students of that school and not advertised to the general public. Institutional DVDs ship October 6, pre-order a copy now.
PS: The Institutional DVD version of Helvetica is available here.
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0Our last event in LA sold out quickly, so we’ve organized another special one-night screening and discussion, presented in conjunction with AIGA Los Angeles and IDSA Los Angeles. Director Gary Hustwit will be in attendance for a post-film Q&A.
Wednesday, August 12, 8pm
Laemmle’s Royal Theatre
11523 Santa Monica Blvd.
West Los Angeles CA, 90025
Post-film Q&A with Gary Hustwit
Tickets on sale now:
DOOR 8pm – General public $20, students, AIGA, IDSA members $15
Advance tickets are no longer available, but tickets will be on sale at the door starting at 7pm, cash only.
Tickets are non-transferrable and non-refundable. Questions? Please email tickets[at]objectifiedfilm[dot]com
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The DVD of Objectified is now available for pre-order! The DVD includes the film plus an hour of bonus interview footage, and a booklet with liner notes by director Gary Hustwit. The DVD is all-region (0) NTSC, with English subtitles. Pre-order from our site you’ll save $5 and receive early shipping (a week before the official September 29 release date) and a free Objectified tote bag designed by Build. These bags will only be available with a limited number of early pre-orders, so get yours now. You’ll receive one bag per DVD ordered.
For the UK and Europe, order here.
For North America and the rest of the world, order here.
For the educational version of the DVD, order here.
A limited-edition version of the DVD will be announced August 10. Objectified will also be available as a digital download through iTunes on September 29, for USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and United Kingdom users. Other digital outlets will be announced soon.
Update: the DVD release date has been changed to October 13. Pre-orders will still receive early shipping, one week before the new release date.
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William Eggleston, Memphis, 1975, dye transfer print, Corcoran Gallery of Art
Catch-up post! The tour continues, although it’s starting to wind down (thank god!). Last week began with two great screenings at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC. The Corcoran is currently showing the photography exhibit William Eggleston: Democratic Camera. I’m a big fan of Eggleston’s photos. I saw this same exhibit at the Whitney late last year when I was finishing the film, and was really struck by his photos of people’s objects, just household objects like a vacuum cleaner in a corner, or the objects on someone’s mantle. I realized you could learn so much about a person, or about a moment in history, just by looking at a selection of their objects. The Eggleston photos actually inspired me to approach dozens of people and film objects that had personal meaning to them, and that footage ended up being the montage that ends Objectified.
We had two events in California, in Los Angeles and San Diego. I cannot begin to express my thanks to all the AIGA and IDSA chapters across the country who have been so helpful in organizing a lot of our events. California was no exception, with Josh Higgins in SD and Jill Finley in LA going the extra mile, along with dozens of volunteers. Special thanks as well to the staffs at Laemmle’s Royal Theater in West LA, and everyone at the Museum of Contemporary Art in La Jolla.
At the San Diego afterparty with AIGA SD’s Josh Higgins
El Ten Eleven, with live jet accompaniment
The San Diego event was especially cool due to an afterparty at the Subtext gallery, featuring a live set from Objectified soundtrack artists El Ten Eleven. If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me about their music in the film, I’d be at least a few hundred bucks richer. The party was outdoors, and the gallery is located at the base of the runway at San Diego airport, which meant that commercial jets were buzzing a few hundred feet above the band during the set! Fitting, since El Ten Eleven is named after an airplane. The band played a set of Helvetica and Objectified soundtrack faves, plus some new songs. They’re currently on tour in the US, definitely check them out if you can. Thanks to Kristian and Tim for coming down from LA to rock us.
Onward to Korea and a week of events in Seoul!
Cheers,
Gary
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All 13 screenings in Seoul this week are sold out. It looks like there will be another week of screenings added, stay tuned for details. Special thanks to everyone who bought tickets, and to all the event sponsors!
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