There is an old gold vault just outside Washington, DC, which holds the kind of (national) taxes most film Nerds can only dream of seeing. But when a movie screens in the Library of Congress’s Theater, the filmmakers can get a tour of the library’s vault. That’s it “Hundreds of beaver” Producer Kurt Ravenwood ended by seeing one of the original prints of Edwin Stanton Porter’s early Silent Western, ”The big train robbery. ”
Now director Mike Cheslik’s murder-driven tribute to everything from silent slapstick to Nintendo side-scroll platform game has its own film print. As with most things ”Hundreds of beaver“Related, what started as a joke among the filmmaking team ended with being followed quite seriously.
“We made this movie very cheap and part of how we did it cheap was by having the entire workflow (i) 1080p. So in a way it is a joke to print a 35mm movie, but it is also an artistic choice. The whole movie and the work that Mike did on it was a tribute to many of these older films, (to) silent film, “Ravenwood told IndieWire. “But even the grain in 16 mm independent film is (an influence). So it’s just meaningful. ”
The most important reason why “hundreds of beaver” has been able to follow to beat a 35 mm pressure is that they have kept control of their distribution Rights, so the team can be opportunistic about new ways to exhibit and create physical copies of the film. “We don’t have to wait for a distributor who has moved to his next movie to continue doing things,” said Ravenwood.
But that means they have to do all cool things – including over 200 theater views, a Roadshow With personal beaver wrestling, festival runs and getting the film set to stream and play on aircraft, in addition to hitting a print-for themselves. Ravenwood led the accusation when he calculated where and how to create a print from a movie shot on a Panasonic GH4. Some independent theaters where “hundreds of beaver” has been shown advised Ravenwood to connect with Cinelab, a company based in Romania, which had also made a pressure of “The People’s Joker.”

“They were a little confused about why they got a 1080p film file, and I explained to them that is what our movie is. We (had to have) a little back and forth on car speeds, ”said Ravenwood. “The lovely people at the Oriental Theater here in Milwaukee, which is a wonderful movie palace as a rivals quite a lot that I have seen in the world, they have a really talented projection team there who (ran) the movie for us (to proof).”
Looking at the reluctant hunter Jean Kayak (Ryland Brickson Cole Tews) tries to slalom away from a top secret beaver for the 4,000th time is not as exciting as seeing it for the first time, of course, but Ravenwood has been excited in that way as the test pressure already takes its own life.
“The whites were beautiful and they had the subtle type of flash you get with 35 mm that you don’t get with digital,” said Ravenwood. “There is something special about the flicker (and) that kind of softer appearance. It is not as sharp as our digital projection. The sound has a more rounded quality that is difficult to describe. And I really love it, because we just strike a pressure for now, it will get its own little strange patina when it travels around the United States. ”

Finally “Hundreds of beaver” movie print Is set to start their cross-country skiing odyssey and for more than just a limited commitment but as long as theaters will host it. For starters, the 35mm version of “Hundreds of Beavers” will play in Dallas at the Texas Theater on February 26 and at Somerville Theater in the Boston area on March 7, with more 2025 views planned at the music box in Chicago, IFC in New York City , Cleveland Cinematheque, The Loft in Tucson, Hollywood Theater in Portland, Oregon and more to be announced.
The 35mm version of the film also represents somewhat more difficult to come with than a merchant’s daughter’s hand in marriage: permanence in a age of media stored digitally. “I have hard drives from ten years ago that I have no idea how to go anymore. All our films are on these hard drives and in the cloud and on all these places-I do not know what long-term (future) is. It is very volatile. So it’s just something really beautiful about having it on this permanent physical medium, ”said Ravenwood. “I love that I can deliver an actual movie print of our film to my director. It feels really cool as a producer in the 2020s. ”
It is for the same love for Physical media that “hundreds of beaver” teams have announced alImited edition vhs version of the movie. If we are all lucky, hopefully the pressure will still be in a vault somewhere a hundred years from now on – but go first in theaters.
Theater information for screening for ”Hundreds of beaver ” is available on their website.