Australian/ Italian film maker talks about his Youtube opus

They say the book is always better than the movie

IT is kinda weird when we authors post  videos supporting our novels.

I mean why would someone want to watch a vid we cobbled together for a few bucks when they could take a squizz at a cool-song video which had a budget stretching into the hundreds of thousands of dollars if not millions?

 You feel you should put a warning up front: please do not judge the worth of my novel by the quality of this video.

We are just lucky there are enough people, out there, like me, who relish videos with cracks to allow the light of humanity through.

You would hope that Johnny Depp or Charlize Theron heard you were making a video and offered to put in a pro-bono cameo. We might have got John Travolta before Pulp Fiction but no hope of that now.

Tim Burton should stroll by and offer to direct. “Go easy on that Gothic imagery, Timbo. Iraqi icicle is a noir detective comedy and I cannot remember any Goths in those.”

Without the professional help, a video in support of my novel Iraqi Icicle is just plain crazy.

Technically, my video is not bad, thanks to film maker, Robert Martin. But it is waaaay too loooong for your average Yu-tube-vuwa.

What was I thinking? WTF were we doing, constructing the Youtube equivalent of Bertoluuci’s five-hour 1900?

You can see how many people have watched the vid. I wonder how many finished it.

So here is your challenge, watch the video to the end and tell us what you think.

- Bernardo Dowlolucci.