Surrealist Studios Filmmaking Blog

Surrealist Studios is still going!

Yes, apologies for the lack of updates on Surrealist Studios.

Firstly, I find it hard to believe how far Surrealist Studios has come. The Surrealist Studios website was launched on 30th August 2004 complete with our short films ready to watch online and download. Thats over 4 years ago! To put this in perspective, YouTube was only launched in 2005 and that kickstarted the online video revolution. Now, in 2008, it is an extremely saturated market with millions of low-budget and homemade short films on thousands of websites. Of course Surrealist Studios has changed too, 5 new films and one recent complete website redesign along with on-going improvements to our online film player. Outside of our website we've got all our films on more than YouTube, 16 other video-sharing websites to be precise. On YouTube alone we've had 33,949 video views. On this website we have had 551,809 unique visitors since August 2006. That's over half a million unique visitors in just over 2 years. So once again, thank you for all your support.

Secondly, our latest film Not Now Bernard, which we released earlier this year has performed well and we didn't quite expect it to be so well received.

So, currently we are working on a film that we hope to shoot this December/January time. So you can expect to have the film launched on this website in Febuary. As always, we'll try to keep you update and let you in on some more about the new film. Keep an eye on our Blog (www.blog.surrealiststudios.com)

Find out what our new film is at www.surrealiststudios.com and watch or download it right now!

It is also now available on YouTube - click here to watch

It's been a while since we've posted anything on the website, however we have been hard at work on a new film.

We can confirm that on Friday May 9th 2008 we will release the brand new film on our website and YouTube.

We're not going to give anything away just yet but stay tuned as we will be releasing stills, a short synopsis and the actual title of the film on the run up to the release. All will be posted here and the main website.

Surrealist Studios' latest short psychological thriller has been released today.

You can watch or download the film now at - www.surrealiststudios.com/watchingwaiting

The new look Surrealist Studios website has also been launched today.

Watching and Waiting is finally being released next week. It will premiere on the Surrealist Studios website on Wednesday 21st February at 7pm at the following address - www.surrealiststudios.com/watchingandwaiting

As well as that, we are also launching our new look website on the same day.

If you haven't seen the trailer for Watching and Waiting yet you can see it at www.surrealiststudios.com/watchingandwaiting

Firstly thank you for those who have watched our two new films (Circle Line and Castles in Spain). They have had large amounts of views here on our website and on other video sites. We have received the largest amount of traffic to our website yet!

We would like to announce that we will be releasing another new film called Watching and Waiting on 20th December. The film is near completion. Today we have put the official trailer for the film onto the site you may watch the trailer at
www.surrealiststudios.com/watchingwaiting.

The logo for our new film Circle Line has been posted at www.surrealiststudios.com/circleline

The film will also be premiered this Friday evening on that webpage

I will post the synopsis tommorow

Yes that's right two new films will be released in the next month.

Film number 1 is called Circle Line and will be premiered Friday 1st September 7pm on the Surrealist Studios website. It will be available on YouTube and other video websites one week after.

Film number 2 is called Castles in Spain and will be premiered on 15th September 2006 7pm on the Surrealist Studios website. It will be available on YouTube and most other websites one week after.

Stay tuned in the next week for more information, a synopsis, logo and some stills from the film number 1 all before the big release on 1st September. All of which will be posted on the blog, mailing list and MySpace.

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Subscribe to our podcast and get the film downloaded straight to iTunes or another podcast reader when it is released. Click here

I bet you never could have guessed that.

Its a 4 minute film of fire poi (also known as fire juggling) with Firestarter - The Prodigy as the soundtrack.

We're only showing it on YouTube, watch it right now at -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRjeAsfmDcs

And that's not all, this is the only film we have going at the moment. At the moment we have two films in production, one should be released in August and the other not long after.

Stay tuned!!

Well it's been a while since I last posted but things are gonna start in the next month or so.

We're still confident on shooting a new film this summer. But we'll post more details soon.

Our films have been publised around the web recently, mainly on MySpace and YouTube where we now have our own profiles. Click here to view our MySpace profile. Click here to view our YouTube profile. We are also starting our own Podcast which I'll post more about soon.

Finally our biggest news is that we're completely re-designing the main website. It's been nearly two years now so it's about time.

We post more updates soon