{"id":142,"date":"2007-04-04T23:27:23","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T23:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/film\/?p=142"},"modified":"2026-04-05T21:10:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:10:42","slug":"my-very-special-first-ever-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/film\/my-very-special-first-ever-film\/","title":{"rendered":"My Very Special First Ever Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-container\">\n  <iframe \n    src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DUrCUHViPNQ?si=QSYSN1milmWBONlK\"\n    title=\"YouTube video player\"\n    frameborder=\"0\"\n    allowfullscreen><br \/>\n  <\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>The good early days when Caitlin was still around at Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>For a production 1 class, I made this to parody the usual stereotypes of &#8220;first films&#8221; that freshman make. A huge number of them involved homeless people, break-ups, and dramatic death scenes. So I thought, why not make my film about a guy directing his film about all those things?<\/p>\n<p>I had to find someone else with a Bolex rented out so I could shoot someone with a Bolex, on my Bolex. I also gave him my most ostentatious shirt, and some gloves and a beret, to complete the auteur look. I had fun with this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good early days when Caitlin was still around at Columbia. For a production 1 class, I made this to parody the usual stereotypes of &#8220;first films&#8221; that freshman make. A huge number of them involved homeless people, break-ups, and dramatic death scenes. So I thought, why not make my film about a guy directing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}