The message, broadcast for four and a half minutes, was seen by the eastern half of the United States (accounting for more than half of HBO's 14.6 million subscribers at the time) protesting HBO's rates for satellite dish owners, which he considered too expensive. MacDougall (using the pseudonym " Captain Midnight") jammed the Home Box Office (HBO) satellite signal on Galaxy 1 during a showing of the film The Falcon and the Snowman. On April 27, 1986, American electrical engineer and business owner John R. Resulted in the development of the Automatic Transmitter Identification System To protest against charges for access to scrambled satellite channels … I’d be watching cable television and then one of the commercials I’d made almost felt like a broadcast intrusion because it was so much different from whatever I was watching.Message seen in 1986, as superimposed on the SMPTE color bars I spent a lot of time in dark rooms, very similar to the one in the movie, with stacks of videotapes, just diving through them. You do them for local businesses, and it was one of those things that write, shoot, and edit by yourself.
“ is a guy just logging videotapes in an archive, and one of my first jobs was making local commercials when I was right out of college. … It’s the old filmmaking axiom that it’s Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfus reacting to the shark as much as it is the shark. That was probably a subconscious influence to always concentrate on Harry’s reactions to things being almost as valuable as the things themselves. You have the lens flare from the projector sitting next to him and you have the sound of the clickity-clickity of the spooling film, and his reaction to it, the look on his face, is more horrifying than anything they can show you. “ there’s something profoundly affecting the first time Nic Cage is watching the snuff film. And I think a lot of people can relate to that? How many people have gone down a YouTube wormhole? You get lost down the rabbit hole of entertaining yourself and educating yourself about something you didn’t know about, but it also has darker implications, as evidenced by some of the more political movements that have come from these rabbit holes.”
A person becoming interested in a mystery is always going to be interesting to me, because I can always relate. He then starts to find connections to his own life, and past trauma that he feels he can find answers to by solving these mysteries. The film is set in the late Nineties, and the main character is researching just because he was curious, and he became more and more obsessed. I love researching things I didn’t know about or knew a little bit about and diving deep into them. “Research is my favorite part of making movies. “That’s the most famous of them, because that’s unsolved, and any unsolved mystery of any type is always the most talked-about and discussed and debated and researched, just because it’s fascinating that something like that can go unsolved for so long, and it speaks to the level of sophistication of the equipment and everything they used to perform act of video piracy that they did.” When I started working with them on the movie, I wanted to graft even more of the real-life events onto the story, to give it the feeling of a real unsolved mystery. Their idea was more broadcast signals in general, and they’re UK writers, so they were coming from that perspective.
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The idea for the movie came from the script from Phil Drinkwater and Tim Woodall, and I found that really fascinating because I’m very interested in unsolved mysteries. “I’d heard of them as legends of nascent hyperculture, like the Run-DMC of anonymous. In the period techno-horror, video archivist and camera expert James (Harry Shum Jr.) becomes intrigued, fascinated, and finally obsessed with two of these bizarre transmissions and his belief that they are connected to a trauma that has haunted him.īefore the world debut, we chatted with Gentry about what drew him to this topic, and the films that influenced him in creating this tale of cable access madness.
Their enduring mystery powers Broadcast Signal Intrusion, the SXSW Midnighter directed by Jacob Gentry.
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in Broadcast Signal Intrusion, one of this year’s SXSW Midnighters (Image courtesy of Queensbury Pictures)īefore there was hacking, there were broadcast signal intrusions: strange incidents where people would hijack TV signals and insert strange clips or weird rantings.
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