THE GRAND INQUISITOR

THE GRAND INQUISITOR is a five part film updating Dostoevsky’s mystical fable to a future, Fox network style reality. Public Eye Films partnered with Cruxy.com to expand the possibilities for online distribution and to create new user interfaces for hyperlinked entertainment.

User-generated content was incorporated into this piece through the Audition 2 Be Jesus contest held on YouTube and promoted through banner advertisments and articles on the popular webzine Reality Sandwich.



This series was distributed to a wide variety of video hosting services and social networks all with a different angle or niche:

Mininova - BitTorrent HD Download
Blip.tv - Video Podcast in Flash and MPEG-4
iTunes - Video Podcast for iPod
Stage6 - High-Resolution DivX 6
Vimeo - High-Definition Flash Video
YouTube - Low-Resolution Flash Video
MySpace - Social Network Video
DailyMotion - European Social Video
Facebook - Characters as Friends
Revver - Monetization through Advertising

HD Flash Streaming powered by the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

Read the Director's statement on RealitySandwich.com:
As director, it's my attempt to claim a personal perspective on Christianity after being confronted by the powerfully presented, yet soul killing version presented by Mel Gibson inThe Passion of The Christ. The danger of our approach is scaring folks away with the viciousness of the initial satire, before they are able to access the deeper allegory we are trying to present. read more...

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Learn more about the technical concepts behind this film on the People with Ideas blog:
With this piece, we decided that it could work with a more "net native" approach. edited into multiple short episodes (3-5 minutes), unfolding over a few weeks, distributed through multiple online video services.
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You'll see that on each episode, the complete cast of characters is represented below the main video stream as small thumbnails. As the characters appears on the screen, their thumbnail lights up. You can roll over the thumbnails to zoom in on them, and learn a bit more about their role in this tale. read more...