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We are a group of film and video students (and one Cognitive Sciences student) studying in Bezalel graduate school of arts, Jerusalem, Israel. We all share a deep fondness for cinema, tv and indie moviemaking, and have experience both from school and life in making short films.
For us, Jack Hammer is more than just a web series. As Willie Trumbon well puts it in The Neverhood, we are beings who have to create, because… We have to. We all love cinema very much, and participating, creating something which is ours, which we can think about and solve and brainstorm and build in our own image might be the epitome of such love.
This reason can also be shown in the themes of the show: all of today's film culture is based on nostalgia and fondness for what was once and can't stay buried. The theme of reality show vs. classic 80's action movies symbolize this situation, as today's cinema usually isn't creating anything new, only reviving the old (as in the classics) or reinventing itself frantically every day (as in the reality shows) until all meaning is striped.
We miss the olden days of heroes, villains, self-building and realistic character arcs, and wish to show them on screen again, confront them with today's insane marathon of short attention span and spiral of heroes-for-one-day, and see how we can create something new by combining the old and the present.
