Viva Amiga

Back in 2011, there was a Kickstarter campaign to produce a “a film about the legendary Amiga system”. Today I was able to purchase this film on Vimeo.

Unfortunately I have to say that I am happy that I did not support this film’s campaign back then (because I heard about it too late). It’s not only that this film was delayed again and again. From what I was able to observe as an outsider (as someone who did not back the film) it appears that the communication by the project creator was lacking. As far as I can see, no physical copies of the film are available at this point in time. Backers of the Kickstarter campagin were promised a DVD of the film. And while DVD might have been fine back in 2011 it’s not acceptable to not offer a BluRay in 2017.

The film itself turned out rather short: 62.5 minutes including opening titles and closing titles. The content is not bad but if you have seen “From Bedrooms to Billions: The Amiga Years”, for instance, then there is not much in this film that you have not seen before. I have to say, though, that I enjoyed the focus on artistic usage of the Amiga.