Ludovico Technique LLC
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Ludovico Technique LLC is an art and entertainment production company which produces a variety of media, from feature films, to comic books. Their name comes from the Ludovico technique, a fictitious brainwashing technique from both the novel and the film A Clockwork Orange. Robert Meyer Burnett, CEO of Ludovico Technique, both co-wrote and directed the feature film Free Enterprise, which won both the Best Screenplay award and the New Directions award at the American Film Institute's 1998 AFI Fest.
[edit] DVD special edition work
Ludovico staff work on-set during the production of a feature film, "sticking cameras in the face of each and every crew member, then expecting them to talk" (quote from the Ludovico website). Working to develop a rapport with the film crew, while providing for its own personnel, equipment, housing, transportation, and on-location post-production facilities, Ludovico provides audio and video content for various studio divisions, such as Marketing and Brand Management.
Their DVD productions include the Columbia/Tri-Star DVD of The Usual Suspects and the UK edition (Winner: 2002 Cannes Film Festival Permanent DVD Collection); The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe DVD; the X-Men 2 DVD (nominated by the DVD Exclusives Academy for 2004 DVD Special Edition of the Year); The Two Towers 4-disc set (winner: 2004 DVD Special Edition of the Year); and the Tron 20th Anniversary Edition, nominated for both the 2003 DVD Exclusives Awards and Best Retrospective Documentary (for "The Making of Tron").
Ludovico Technique created the three-hour documentary Requiem for Kryptonfor the Superman Returns Special Edition DVD.
[edit] Comics
The company also produce comic books and the range so far includes Living in Infamy by Ben Raab and The Red Line.
[edit] External links
- Official homepage
- Talking Infamy: The Big Honkin' Roundtable Interview Adam White of Comiccritique.com interviews Ludovico Technique staff members Ben Raab, Deric Hughes, Greg Kirkpatrick, Ashley Miller and Robert Meyer Burnett