Michigan Filmmaker David Meiklejohn Using Internet as Director For Documentary

We recently learned about filmmakers David Meiklejohn and Davy Rothbart and their project “My Heart is an Idiot”. It’s a documentary in progress that’s partially using the Internet as its director.

Meiklejohn, who’s actually directing, is publishing video chunks weekly at the film’s Web site for feedback, criticism and the submission of “great ideas we can steal and make millions from,” he jests.

The film’s Web site is here. The film’s MySpace is here. I have embedded the first video chunk below.


“My Heart is an Idiot” is about love through the lens of a 32-year-old man who doesn’t know what he wants in a relationship. The filmmakers hope the experience will help viewers learn to “love better”.

The film is currently in post-production, which means Meiklejohn “spends more time in front of a computer than out in sunlight with normal people”.

He’s soliciting the online community because he says “working for 12 hours a day in a basement by myself gets … a little … lonely. Just kidding. Mostly.” He edits from his home basement in Ann Arbor, Mich.