New Playing Card and Magic Documentary! Lost In the Shuffle

Hello, welcome to Real Magic View. Oh, look, look down there, wasn't I? Shouldn't, shouldn't look at the camera, should look at, shouldn't look at the screen. Should look at the screen before I look at the camera. That's what I'm gonna say. Hello, welcome to Real Magic View. My name is Steve Faulkner, and a bit of a last minute thing. I like these last minute live ones because it gets me adrenaline running a bit. It's a bit like performing, it's great. I hope you're well. Thanks for the few people here. Let me put the comments on. There they are. Oh, Magic Stephens, how you doing? Nice to see you. So, before we do this, can you please like and subscribe? Check out cardmagiccourse.com and actually do all those things. Do it. After this, go to cardmagiccourse.com, have a look at it. Last night, all the way from Mexico, we had Phonique as a guest performer. And whatever membership you get, you still get to watch that as a guest lecturer. And it was just, it was incredible. If you've not seen Phonique's Air Aces, and he did his Apex Aces as well, which is an incredible ace control, like a switch, but his Air Aces is just brilliant. And just off the cuff, just him doing it in real time was just a joy to see, learning it. And everybody was very impressed and it was very exciting. So check out that. Hey Tom, how you doing? Nice to see you. So the reason I'm doing this last minute, so I got an email about a film, about playing cards. Hey Steve. And what could be, I mean, come on, I'm a film buff. I love feature length documentaries, absolutely love feature length documentaries. So when I hear there's a feature length documentary coming out about playing, I mean, come on, a magic, this is brilliant, isn't it? Now, the reason I'm doing this quickly, because it's a Kickstarter campaign and the film is being made apparently, but they've got stretch goals, which we'll talk about in a minute. But just a little, this is the, and I'm sure you won't, this is John Ornoy, I think, or Orn, I think that's how you pronounce it. Canadian filmmaker in collaboration with two-time world champion, Sean Farquhar. You would have seen Sean's stuff on Follows. If you haven't, give it a Google, his stuff's amazing. And this movie is featuring some of the top sleight of hand artists in the world. It's currently in development, a feature length documentary on the long history between playing cards and magic called Lost in the Shuffle. Now, before we, I'll show you the trailer on here, if I've set it up right, and it all works. Let me know if it doesn't. And you can just watch it on here, but what I'd like to do now, if you haven't got the patience to watch everything, is do check out the website. Now, I've put it in the links below, because the Kickstarter website is here. Let me do a screen share. I always get so nervous doing screen shares. I don't want to get anything embarrassing there. Not that I would have. There you go. So there's the Kickstarter, and there is a link to that, which is lostintheshufflefilm.com, lostintheshufflefilm.com, and you'll get to that Kickstarter page. And this is kind of where they are. So 39,000, so it looks like the film's gonna get made, but then the stretch goals seem to be, and isn't it, I love Kickstarter. It's just great, isn't it? Let me just get to the right bit. Yeah, so all these have been, so they've got loads of support, which is amazing, because obviously every magician wants this film to be made, and then it kind of looks like the extra budget's clearly going straight into the film from enhanced animation sequences and more stretch goals. And I think it's really important that we share these kind of projects, just because of the risk and the time, and they've spent a couple of years doing this already. The trailer you'll see looks great. I mean, it's really top quality. And I think that, you know, I always worry when I get told about kind of documentaries on magic. Oh God, some could go either way, couldn't it? And this looks brilliant. And Tom is a backer. That's a great idea that involves an amazing range of performers. Yay, nice. So listen, we'll watch the trailer. I won't say much when we watch the trailer. You can just watch it and enjoy. And let me know if you can't hear it. I've known no other world than magic. From a young age, all I experienced was magic. Going to school, I saw magic in everything. I can't imagine not being a magician. The workshop is where I basically design and create new ideas. And so I've got table saws and skill saws, band saws. I got a laser back here. That's my joy. This is where I thrive. Chateau Farquhar. I want a Chateau Stevie Fulton. I think magicians are drawn to playing cards because they're easily accessible. It's the gateway trick to magic. Secondly, the audience accepts it because it's a regular household item that just about everybody has. And what's great about magic and cards together is that it elicits an emotion. Like you think of Las Vegas when you see a deck of cards. Or maybe you think of a smoky back room where there's a sheet like the Maverick ripping you off. Or the Sting, where there's an entire con going on. It's been going on forever. Magic and playing cards have this huge relationship. And it's like the universal tool of magic. Now as a magician, I don't usually look at playing cards. I'm surrounded by them, but I use them as a tool. I don't look at the designs. And now I realize those designs can be inspirational and creative. On a recent tour of France, I took a day's vacation. I went sightseeing to a medieval castle called Chateau-en-Bois. And there I saw a symbol that was so familiar but I couldn't put my finger on it. And then I realized I'd seen it thousands of times. It appears in the King of Hearts. You see, experts will tell you that the cards are named after famous people like King David, Alexander the Great, and Julius Caesar, and that the King of Hearts is Charlemagne. But what if those experts have it wrong? What if there's a connection between Chateau-en-Bois and the king with the sword running through his head? And what if that connects us to Charles VIII, a king who mysteriously died at the chateau 500 years ago? I need to return to France. I need to learn more about the history of a deck of cards and the designs and where they came from. Because I think hidden in that deck of cards are clues to a 500-year-old cold case murder. So there you go. It looks great, doesn't it? So what I like is obviously it's shot really beautifully. It's made by John Tink, who's clearly a filmmaker that knows his stuff. There's an extended thing. If you go to the Kickstarter project, as I said, lostintheshufflefilm.com, you'll see a longer kind of mini thing about what they're making and how they're making it. And it just looks great. And I think if this documentary breaks through and it does the festivals and things like that, then it will do really good things for us as card magicians. And well, magicians as well. Because what it isn't is it isn't cheesy. And as adoring of magic as I am, I still think some of it has to move forward and we have to get rid of that cheesiness. It just looks like a really tight documentary. So I really wanted to share this. Obviously, they've got time constraints. So they want to reach these stretch goals within a certain amount of time. So do check out the site, lostintheshufflefilm.com. And again, I'm not affiliated. And I can't put a lot of money into it. I haven't got a lot of money to give. So if I can help in this way, it'd be great. And do share it on social media. It's a great thing to share. It's not like when I say share this on social media because a lot of people aren't gonna be interested. But I think this is a good one to share. And Stefan says that looks more interesting than expected. Still waiting for, looking for Erdnay's movie. Although I didn't back it because I was too late. Yeah, I don't know about that. And it looked really, really interesting as well. And it looked like that would be well-made as well. But do like, there's only two of you liked it, liked the video, because there's not many of us here because I've not advertised this. So any questions you've got now, let me know. Or I will do some random live videos. So if you see me pop up, do make sure you've subscribed and you've hit the notification icon so you get notifications when I go live. But other than that, have a great one. I might pop up again in a bit or not. But whatever you're doing, have a wonderful weekend. Thanks, everybody. And remember, check out, as well as going to lostintheshufflefilm.com, do check out cardmagiccourse.com, which is, that's the thing that runs the whole thing. So if you like this, you'll love that. And there's some really exciting stuff coming up in the new year with that as well. Take care. See you later. Bye.