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You are about to purchase the best Marine Corps BootCamp Documentary ever captured. This up close and personal documentary will place you in the barracks without actually being there. If you truly want to know what BootCamp is like, this is a MUST SEE! "The Original Documentary" takes you through 12 weeks of Marine Corps BootCamp training. The new chapters being released will give you an in depth look at each week of BootCamp never before seen.

-12 Weeks of Marine Corps Bootcamp seen like never before! "THE MOVIE" Price: $32.00
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-The First 24 Hours of BootCamp. "EOEC Chapter 1"! Price: $15.00

Ears, Open. Eyeballs, Click. Chapter 2 Coming Soon!

PRESS HIGHLIGHTS to date

The first section of Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket" comes to mind... this nonfiction portrait is an even purer distillation of famously brutal Marine training methods. While chapter intertitles obscurely hint at humor (while referencing the events we're about to see), Brumley otherwise maintains a strictly neutral, nonjudgmental p.o.v. Nonetheless, the wide-format images - by turns formally crisp and hand-held frenetic - as well as his tight editing vividly convey the confusion engendered by extreme discipline, and the intense emotions felt by the young recruits. Audience's can, and no doubt will, read into the picture whatever political agenda they came in with.
- Dennis Harvey, Variety

"...the film distances the audience while simultaneously putting it in the same position as the recruits: not knowing what will happen next. Brumley captures the initial nervousness and anxiety of the trainees as they stumble through the gauntlet of technical instructors ready to verbally rip them apart at every gaffe. The milieu evokes Thomas E. Rick's book "Making the Corps" and the first half of Stanley Kubrick's 1987 film Full Metal Jacket, as the group gradually loses its gawkiness and prepares for war."
-Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times

"Filmed in the squad bays of San Diego and Camp Pendleton, "Ears, Open. Eyeballs, Click." follows Platoon 1141 on its transformation from nasty civilians to locked-and-cocked leaders of Marines. For 95 minutes, Canaan Brumley educates those outside of the Corps on the daily activities of recruit training without adding his own spin. Brumley provides us with a non-narrative documentary that every Marine should see at least once... it reigns supreme...
-Marines Magazine

"More violent than the first part of Full Metal Jacket, this vision of embrigadement, which passes by the constitution of a new hyper-paternalist family...is unforgettable...the director plunges us into the horror which leads to war, with very beautiful ideas of catch of sight...striking."
-Cinema Ecrans, France

"Though the film has been compared with Kubrick's fictional Full Metal Jacket, it is actually more devastating in its impact, not only because it is fact, not fiction, but because its technique, totally without any need to press home its humanistic message, makes us experience some of what its subjects must experience during their 12-week journey through marine boot camp."
- Karl Dallas- Morning Star (U.K.)

"A strident experience sans narration or moral subjectivity, Ears, Open becomes much more powerful and thought-provoking than it initially appears..."
- Kim Morgan, LA Weekly

"The opening tableau of recruits arriving at camp could be the most brilliant single shot of the festival..."
- The Independent Weekly

"Brumley's wide-screen symmetrical shots evoke Stanley Kubrick's grandly cinematic style. [Utilizing] pure observational techniques, the film contains no interviews [and] calls to mind Frederick Wiseman's 1971 documentary 'Basic Training.' That recruits suffer unspeakable cafeteria food and sadistic drill sergeants shouting "Kill, kill, kill!" won't be a surprise to anyone who has watched 'Full Metal Jacket.' But 95 minutes of 'Ears, Open' supplies a visceral experience of the reality of basic training that no other report quite matches."
- Thom Powers, The Boston Globe

"Without introduction, director Canaan Brumley throws us onto a bus load of Marine recruits about to undergo twelve grueling weeks of boot camp. Their mission: to come out as fearless trained killers. In a daring move, Brumley shuns traditional narration, interviews, and central characters, relying solely on the Kubrickian landscape he lenses with abstract precision. The result is an experience that will jump start your own opinions emotions, and prejudices- not just about the military, but about human nature as well. Whether you leave admiring the recruits' mental and physical discipline or questioning them as automatons, Brumley's surreal rendering is guaranteed to rattle your cage."
- Los Angeles Film Festival

"Semper Fi and black 'neath the eyes, this is what little soldiers are made of. Head off to boot camp in big, bold wide-screen and don't piss off your sergeant. Director Canaan Brumley has an unsentimental eye for how we turn mere men into Marines and an artistic commitment to economy, intensity and access."
- Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

AWARDS

FID Marseille - le premiere prix

Lisbon International Documentary Film Festival - Best Debut Film

San Diego Film Festival - San Diego Filmmaker Award 2005

Philadelphia Documentary & Fiction Festival - Best Editing

Festival Du Cinema De Bruxelles - Best Cinematography

HONORS

International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (IDFA)

Hamptons International Film Festival - In Competition

Los Angeles Film Festival (IFP/FIND) - Opening Night Documentary

Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

San Diego Film Festival

Starz Denver International Film Festival

Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival (U.K.)

Belfort International Film Festival (France)

International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (Netherlands)

Tiburon International Film Festival

Mar del Plata International Film Festival (Argentina)

Sarasota Film Festival

Jeu De Paume (Paris)

Moscow International Film Festival

Cologne Conference (Germany)

Pesaro Film Festival (Italy)

Rhode Island International Film Festival

Taiwan International Film Festival

TELEVISION

Documentary Channel on Direct TV

DIRECTORS BIO

Canaan Brumley started directing films while attending high school in Houston and went on to receive his B.S. in film at San Diego State University. During this time he produced, wrote and directed thirteen short films before producing his first feature Ears, Open. Eyeballs, Click. He currently is editing his second feature titled Speakeasy.