- The Conventional (2005)
- aka Journey of The Fencing Society (2022)
- By Justin A. Evangelista
- In 2000, I started making a documentary with the help of my father Nick.
- It was a really basic project about Fencing/Swordplay, to show at MSU (SMSU) student fairs.
- I was a fencer at The SMSU Fencing Society, from back in the early days to late 2008.
- In 2009, I officially had a name for my fencing school; Endurance Studios.
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- It was going to be a grand EPIC TWO HOURS. And ... that is when I ran into some trouble, as I was edited
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on Windows Movie Maker, and I do not think was made to do that, or maybe it was my files, anyway, it kept randomly crashing. And it was fate stepping in with a random transfer to VHS in late 2004, that finally got it finished. ----------------------------------- It shows students fencing, and has narration by Maestro Ralph Faulkner. Ralph Faulkner (aka Boss), was the "Fencing Master to the Stars". He worked with actors and choreographed the fencing sequences for such films as; The Court Jester (1955), The Sea Hawk (1940), The Three Musketeers (1935), The Prisoner of Zenda (1937). --
-----------------------------------Since 2020, Endurance Studios is closed. However, I decided to keep the school going by taking the old Fencing Society footage and making it into short films, to educated people about fencing and swordplay.
-----------------------------------The last video I tried to upload in 2023 (alas, wouldn't work), is about the LEGEND about my father's eye. For many years people have asked if it were a duel over my mother, or some sort of fencing blade accident. And...well...no. --
-----------------------------------My father (since birth) has what is called Ptosis. Where basically, the upper eyelid droops a bit. --
-----------------------------------One of my favorite actors, Forest Whitaker, also has Ptosis. And oddly enough, his first name is Fathers Middle name. And that is pretty much where the amazing coincidence ends. ----------------------------------- These videos were posted to social media in 2022.
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