A live film made inside a moving car — devised in real-time, cut live, and broadcast weekly on Twitch. Two iPhones. One director on vMix. No script. No safety net. Total budget: under $200.
Chuck a U-Ey is a Live Cinema experiment in reduction. Strip the form down to its irreducible minimum and find out what remains. No broadcast trucks. No bonded cellular rigs. No camera crew. Just a driver, a car, two phones mounted to the dashboard, and a director watching the feed from a laptop and calling cuts.
S.C. Wilson drives. Michael Beets directs from vMix. The Twitch stream is the edit suite, the screening room, and the audience experience simultaneously. Each weekly session is a rehearsal — an act of discovery about what Live Cinema looks like when the constraint is absolute and the tools are consumer-grade.
"The question isn't what equipment makes Live Cinema possible. The question is what Live Cinema looks like when you remove every reason to delay making it."
— Michael Beets, Creative DirectorThe format evolves week by week. Two cameras to start — one on the windscreen, one on the driver — cutting between them as the car moves through the city. As the project develops, more iPhones enter the rig. More angles. More editorial possibility. But the principle holds: everything is live, everything is real, nothing was captured before the session began.
Twitch is not incidental to this project — it is the exhibition context. The audience watching the stream sees the film being made. The chat becomes part of the room. The platform's live-or-nothing infrastructure is philosophically aligned with the form itself.
The full intellectual framework behind Chuck a U-Ey — its relationship to the Live Cinema Dogma, and the ongoing field notes from each rehearsal session — is documented by Creative Director Michael Beets on his personal site.