Archive for February, 2006
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This photo spread from the Jazz Christmas / Fun’s Over premiere party is courtesy of Lily W. and Alexis S.:
Good looking people had fun:
The line to get to the theater space:
Jazz Christmas stars Tim Bean (left) and brooding method actor Brian Mahon (right):
Alexis S. poses with Chris Brown (left) and The Forty Year Old Virgin (right):
Thanks everyone for coming. It was a blast.
Ball Deep
In gratitude for the disproportionate hours of sleep (and probably years of life) Whitney lost getting Jazz Christmas ready for last weekend’s premiere, Lev’s written her a poem. It’s loosely based on the “Because you took…” poem from Lolita.
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Jazzy Jazz
This week, while Whitney paints animations for Jazz Christmas, Lev edits the sound.
In this cut from the Jazz Christmas Studio Sessions, actors John A. and Philip C. play Thermon Thermone (pictured above) playing Lightning Bolt’s “Ride the Sky.” (MP3)
Here’s the lyrics — sing along!
JAZZ!
jazz christmas!
JAZZ!
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JAZZ!
jazz christmas!
JAZZ!
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Fun’s Over
A gonorrhea romance set in a fantastic future.
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Fun’s Over. 2006.
5 minutes.
Black and White (16mm)
Cast:
Marianna McClellan as Winona
J. Coogan Martin as Addison
John Atkinson as Dr. Wolf-Bongo
Lev Kalman as Sammy Davis
Jon Schneider as Junior
Prescott Horn as Gorfax
Terry Horn as Salvador
Alexis Stephens as Chantel
2 new movies premiere! Big Deal!
You are very invited to see Fun’s Over and Jazz Christmas premiere at the Lev Kalman Art & Performance Gallery on Saturday, Feb. 25. Refreshments will include wine and forty (40) dollars worth of Haribo candies.
Fun’s Over screens at 11:00pm and Jazz Christmas at midnight — sharp. Please arrive no later than 10:30. Suggested donation is $2,340.
Jazz Christmas
Lev and Whitney’s 1920s epic Jazz Christmas premieres February 25th!
It has a sexy trailer.
Cast:
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John Atkinson Tim Bean Philip Contos Andre Frechette III Darin Guerrasio Brian Hamilton Lev Kalman Melissa Levin Brian Mahon Ebony Nicholas Christina Norris Travis Nutting Safiyyah Okoye Alexis Stephens |
as Leonard Weisz as Man of the Year 1928 as Lightning McGee as F. Scott Fitzgerald as Stanley as Major DeWitt as Morris as Pearlie Weisz as Thermon Thermone as Fanny as Zelma as Monte as Conseula DeSoto as America (Rico) |
BEHIND THE SCENES:
Public intellectual John Effing Atkinson gives an insider’s point of view on the ‘making of’ Jazz Christmas here, here and Xpecially here.
Press-tigers
The new issue of Future Incite, the webzine of “genre video making for the advanced hobbyist” has an article about L & W’s “genre” movies, Fun’s Over and Blood Stew. The article includes an MP3 interview between L & W and the zine’s editor Sundiata Cowels. Whitney is on point and Lev is hilarious.
W: We like knives. We like tennis racquets. They go well together.L: We want our movies to look like art […] In these days when a lot of digital movies are moving towards blurring the line between reality TV and fictional–y’know: Is it a documentary? Is it a mockumentary? We’re not interested in pursuing any of those questions. […] People still think that [our movies] are improvised or that they’re documentary-style or something. They’re none of that. They’re highly staged. But if we were shooting digital, people would think that all the time. [Shooting 16mm] is kinda a way of influencing the way the movies are read.
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