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You are viewing the most recent 20 entries October 23rd, 200903:28 pm: Gonzoriffic Peep Show: Part 3
The day I completed the finished DVD we’d be running at Ciné (that included the color-corrected version of “Fox Holes” I’d completed only 24 hours earlier), I got a call telling me a friend I’d worked closely with for 11 years had passed away. It was heavy. Even though he’d been sick for 4 months and I hadn’t seen him, the timing was incredible. My work schedule had been shifted from nights to days that week, the photography exhibit was gonna have to be constructed by us, and we needed to clean our house to have the space for company that was arriving Friday morning. To have a funeral in the middle of it all was truly a humbling thing. It took every available ounce of my sanity to get through those last few days. He was buried that Wednesday afternoon under an appropriately grey and rainy sky. The next morning, I got up and worked my 8 hours and went straight over to the theater after. Diver met me armed with all the supplies we’d need to create a mobile photography exhibit that mimicked the style of an actual peep show. Fishing line, nails, scissors, a tape measure, and curtains made from the actual fabric from “The Erotic Couch” (which you all touched if you went inside the gallery). Keep in mind, this is the night before the show. We spent a total of five hours, completely skipping dinner, organizing and hanging those 16 pieces on those little walls. It was intense. Yet we still managed to have fun and drag ourselves over to Clocked to get something to eat before it closed. I was home by 11:30pm to vacuum, get the sleeping arrangements in order and wait for my out-of-town guests to arrive. ( Click here for more of part 3 )
October 22nd, 200903:26 pm: Gonzoriffic Peep Show: Part 2
The next couple of months were nothing less than a whirlwind of creative endeavors. I helped my friend Dayna shoot her first film, a zombie short that was supposed to look like a 1950s educational film. I enjoyed the freedom of having only two jobs (lighting and camera) as opposed to the just about everything I was used to doing on the Gonzo stuff, and I noticed how much better my work looked as a result. So when Monica proposed we try and make one more film of our own in time for the upcoming show at Ciné, I told her I wanted her to write and direct it. The reasons I gave her had mostly to do with how busy I still was finishing up “Couch” and working on the gallery for the show, but inside I was ridiculously excited about seeing her calling the shots. We’d worked together for so long with the same dynamic, and I looked forward to how such a thing would intensify her involvement. She said yes, and got started. Next thing I knew, we had a script and a cast. It was really gonna happen. To work alongside two visionary female directors in the span of a couple months did my feminist heart a lot of good. ( Click here for more of part 2 ) (Drawn on the back of my right calf immediately before the first shot of "Fox Holes" by the film's director. Someone told me the next day they liked my tattoo.)
October 21st, 200903:23 pm: Gonzoriffic Peep Show: Part 1
I don't know where to begin. A year ago sounds appropriate. Ok, let's do that. Our previous midnight movie show, "Bride Of Gonzoriffic", occurred the weekend of October 17th and 18th, 2008. I remember working at breakneck speed to complete “I’m In The Basement” in time for the show, and it ended up being the audience favorite. About a month from idea to screen. A record for us. It was an amazing couple of nights that saw an increase in attendance from our previous screenings and made me feel like we’d finally created an event that people would remember for a long time. A guy could get used to feeling so accomplished, so accepted. Most of all, I got to see my friends treated like the movie stars they are. The months that followed the high we experienced were disappointingly slow. Holidays came and went. Ideas were tossed around but never solidified. Summer time came and the only things Gonzoriffic had produced in the eight months since the show were a couple of online clips that amounted to less than 5 minutes total running time. Not nearly enough to justify another midnight screening at Athens Ciné. Surrounding myself with research material and months worth of notes, I started to write another feature film. A film that, in the back of my mind, I knew would likely never get made. Things always go in cycles. Feast or famine. This was the latter. Two things changed it all. ( Click here for more of part 1 ) (Photo by Monica Puller)
October 5th, 200912:47 pm: Buried Alive Film Fest + Gonzoriffic show
This past Saturday night, I went to Atlanta's historic Plaza Theater for the Buried Alive Horror Film Festival to participate in the filmmaker Q&A part of the show ("Blood Witch" and "Slay Ride" both played as part of the festival program). Our stuff has played this festival a few times over the years, but this was the first time so many of the people involved with making the local stuff were on hand to formally discuss their work with the audience afterward. Not only were all the shorts good, but the filmmakers were really nice people who actively wanted to talk with one another and not just about their own shit. One of the movies was made by guys who work at Adult Swim (I still haven't taken up Jay Edwards on his offer to give me a tour over at Williams Street), and they seemed truly interested in Gonzoriffic (I should have told them about my ideal job, which is doing cartoon voices!). The guy who did the awesome digital FX on one of the other films made a point to come up to me and offer his services for free, should I require any. It was a great experience. I wish some of the cast had been able to go, as audiences tend to prefer asking questions to the performers (or just seeing "movie stars"), but I'm just happy to have been invited at all. Atlanta is my home town and is where my dream of making movies first began, so it always means something to me to have my stuff shown to audiences there. So right now the big thing is our upcoming show at Athens Ciné. This will be our third set of midnight screenings, and the first time I've ever tried doing an exhibit of my photography. I selected all the prints last night, and I'm proud of how they look. Just nervous about it because it's not as easy as just hanging them on a wall in a room. The gallery will be in Ciné's "lab" area, a huge space that can be arranged to accommodate pretty much any kind of performance or event. I have to make adequate use of it. Monica's film "Fox Holes" is also going to premiere at the show (which is now less than 2 weeks away), and we're going to complete shooting tonight. So far, the movie runs about 24 minutes, which is cool because "Erotic Couch" is like 40, which is longer than I'd anticipated. Should work out fine. My plan is to finalize sound fx and music and have the final cut (or at least the cut for the premiere) done by this coming Sunday. I'll author the DVD for the show and deliver it to the theater Monday to have the projectionist check it out. Can't forget to send out the press release this week and to book a slot to promote on the college radio station. Done all of this before a few times, but it never gets any less stressful having to remember everything. Here's the flier Rachael designed for the show:  And here's how the theater marquee poster looks:  To say I'm excited wouldn't even begin to describe how I feel. I've had a larger outpouring of interest and support for this event than any other in Gonzoriffic history, and I attribute that 100% to the fact that I maintain relationships with these people throughout the year regardless of whether I even know we're doing another show or not. I'm real and I appreciate you. And I know just saying it isn't enough. So the love I've received in kind, the help Gonzoriffic is getting, is a reward for not being a self-absorbed prick the rest of the time. I want to share this with them, and I hope they have a great time.
September 21st, 200911:16 am: "Fox Holes", written and directed by Monica Puller
 Arrived at Monica's house around 11am Saturday, and we finished shooting sometime around 5am Sunday. For several reasons, I told her I thought our next movie should be something she wrote, and I wanted her to produce and direct as well. She did it. My hope is that she enjoyed the experience enough to want to do it again. The idea of her directing our movies from now on really appeals to me. Though the film is radically different in approach, theme and general tone, the set of "Fox Holes" felt a lot like the set of "Kill The Movie", one of our earliest that we shot way back in March 2003. Blood, action, large cast, and a seemingly endless flow of electricity between Monica and I. By the time this one is completed (hoping to screen it on 10-16 at our show), both our personal CHECK ENGINE lights will have been on for months. But the alternative, always wondering how awesome it might've been if we'd actually just gone for it, is depressing to even imagine. Something clicked after we returned from our last trip together in early summer. It's been good.
August 31st, 200905:37 pm: zombie weekend
I spent the weekend running camera, sound and lights for SAFETY FIRST, a mock 1950s educational film about communist zombie invaders. The only time I ever work on other peoples' movies (because I'm ALWAYS wrapped up in our own stuff) is when it's something very special, usually a close friend. In this case, the director was Zomberella, formerly of the Athens and Atlanta roller derby, and I promised her four years ago I'd shoot the project if she ever decided to jump into production. She did, finally, this month and she was awesome at it. I personally would never have had the guts to undertake something like this, and she got it all done in two very short days. Costumes, makeup, scenes full of people, extensive dialog, props, child actors, fx, it was all there. Here we are (I'm in green, she has pink hair): 
August 20th, 200908:43 pm: Things I learned from making a sex movie about a sofa bed
Currently staying up till 5 or 6am each day (after coming home from work) editing THE EROTIC COUCH in time for the midnight theatrical premiere on October 16-17 (DVDs will ship the same day for those of you who can't make it out). What started out as just a joke turned into one of the most time-consuming projects I have undertaken since we did our feature-length back in 2007. Never before have I written a film, shot it completely, then gone back to re-write and re-shoot the ending. I have been steadily adding more to the movie since the initial weekend we filmed, including a topless dance sequence that accompanies the opening titles. I've had a lot of interesting experiences making this movie. While I'm no stranger to photographing people without their clothes on, this is the first movie I've made to feature this much bare flesh, and to center completely around sex. That said, it's not a porn, it's not even soft porn. And the way everyone was shot, no explicit nudity is shown. My feeling was and has always been, at least in terms of the movies I make with my friends, once you show someone's junk then it's all over. You can't go back from that. The mystery is gone. I remember over a decade ago when Craig Hosoda's "The Bare Facts Video Guide" came out, I was fascinated by it until I actually started seeing the nude scenes cataloged in the book. It was always anti-climatic, and it had nothing to do with what their bodies looked like without clothes. You can show someone almost naked a million times and it's always going to be thrilling, but once you reveal all, there is a tangible loss. Not everyone feels this way, that's cool with me, but we're talking about the movies I make here. And this is how it's going to be played. What I enjoyed most about making this film was how easily and comfortably I directed and photographed scenes where the women interact with the Erotic Couch and each other. I grew up with cable TV, and we were definitely going for an old school sex movie vibe with this one, so I quickly realized all those years of watching cheesy T&A comedies paid off. That's not to say this is the kind of film we made either; I took all the sex scenes very seriously, and made sure everyone looked as good as they would if I were shooting still photos of them. But there's so much non-verbal to this thing, it really was a change for me. The ten-page script yielded a movie that's nearly 40 minutes long. That means there's a lot of ACTION, man. I'm proud of how it came out, and I think everyone else will too. Some truly incredible things have happened as a result of this project. I'm not talking about getting banned from Facebook or figuring out how to make 3-D (see embedded clip below). There are a small handful of first-time actors in this movie, and a couple of them were people I had only been friends with for a couple of weeks when we started shooting. I take a great amount of care in how images of women are portrayed in the stuff Gonzoriffic produces, and that went double for this project because these women were going to be either half or completely naked in front of my camera. So when not one but two of them told me that working on this project and seeing the footage actually improved their self-image, I thought I might cry. I want art to have power, I don't want to do shit that means nothing. Just as I want the characters in a story to be transformed from who they were at the beginning, I would also like those involved to undergo some kind of change (hopefully for the better). No one here is going on a diet to appear thinner on screen, no one is denied a role based on how they look. If I had to name one thing I want to do with my creativity, it is destroy that type of bullshit, or at least be the exception to it. I had so much fun making this movie. People think Gonzoriffic is just a low budget horror outfit, but I have always known us to be much more than that. Not a single horror film will be shown at our next midnight event. We've made a variety of movies and I want it to reflect our other areas of expertise, particularly our sex-themed work. Along with the premiere of EROTIC COUCH, the show will feature a gallery of my photography that has never been seen anywhere (and will never be available online or for purchase). I look forward to how it will feel to watch people react to this stuff who think they know me, who think they know us. But mostly I look forward to what kind of things we feel free to dream up next as a result of how successful we were at pulling off this sort of movie. To the future. Tags: body image, diy, feminism, film making, gonzoriffic, no budget, underground film, upholstery
July 28th, 200905:43 pm: Banned from Facebook? It's true.
No one goes to MySpace anymore. Problem with that is, I still make movies and I still want to share that with my friends. What to do? Start posting about them on Facebook. Worked out fine earlier this year with the trailer for I'M IN THE BASEMENT, but hit a snag when I uploaded the trailer for THE EROTIC COUCH a couple weeks ago. Within minutes, it was taken down. So, rather than upload it again, I just posted YouTube links and that was that. People put up YouTube links to violent horror films and news footage all the time, and nothing happens.But it seems Facebook isn't as permissive when it comes to the titty. Despite the fact that our trailer only contains two curse words and absolutely no nudity, my account was disabled outright a few days later. My best guess is that, like MySpace, there is too much activity on the site for Facebook to run around being the police. Someone on my friends list reported my movie as offensive and it resulted in me being gone from the site entirely (every comment I ever made has vanished, it's like I never existed there). Hannah Neurotica of AX WOUND ZINE took it upon herself to start a campaign to have me re-instated. People have told me just to start a new one, but I would be losing a couple years' worth of journals and several photo galleries it took me hours to post. There are things I posted that I will be gone forever if they don't let me back in. That's the part that bothers me the most. Help me get all my shit back!Click the above link to support me if you're a member of Facebook. I'm hoping they will just re-activate me and I can get back to enjoying boobs with the rest of you. If you'd like to see the trailer that got me in trouble, click here. I used to look at that 142 friends count and think, I don't even like 142 people. I should have followed my instinct there. If and when I get back, house cleaning. If they never commented on or clicked "Like" for my movie stuff (and I remember everyone that did), they're out of the Andrew clubhouse.
July 23rd, 200911:39 pm: Update from the couch
No sure exactly to what I should attribute the huge response our trailer for "The Erotic Couch" is getting. Part of me says it has to do with the Facebook/Twitter times we live in where everyone seeks instant and constant stimulation. Another part of me thinks it's because this is very different from anything else we have ever made. And then there's the part of me that has no problem facing facts: the trailer is full of boobies. The number of views on Youtube surpassed that of last year's horror comedy release, "I'm In The Basement" within 24 hours. I know several no-budget filmmakers read this journal, so please pay attention when I say this: horror comedy is dead. There are too many out there, most of them are piss poor, no one is buying them and no one wants to invest money to produce them. For right now, it's over. To be honest, not only am I disinterested in doing a horror comedy in the foreseeable future, but I don't really want to do a horror movie either. Making "Couch" was a blast, and continues to be. I've added more scenes to it because it's been so much fun to make! That's never happened before on any movie I have ever done. Twice now, friends have come to me and said they want to be in the movie, and I have come up with ways to make that happen. Yesterday, I received what may well be one of the highest compliments ever. One of them said, "this has done wonders for my self-esteem."Some may wonder why a feminist filmmaker would ever take on such a project, let alone revel in the kind of attention it's getting. The end of that last paragraph should say it all. "Erotic Couch" contains realistic-looking women of varied shapes and sizes portrayed in a glamorous, sexy and positive way. It has bonded the crew even further and given us one incredibly fun experience after another. Seeing everyone so happy and creatively satisfied (this film also has been more of a group collaboration than any we've done since 2007's "Fake Blood") means we are doing exactly what we ought to be.
July 18th, 200909:46 pm: Erotic Couch trailer
Not safe for work. Contains naughty language, tons of cleavage and one sexy-ass couch. People have asked me who are the new faces in there with the Gonzo regulars. The first woman is Diver Velour, who jumped at the chance to be in a movie after a mutual friend introduced her to Gonzoriffic. As far as first-time roles go, she had one of the most difficult I've ever written. Once you see the movie (DVDs should be available by late September) you'll understand. The second is Holly Ween, someone I've been friends with since 1992 and has adamantly supported each of my creative ventures. I wrote a role for her back in 9th grade but never made the movie because I joined a band, so almost 20 years later I finally cast her in something. Russ Meyer fans will appreciate the angles I shot her from. Not sure if I'm going to make the actual movie as grungy-looking as that trailer. I was heavily inspired by old school "adult" pictures when we made "Erotic Couch", so I would like it to resemble one in some way. I may actually be one of the few DIY filmmakers purposely taking high definition footage and making it low definition.
July 13th, 200910:30 pm: What is "The Erotic Couch"?
It goes like this: One of the things Monica and I did on our last field trip was pay a visit to Alternative Cinema studios in Butler, NJ at the request of head cheese Mike Raso. Our relationship with Mike goes back to the late '90s when I was writing reviews of some of the company's very first releases. In 2001 when Monica and I recorded an album with our band, Mike granted us permission to use an audio clip from "Mistress Frankenstein", one of our favorite low budget camp masterpieces. It turned outto be the main film that inspired us to get serious about making our own films. The day after our band broke up, we shot "Buttonhead", which was heavily influenced by "Mistress Frankenstein". All the while, I remained a fan of Alternative Cinema and continue to review their films to this day (I even wrote the DVD liner notes to "Kinky Kong" back in 2006). While at the studio, Mike showed us this awesome red couch which we instantly recognized from many of AC's erotic epics, and told us we could have it if we could manage to get it out of there. Since it wouldn't fit in our carry-on luggage, we regretfully declined, but Monica's gears started turning. By the time we were home, she'd outlined the plot for a film called "The Erotic Couch". Never mind the fact that I'd been steadily making progress on an entirely different script - it had been months since we shot anything and our next project was going to be a pretty heavy drama. "Erotic Couch" sounded fun, so Monica gathered all her ideas and I wrote a shooting script based on them in a matter of hours. I shot a sequence with Countess Samela even before I'd written a single thing, just as a test to see how exactly Gonzoriffic would handle a decidedly sexy movie. What we ended up with was squirm-inducing, somewhere between hilarious and smoldering hot. I can't wait to see how it turns out. Come check us out on Facebook to see some advance artwork and still from the movie. Don't let the "X" on the posters mislead you - this movie doesn't feature anything more explicit than you've seen from us in the past in terms of bare flesh. What you can expect is to see the crew doing stuff you've not only never seen them do before, but you likely have never seen ANYONE do before. We took the couch idea to a place I don't think anybody is expecting us to go, and I'm proud of that. It's going to go over well with an audience. Speaking of which, I think I've come up with a plan for the next Gonzoriffic Midnight show downtown. Last October we did a horror-themed show, so this one I want to be sexuality-themed. We will show "Two In The Pink", "Wake Up", "The Erotic Couch" and who knows what else, but I also plan on hosting a gallery of my nude photography that no one outside the crew has ever seen before. I've been wanting to do this for a long time and I think this would be the best way to make it happen. Gears turning. More later.
July 1st, 200911:24 pm: I met Linnea Quigley.
The honest truth is that I haven’t been able to think about much else since meeting Linnea Quigley at a film festival last weekend in New York City. And though she may not be a name in your household, a true horror movie fan’s heart should have skipped a beat reading that last sentence. From the late ‘70s on through the present day, she has starred in over 100 movies, two of which (“Return Of The Living Dead” and “Night Of The Demons”) are in my personal top ten list of all time. I had a poster of her in my school locker when I was in seventh grade. Back then, other guys were into Cindy Crawford or Janet Jackson, but my heart belonged to Linnea Quigley, a 5’ 2” blond who was quite handy with a chain saw. You’ve heard the term “Scream Queen”? Well it belongs to her. Long story short, a filmmaker I’m friends with hired Linnea (who currently resides in Florida) to emcee a festival at the Anthology Film Archives in NYC, and invited me to come up for the show. When I arrived at the theater, fans had already started gathering outside. The first words I heard as I passed by them were, “living legend”, and the cool head I’d managed to gather sitting in traffic for an hour beforehand began to thaw. I knew I didn’t want to be standing among them when Linnea arrived at the theater, lame as that sounds. The personal introduction I wanted was worth waiting for no matter what, even if it didn’t end up happening (again, lame, I know). But it wasn’t long before I was being lead over the velvet rope and into the screening room to meet the Queen. I kept switching the Ziploc bag full of items I wanted Linnea to autograph (just incase it rained, which it DID, so there!) from hand to hand so that neither would be all weird and sweaty when I went to shake hers. I stood patiently for a couple minutes as Linnea stood onstage checking the mic, going over the list of films she would be introducing, and being about 20 feet away from me. Next thing I knew, she walked over and we were introduced. I was about as collected as one would ever hope to be, and didn’t let it show that my inner pre-teen horror movie nerd was jumping up and down like some maniac. I politely asked if she had enough time to sign my copy of Jewel Shepard’s “Invasion Of The B-Girls”, a book of collected interviews with Linnea’s peers and those who came before her (a 007 “Bond Girl” or two, various ‘50s monster movie starlets and more) that I purchased at Atlanta’s long-gone Oxford Books at age fourteen. ( photos and more... )
June 18th, 200907:05 pm: This is why I sell our movies for $5 at conventions.
Monica discovered a blog entry written by a young woman who bought one of every film we had for sale at last April's Cinema Wasteland show. Check this out: http://spectresonagravenhill.blogspot.com/2009/06/go-gonzoriffic.htmlFar as I'm concerned, she gets free movies from us for life. I will gladly take this sort of recognition over the shallow, meaningless, fleeting "success" that comes from signing a distribution deal. A barcode and a sticker on another piece of plastic for the value bin? No thanks. The coolest girls on the planet dig Gonzoriffic, and that is a fact I wear proudly as the badge of honor it is. The blog made me realize I never made a trailer for I'm In The Basement, so this morning I threw a little something together. It never dawned on me just how much modern Hollywood trailers rely on the same exact set of loud sound effect cues! Anyone can do it... [BEWARE! TRAILER CONTAINS NAUGHTY LANGUAGE]Tags: diy cinema, feminism, gonzoriffic, horror film, pineapple soda, trailers, underground film
June 5th, 200908:43 pm: I'm going to meet Linnea Quigley.
I'm currently in the middle of writing our latest movie. How I know I'm completely in my mode is when I go to bed thinking about the story, dream about the story, and wake up thinking more shit about the story. I could probably go downtown and get stabbed by a guy wearing a Mister Peanut costume and still think about the story. But I'm superstitious about talking too much about projects before I've actually shot anything (you'd think after 6 years and over 20 movies I'd be over it, but I'm not), so that's all I can say on that for now. The biggest news is Monica and I are flying out to go see this in just a couple of weeks:  Like Gonzoriffic, Chainsaw Kiss is a DIY filmmaking gang of friends that produce and self-distribute all their own movies, and they're putting on a show (like we did a few times last year) featuring a selection of their stuff. Of course, we didn't have bands playing and didn't have a legendary horror star hosting ours, but then again, we're in Georgia. Home of Waffle House and 1-85. Linnea is one of my heroes, I've been a huge fan of hers since I first picked up a Fangoria way back in like 6th grade. I have often said it is my destiny to meet her, and now thanks to our friend Ruby it's going to happen. Will I faint, or will I be cool? Watch this space! Tags: chainsaw kiss, diy, filmmaking, linnea quigley, ruby larocca, underground film
April 24th, 200905:03 pm: An Open Letter to Marilyn Chambers
The first sex ed class I ever went to took place in 5th grade at Fernbank Science Center. Boys and girls went separately, and they put us in different rooms to show us different movies. Our teacher then warned us that anyone caught laughing during the presentation would be sent out to wait in the bus. With that, the lights went down, and Fernbank showed us a cartoon featuring a cartoon erection. No one’s allowed to laugh, remember? It was excruciating. The following year, we returned to the same place, only this time co-ed. I can remember feeling embarrassed for the girls in the room as the mysteries of the female anatomy were explained. I didn’t make eye contact with anyone. And, yes, the animated weenis made an encore appearance. While I don’t recall my parents ever discussing sex with me, I think they might’ve been confident that I was mature enough to figure it out. Due to the presence of Easyriders magazine, books about nude and erotic photography, and R-rated films in our home, the female form was something I was entirely comfortable with at an early age. My folks made sure I knew there was nothing dirty or bad about the human body, and I distinctly remember my mom explaining to me that the pictures in those books were “art”. However, the details of sex remained elusive. I remember looking up a lot of different words in these giant medical encyclopedias we had (bound in red with gold foil lettering), including the exact definition of the act of sex. There were drawings similar to the ones I’d seen in sex ed, mostly cross-sections that weren’t exactly appealing. The mechanics were completely understood, but at a certain point, there’s only so much you can learn without seeing the real deal in action. ( Read on... )
March 31st, 200910:30 pm: Cinema Wasteland, Faces Of Schlock + T-Shirts
This weekend, Gonzoriffic is off to Cleveland, Ohio for CINEMA WASTELAND! We'll be at the Faces Of Schlock table, along with the other filmmakers involved in the feature-length anthology DVD release, selling our stuff and catching up with our Ohio friends. If you're anywhere near the Cleveland area, consider making the trip. We don't find ourselves out that way too often, and it's always a lot of goddamn fun. Here's the trailer for the DVD, featuring scenes from the film we made ("Blood Witch") as well as another one I wrote ("Slay Ride", starring Ruby LaRocca): Looking to display your love for Gonzoriffic across your boobies? Head over to our Cafepress store and check out the new t-shirts featuring artwork by our friend Rachael Deacon. Making shirts is expensive, so this is the best way to get one at the moment (we don't make any money off these). People are always asking where they can get a Gonzoriffic shirt - there you go. That's all for now, muddafuckas.Tags: diy cinema
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