I identify mostly with Ken Russell and Tod Browning above and beyond anyone (and prefer the term identify with, rather than influenced by)After these two; Joseph Von Sternberg,Tarkovsky, Carl Theodore Dreyer, Luis Bunuel, Guy Maddin, Kenneth Anger, John Waters, Pee Wee Herman, Charlie Chalin, Harry Langdon, Buter Keaton, Charlie Bowers, Maya Deren, Jacques Prévert, Raul Ruiz, The Marx Brothers, Jan Svankmajer, Julie Taymor, Jacques Tourneur, Frank Zappa,Edgar G. Ulmer, Nelly Kaplan, Ed Wood, Daina Krummins,Stanley Kubrick,Jean Cocteau, Busby Berkeley, Jodorowsky,Brothers Quay,Stan Brakhage,Spike Lee,Budd Boetticher.
Directors
Alfred Eaker and Ross St. Just
Awards
Recently finished and now submitting to festivals, seeking showings, and distribution
Professional Affiliations
Liberty or Death Productions & The Asylum House
W the Movie (official myspace page)'s Interests
General
Dadaism, surrealism and outsider art; the art of Jean Dubuffet, Karel Appel, Lenora Carrington, Alberto Giacometti, Anselm Kiefer, Victor Brauner, Yves Tanguy, Chaim Soutine, Jean Fautrier, Kazimir Malevich, Dieter Roth, Gerhard Richter, Jean Dubuffet, Kiki Smith, Kathe Kollwitz, Sarah Lucas, Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, Paul Delvaux, Joe Coleman, Roberto Sebastian Matta , Cindy Sherman, Joan Miro, the Outsider art of Henry Darger ,Adolf Wolfli and the
surrealist photographers; Man Ray, Brassai, Tabard, Ubac and Boiffard.Glam Rock, silent film, early Hollywood, German Expressionism,Independent film,20th century avant-garde music.
Music
Luigi Nono's last decade, particularly; "La lontanaza nostalgica Utopica Futura', "Prometeo", "Fragmente" and "hay cue caminar", Morton Feldman, Gustav Mahler, with a preference for his 7th, John Zorn's "Big Gundown", Cecil Taylor's "Double Holy House", Peter Brotzmann's "Machine Gun", Charles Mingus "Black Saint and the Sinner Lady", David Bowie,Velvet Underground, and Prince.
*In the film we use the music of Gustav Mahler ;the 1st, (performed by Charles Adler), the 3rd, 7th and 8th(performed by Hermann Scherchen), along with the music of Beethoven, Schoenberg, Bartok, Grieg, Berlioz, and Mozart - all courtesy of Tahra Records, DJ Monkey, Buzz Kimbell and Hars.
Movies
The naive surrealism of Feuillade and Ed Wood,and even a few of the Elvis films (like the one where he's a frogman and takes yoga instructions with Elsa Lanchester!?!).
Ken Russell, the misunderstood Tod Browning (who was a surrealist),
W.C. Fields, The Marx Brothers,Rocky Horror Picture Show, Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" (among many others),Orson Welle's "Macbeth" and "Chimes at Midnight" are far preferable to anything Olivier did, The Val Lewton films for RKO, "Cabinet of Dr. Caligari", Ulmer's "The Black Cat", The short films of Melies. The 20's and 30's mainly, when film was still a new and innovative art form, and the 'rules' for filmmaking had not yet been set.Many, many others under 'influences'.
Television
Hopelessly uninspiring, there has been nothing imaginative on tv since they took "Pee Wee's Playhouse" and Bakshi's "New Adventures of Mighty Mouse " off the air and haven't watched the tube on regular basis since, as unfathomable as it is to believe!
Books
Andre Breton's 'Manifestoes of Surrealism', Meret Oppenheim, Louis Aragon, Benjamin Peret, Aime Cesaire ,and Georges Bataille's 'Documents'. Artaud , Baudelaire, Philip Lamantia, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Merton, Jacques Ellul, Amos Vogel's "Cinema as Subversive Art" is still THE bible for film study.
Heroes
Yukon 'Even among misfits, you're a misfit' Cornelius and Ken Russell
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" W the Movie" is a surreal satire about the failed presidency of George W.Bush, 911, the War in Iraq, the devastating tragedy of Katrina, and the hope for change in the upcoming elections of 2008.
a World of chaos begins when
a Word crashes in the desert and brings
War!
Strange things begin to happen when a meteor crashes in the Arizona desert and brings W back to the planet Earth.
Written and produced by Alfred Eaker.
Directed by Alfred Eaker and Ross St.Just.
Associate producers: Ernest Stewart (of Issues and Alibis), Steven Sorin, Wendy Collin Sorin, Zach Brinkerhoff and Jim Mannan & Robin Panet/Liberty or Death productions.
A Pink and Blue Films, LLC production in association with Liberty or Death Productions.
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'W' The Movie, artist statement from the Artistic Spirit Website :
http://www.artisticspiritgallery.com/news/ http://www.artisticspiritgallery.com/
“W” THE MOVIE is a surreal satire on the presidency of George W. Bush. I recognize the person of George W. Bush, as well I should, having been raised in a Pentecostal church, because, essentially, Bush is a fundamentalist. From the beginning, Bush’s leadership, personality, paranoia, aggression and arrogance have reminded me much of the Pentecostal preachers I used to watch and listen to in that small backwoods church. The Pentecostal experience was, for me, a chaotic and surreal one, much like what we’ve seen in the Bush presidency. “W” The Movie is a surreal satire on the failed George W. Bush presidency, 9/11, the invasion of Iraq, the administration’s devastating failure of Katrina and a presidency spiraling out of control. Absurdism meets Greek tragedy. I used author Michael Basinski’s book “Strange Things Begin to Happen When a Meteor Crashes in the Arizona Desert” as a starting point for the film’s script. In the book, a world of chaos is unleashed after a meteor crashes in the desert. Our film opens the same way, with a bit of a twist. BlueMahler finds a shrunken Texas Oil Man (George Bush, Sr.) in a box and unwittingly unleashes him on the world. Now, giant-sized, Texas Oil Man discovers a crashed meteor in the desert and in it, his long lost son, W, whom he runs for President. With Daddy’s help, W steals the election and becomes the 43rd President of the United Sates. This opening has shades of 50’s sci-fi movies and the Superman legend but it soon takes on the fundamentalist atmosphere of a carnival-like freak show. Like the televangelists, W is a cartoon caricature, a super villain of limited intelligence, backed up by endless financial resources. The movie includes special visual and audio elements, including artwork from Wendy Collin Sorin and Ian Pyper, and a series of paintings by me, created specifically for the film. The soundtrack is extremely varied, matching up with the themes and mood of specific scenes. It varies from the anti-war music of Beethoven to the contemporary, outspoken sounds of the LA band, DJ Monkey. BlueMahler is the protagonist of the film and he’s based off four people. He’s a bit the humanist artist found in composer Gustav Mahler and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin and like those two artists, BlueMahler has a developed sense of pathos that can, at times, be preachy. He’s even more Fr. Justin Belitz, a Franciscan, liberal theologian (and a personal friend). For added measure, BlueMahler is a dose of George Reeve’s Superman. Indeed, BlueMahler is painted the Superman colors of red and blue (tying in also with the red and blue election states), but this is not the buff Superman of Christopher Reeve (etc), rather a 40 year old amorous Superman who drinks, eats and smokes a little too much. I can identify with these characteristics and for this reason, I played BlueMahler myself. BlueMahler tries to be the voice of reason in the film. He’s not always successful and he’s deeply flawed. There’s a little bit of W in BlueMahler (and vice versa. This is why I also played W). After BlueMahler’s fall, W’s guilt gets the better of him and his presidency spirals out of control. “W” The Movie is a tale straight from the theatre of the absurd, a biblical melodrama told on WrestleMania television, a Greek myth played out on a Christian broadcast network, the Book of Revelations told in a 1950’s sci-fi movie. W’s world is a world I hate and understand. Alfred Eaker, Producer, Director, Author, Actor
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Peace Sunday, June 5, 1982, Rose Bowl, no nukes - nuclear disarmament - stop nuclear madness concert - NYC - Central Park - June 12, 1982, 1,000,000 person march and rally for Nuclear Freeze. Photography and presentation by Curtis Rainbow. 'Give Peace a Chance' music by Achim Schultz. Inspiration by Yoko Ono. Dedicated to John Lennon.
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Our website is open the 31st, be there to check
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We’ll have new footage up for the show too . This one is gonna kikazz
see ya
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"The Union" - 4 Nominations - 2009 Terror Film Festival!! Hey EVERYONE!! Everyone has been asking about the film, so here's the festival news update! So far, here's a recap:
* *4 Nominations - 2009 Terror Film Festival - Best Script, Thriller Short Film, Cinematography, and Original Score. (Philadelphia, PA.) on Oct 24-25th.
* Official Selection - 2009 Vampire Film Festival - (New Orleans) on Oct 23-26th.
* Official Selection - 2009 Madison Horror Film Festival (Madison, WI.) on Oct 3-4th.
* Official Selection - 2009 Tromadance (Summer) Film Festival (Shelbyville, Indiana.) Sept. 13-19th. Screened twice.
* Official Selection - 2009 Johnstown Wine & Film Festival (Johnstown, PA.) July 9-11th.
* Official Selection - 2009 Zompire Film Festival (Portland, OR.) May 13-15th
Hello. Hope you're doing good. So what do you think the final healthcare reform bill should be named? "Ted Kennedy?" "The American Plan"? ...and why do the conservatives continue to hijack the national debate? Visit http://wp.me/ps8BM-75 Peace!
