Live Filmmaking in Parts
A Conceptual Project By Seattle School (MOTEL)

When asked why he was participating in this crazy experiment, director Kris Kristensen said "Because it scares me. The idea of directing an actor whom I've just met, who's not trained as an actor in front of a live audience is intimidating. The fact that I can't use my voice to communicate with them is ridiculous if not terrifying. It's gonna be fun." He later added with a smirk "What's the worst that can happen? I fall on my face in public and opt never to leave my home again." Where's all this going? Keep reading.

FEATURING THE KEEN DIRECTORIAL PROWESS OF:
Virginia Bogert - the Emmy award winning President of Women in Film Seattle
Sue Corcoran - High end commercial video (Microsoft, Real Networks) and features to include She's a Dog
Daniel Gildark - Cthulhu, a darling at SIFF and the Rhode Island International Film Festival
Kris Kristensen - Numerous films and projects to include Inheritance and Elixirs & Remedies
Christian Palmer - Forcefields
Lynn Shelton - Numerous films and music videos to include We Go Way Back Grand Jury Prize at Slamdance

WITH AMAZING TALENTS OF:
Rob Millis - the film composer and founder of the legendary Climax Golden Twins
Jacob Stone - producer of the popular Opticlash VJ battles and founder of Punch Drunk Productions
Kris Moon - education director of the Decibel festival and founder of the Laptop Battle

AND THE PERFORMANCE STYLINGS OF:
Aaron Allshouse, JD Barton, Kyle Bliss, Danielle Gibeson, Dustin Kemp, Abby Klein, Caitlin Ngo, and more

We think Andy Warhol's 1965 film Vinyl is super. Warhol adapted the Anthony Burgess novel A Clockwork Orange a full 6 years before Kubrick's version. It's super. So we've decided to remake it. But remaking a film is expensive and difficult and time-consuming. And we're not filmmakers. And we're not big fans of recorded media. And we're not fans of singular vision. We like collaboration. We like watching artists who know that their visions will be foiled, agendas blocked, try with enthusiasm anyway. We want to see brilliant people rapidly maneuver around constraints. So we've decided to remake Vinyl, but actually we're going to let other artists remake it for us. We will restage the film as a live performance. And at the end of the performance, we will have a finished product that could be called a film. We're remaking "Vinyl by breaking it into parts. We're remaking it by unmaking it.

Six years before Stanley Kubrick's A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, Andy Warhol adapted the Anthony Burgess novel for his classic, black and white Factory film, VINYL. In homage to Warhol, Seattle School will transform the entire Northwest Film Forum building for a unique Factory-style recreation of the film. This grand, live happening restages the film in parts, with simultaneous live performance, filming, and screening in our two cinemas and lobby.

Northwest filmmakers Lynn Shelton, Daniel Gildark, Virginia Bogart, Sue Corcoran, Christian Palmer and Kris Kristensen will direct models cum actors in cinema 1. Their footage will be projected live in cinema 2, where the audience intervenes in the creative process and composers (including Rob Millis of Climax Golden Twins) perform an improvised score. In the lobby, VJs (including Jacob Stone of Opticlash and Kris Moon from the Decibel Festival) will merge and edit the video and audio feeds from both cinemas in real time, creating a live finished film projected onto a translucent screen.

The audience can move around freely between rooms throughout the evening, witnessing the different stages of the event's unique filmmaking process. The event ends when the final new interpretation of VINYL is complete. In keeping with Seattle School tradition, everyone is invited to stay after for fresh waffles (and yes, there will be Cool Whip.)AND! A special Sunday screening will get you inside the muddy heads of the would be filmmakers. We'll screen both nights films in both theaters simultaneously and talk over it, just like on the DVDs. So if you're still scratching your head, come back for the special features, and everything will be made clear.

WHERE:
the Northwest Film Forum - 1515 12th Ave, on Capitol Hill between Pike and Pine.
WHEN
9 PM (8 PM doors), Fri 14 & Sat 15 DEC
Special screening of the finished films with LIVE "DVD commentary" 7 PM, Sun 16 DEC
HOW MUCH
Fri & Sat $15 general / $12 NWFF members

Sunday screening FREE for stub keepers from Fri or Sat - all others standard admission

Advance ticket purchase available online until the day of the show from www.brownpapertickets.com or by calling 1-800-838-3006

More details at www.aclockworkreduction.com