GENRE-SHREDDING FILMS - EXCLUSIVE NYC SCREENINGS - ART IS WAR
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GENRE-SHREDDING FILMS - EXCLUSIVE NYC SCREENINGS - ART IS WAR ⚔️
FILMS
WE MAKE ODDBALL, GENRE-forward INDEPENDENT FILMS THAT TELL memorable stories WITH moxie.
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A city council candidate finds his ambitious, chaotic campaign derailed by local tabloids, naysayers and a BDSM sex scandal.
(This comedy premiered at SLAMDANCE and will be released Fall 2024.)
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A cheerful young man introduces his girlfriend's lovable qualities in a suspicious montage that gradually reveals his murderous intentions.
(This short film is currently in festivals.)
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After a closeted pastor receives a mysterious note threatening to expose him, he goes to extreme - and violent - lengths to keep his secret hidden.
(This short film is currently in festivals.)
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It's "shoot or be shot" when a pair of trigger-happy art students hold their cameraman hostage, forcing him cross-country to capture their pretentious documentary.
(This feature screenplay is currently in development.)
eventS
WE THROW BI-MONTHLY ThEMED ANTHOLOGY film festival titled “PARADISE SHRED’ITION” AT A sPEAKEASY ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE OF NYC.
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“PARADISE SHRED’ITION” was our production company launch party and inaugural anthology screening. The program played for an audience of over two hundred partygoers on a rolling basis into the evening. Popular demand inspired an encore screening the following week.
Curation highlights include award-winning director Jonny Look’s absurdist dance piece “Phér- Bŏney Love Theme”, Jean-Louis Droulers’ Berlin VMA-winning “WOLF” and Alexandra Warrick’s farce “questions (or: peanut butter)”, hailed by NYMag as 2019's best comedic short.
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Our second anthology screening was night of horror comedy and “anti-comedy” short films, leaning into the uncanny and the uncomfortable. We collaborated with the creators of several viral classics of the genre alongside promising newcomers.
Curation highlights include a tenth anniversary screening of Wham City Comedy’s [adult swim] 4 AM Infomercials classic Unedited Footage of a Bear, Robin Comisar’s festival phenomenon Great Choice and Jury Duty' s David Brown’s oddball micro-series “Today’s Corrections For Yesterday”.
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Our third anthology screening was an ode to New York City, a diverse and confrontational curation of films inspired by OMA’s native locale. All works were shot in NYC by NYC-based filmmakers.
Curation highlights include Shit New Yorkers Say, a run-and-gun observational sketch starring Ilana Glazer of Broad City, Adi Eshman’s Oscar-qualifying two-hander ANNE and Elias Hinojosa’s SXSW standout LULLABY.
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Our fourth anthology screening was an evening of comedic micro-shorts - short films that clocked in at two minutes or less. These micro-shorts told distinct stories with a surreal, hallucinogenic bent - all in 120 seconds or less.
Curation highlights included Waverly Films’ early-Internet classic “Pick Up The Phone”, Cody Kostro’s gleefully profane rap video “Blade on Deck” and “The Cycle of Life”, a mesmerizing animated fugue from U M A M I.
COMING SOON
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For our November anthology, we’re seeking short films that make you wonder where you are and how you got there. Plot twists, curveballs and chaos welcome. We appreciate genre-shapeshifting, disorienting edits and aesthetic mashups. Irreverent, rule-breaking storytelling encouraged.
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For our December end-of-year anthology, we’ll be showcasing the “best of the best”: an encore revue of the short films from our previous screenings with the strongest concepts, style and audience response. This anniversary event is meant to celebrate the cream of the crop, collecting the shorts that stuck with us the most into a program of “bangers only”.
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For our February anthology, we’re seeking the least erotic love- and sex-themed short films possible. Think sensual scenes gone wrong, egregious romantic miscommunications, uncommon fetishes, misleading overtures, upsetting FanFiction, deeply strange couples or profoundly cursed Valentines.
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For our April anthology, we’re seeking short films that were made for zero dollars and zero cents. Whether you begged, borrowed or stole, we want to see what you’ve come up with sans cash. We appreciate resourceful techniques, creative props and memorable uses of found or public domain footage. Remix, repurpose, reuse or reinvent - just don’t spend!
TEAM
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is a producer with over ten years of experience in the entertainment industry. He has supported a range of projects across mediums, including feature films, television, video games, off-Broadway theater, scripted podcasts and ballet. He is a professional actor himself, known for his memorable turns in “Pledge” (2018), “The Wrath of Becky” (2023), “The Blind” (2023) and “Alpha Rift” (2021). A collaborative force with a taste for the outré, he is passionate about shining a light on underground talent.
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is a screenwriter, director and editor. At Columbia University, Warrick studied avant-garde comedy; “The Dada of Haha”, her thesis on programming block Adult Swim, merited her the prestigious Andrew Sarris Award for Film Criticism and designated her the first “anti-comedy” academic on record. Her debut, “Questions (Or: Peanut Butter)”, was praised in 2019 in New York Magazine for “boast[ing] the best comedic crescendo [they] had the pleasure of covering this year”. She is fiercely committed to flouting convention and challenging audiences with her irreverent work.
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is a writer and director. An alumna of the Savannah College of Art and Design, she is now concentrating in 21st-century Black and Latino Film and Media at CUNY’s B.A. of unique and independent studies. She was awarded the 2023 Joel Schumacher scholarship to experience GothamEDU's Film and Media Career Development program while also contributing her talents to the team at MTV. A devotee of dark comedy and coming-of-age stories, she pursues scripts with sharply-observed femme antiheroes and nuanced depictions of POC queer identities.
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is a filmmaker and advertising maven who began her storytelling career as a solo travel vlogger. Through her vlog Megan Without A Plan, she collaborated with a variety of brands, developing a knack for seamlessly incorporating clients’ visions into her content. A dyed-in-the-wool adventurer, her bold, experimental nature and strategic acumen fuels her memorable approach to brand activation and guerrilla marketing.
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Is a curator, events coordinator and visual artist. Her background in contemporary art was honed at the Sotheby’s Institute in London. She has marshaled a range of successful events, from performances at MoMA to fashion shows for Anna Sui. She now applies her traditional training to a far less traditional landscape: the wild west of the World Wide Web. She prides herself on being an aficionado of the Internet’s wildest viral content, or “having good taste in bad taste”.
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is an artist across mediums. A classically-trained actor and dancer, her many years contributing to large-scale projects through GagaLab, the Barrow Group, the Lambs Club and the New York Choreographer's Initiative cultivated in her a faith in the magic of group-based creative endeavors. Further facets of her art practice are her comprehensive backgrounds in studio art, costuming and graphic design.
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is a theatre-maker, actor and designer. At Point Park University, he intimately studied the legacy of the American musical, his work taking him to the Library of Congress; once graduated, he became one of the youngest actors to have been formally considered for the role of Billy Flynn by the Broadway production of CHICAGO. He possesses a prevailing faith in the magic of screen and stage spectacle, knowing that the more things change in media, the more they stay the same.
TESTIMONIALS
Emmet Dotan, Filmmaker (I Like It Here)
“A vivid, unhinged, and always exciting reincarnation of NYC’s underground screenings of the 1960s-1980s, ONE MAN ARMY and Paradise SHREDition breathe new and much-needed life into the city.”
Jesse Pimentel, Voice Actor (Assassin’s Creed)
“‘O.M.A.’ is exactly what any young, eccentric filmmaker is looking for. It’s a safe place to be weird and it has the added benefit of actually being connected.”
Joe Gallagher, Actor (Pledge)
“For anyone interested in the New York City film scene, the ONE MAN ARMY screening series is a must. THEY exemplIFY community-building in an industry that often feels obtuse or unnecessarily exclusive.”
Adi Eshman, screenwriter (ANNE)
“One Man Army excels at producing great events. Whether THEY’RE film screenings, plays or mixers, THE TEAM bringS together talented people around high-quality art.”
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