FILM SCREENINGS - GENRE-SHREDDING PRODUCTIONS - ART IS WAR
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FILM SCREENINGS - GENRE-SHREDDING PRODUCTIONS - 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.)
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 an AEA Stage Manager, with experience working on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Regionally. She graduated from SUNY Purchase College, Conservatory of Theatre Arts, BFA Design/Technology Program, with a focus in Stage Management. Since the age of four, she has attended Art schools. Throughout the years she has worked in numerous realms of the Arts, from visual arts to graphic design, creative writing to poetry, and performing to production work. Her artistic expression has gone through many phases over the years resulting in a highly personal approach and perspective. She is never content with standing still and is always looking for her next engaging, creative project. A constant in Kai's work is her passion and motivation for storytelling and advocacy for honest artistic expression.
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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 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.
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)
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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)
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