"Video Mass Mixtape #2" Screening Tonight

Described as a "screening of hidden gems, never-before-seen films," Video Mass' Mixtape #2: Rarities and B-Sides will be screening tonight, August 10th, at 9:00 PM at Videology (308 Bedford Avenue) in Brooklyn.  

Among the short films will be two by yours truly, including ESCAPE FROM STATEN ISLAND and MUSTACHE PARTY.   Admission is free!

THE EVERLASTING VINTAGE and GIRLS BEFORE SWINE at the Lower East Side Festival of the Arts

My time-travel horror short The Everlasting Vintage as well as my collaboration with Rachel Klein, Girls Before Swine, will be screening this year as official selections at the 19th Annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts at the Theater for the New City in Manhattan.  The screening begins at 7:45 P.M. on Saturday, May 24, and the theater is located at 155 First Avenue, between 9th and 10th Streets.  This is a free event!

THE EVERLASTING VINTAGE at the Fargo Fantastic Film Festival

My time-travel horror film, The Everlasting Vintage, will be screening this year as an official selection at the Fargo Fantastic Film Festival, in association with ValleyCon.
 
It will screen on Saturday, October 18th– further details are available here, in the program guide.  The Everlasting Vintage stars Joe Stipek and Michael V. Porsche, features music and champagne bottle art by Jesse Carlson, and design by Rachel Klein and Daisy Tainton.

The Everlasting Vintage (TRAILER) from Sean Gill on Vimeo.

THE EVERLASTING VINTAGE: Trailer now up!

For those of you who didn't make it to Flux Fest, here's the trailer for my latest film:

The Everlasting Vintage (TRAILER) from Sean Gill on Vimeo.

THE EVERLASTING VINTAGE at Flux Fest tomorrow night!

My newest film THE EVERLASTING VINTAGE will debut tomorrow night at Flux Fest, a festival featuring ten short films about time travel.  I will also be appearing as an actor– as "Chronopoulos," the inventor of time travel– in Ryan Garretson and Robyn Nielsen's latest film, MAXIMUM STACHE: QUANTUM REDEEMER.

When:  July 28, 2013  /  Doors at 6:00 P.M.  /  Screening at 8:00 P.M.

Where:   Sandbox Studio Brooklyn, 154 Morgan Avenue in Brooklyn (Off the Morgan Ave. L stop, or the Flushing Ave. M stop).

What:  Flux Fest!

How:  Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door, include a six hour open bar, and are available here!
THE EVERLASTING VINTAGE's synopsis is as follows:  "A champagne aficionado stumbles upon a mysterious gateway to the past."

It stars Joe Stipek and Michael Porsche, features original music and artwork by Jesse Carlson, costumes and art direction by Rachel Klein, taxidermy and other design by Daisy Tainton, and was written, directed, and edited by Sean Gill.  Hope some of you can make it out!

Junta Juleil's EVERLASTING VINTAGE at Flux Fest!

My latest film (in association with RKP Productions), THE EVERLASTING VINTAGE, will debut on July 28th at Flux Fest, a festival featuring ten short films about time travel.

THE EVERLASTING VINTAGE's synopsis is as follows:  "A champagne aficionado stumbles upon a mysterious gateway to the past."  It stars Joe Stipek and Michael Porsche, features original music and artwork by Jesse Carlson, costumes and art direction by Rachel Klein, taxidermy and other design by Daisy Tainton, and was written, directed, and edited by Sean Gill.

When:  July 28, 2013  /  Doors at 6:00 P.M.  /  Screening at 8:00 P.M.

Where:   Sandbox Studio Brooklyn, 154 Morgan Avenue in Brooklyn (Off the Morgan Ave. L stop, or the Flushing Ave. M stop).

What:  Flux Fest!

How:  Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door, include a six hour open bar, and are available here!

From the press release:

"Flux Fest challenges a group of young filmmakers to produce high-quality short films about time-travel. JOIN US JULY 28th!

With only eight weeks to take their projects from concept to completion, each team works tirelessly for the duration of the challenge to make the best short film possible, all culminating in a one-of-kind night of movie-watching and celebration.

From Spooky Fest (in which filmmakers were commissioned to make horror shorts in time for Halloween 2012) to Love Fest (romantic-comedy shorts for Valentine’s Day 2013) festival attendance grew by more than three-times and Flux Fest promises to expand upon its predominantly Brooklyn-based audience even further. Just as the number of participating filmmakers and exhibited films offered has grown, so too has the following of this impressive community of filmmakers who work to support eachother in spite of the fact that they will eventually compete against one another for a variety of awards, including an Audience Choice Award, an award for Best in Show, and an award for Creative Ambition. Both Best in Show and Creative Ambition honorees will be chosen by a distinguished panel of judges.

By purchasing a ticket to Flux Fest, audience members will also receive a six hour open bar and the chance to enjoy a variety of live entertainment acts throughout the night.

Flux Fest participants include: Maurice Caicedo, Chris Cipriano, Grier Dill, James Gannon, Joe Gannon, Ryan Garretson, Brett Glass, Sean Gill, Tessa Greenberg, Philip Henken, Cale Hughes, Christine Kecher, Lit Kilpatrick, Rachel Klein, Carl Conway Maguire, Alex Meyers, Robyn Nielsen, Shaun Seneviratne, Megan Stein, Michael Tosner, Jarrod Zayas, and many more."

LOVE FEST Update!

I wrote previously about my new film GIRLS BEFORE SWINE, which debuted this year at Love Fest, but now there is an official Love Fest site whereupon you can view some of the other films in their entirety as well as a new trailer for GIRLS BEFORE SWINE.  Indiewood/Hollywouldn't also gave us some coverage here.  Stay tuned!

GIRLS BEFORE SWINE

I've finished a new film– a collaboration between myself and theater director Rachel Klein.  It's called GIRLS BEFORE SWINE and it stars Aimee DeLong, Jillaine Gill, Meghan Holland, Joe Stipek, Michael Porsche, David F. Slone, Esq.,  Brian Ferree, Scooter Pie, Megan O'Connor, and Robyn Nielsen.

GROWING BOY screening this Friday in NYC

My film, GROWING BOY, is screening on Friday, February 1st as a part of the NYC Downtown Short Film Festival.    The plot is described thusly:  "Haunted by recurring nightmares of his childhood home, a man begins to undergo unsettling changes." 

 It stars Joe Stipek and David F. Slone, Esq.  I wrote and directed and edited, etc.  Music by Jesse Carlson.  It was made with the helpful participation of Jillaine Gill, Rachel Klein, and Daisy Tainton.

It will be screened on Friday at 8:00 p.m. at the DMAC (Duo Multicultural Arts Center) on 62 East 4th Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues) in Manhattan.  Tickets are $10 in advance, and $15 at the door, and are available here.  After the screening, the audience will vote on the films and the highest ranked will proceed to the next stage of the festival.

Hope some of you can make it out!

Happy Halloween!... and GROWING BOY

Well, we survived the hurricane here at Junta Juleil, but it's sort of put a damper on all things Halloween.  Far more time was spent watching news reports and stockpiling water/peanut butter/beer than was spent watching CAT'S EYE and HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN and BASKET CASE– though rest assured, time was made for those fine films.

Anyway, speaking of horror films, I have a new one that debuts tonight at the First Annual Spooky Fest in Bushwick, Brooklyn– it's called GROWING BOY, and promises to frighten and appall.   



It stars Joe Stipek and David F. Slone, Esq.  I wrote and directed and edited and all that jazz.  Music by Jesse Carlson.  It was made with the helpful participation of Jillaine Gill, Rachel Klein, and Daisy Tainton.

I hope you all weathered the storm and are enjoying your Halloweens– and remember– Halloween's not truly over till Thanksgiving!

MUSTACHE PARTY (2010, Sean Gill)

I've been uploading some of my older films to the internet– I thought that some of you might get a kick out of MUSTACHE PARTY, a sort of avant-garde doom-laden tract best described as "Four mustachioed individuals await the impending apocalypse as a skeleton pummels a kettle drum and a hairy, Stygian Beast gradually awakens. It stars Jillaine Gill, Joe Stipek, Rachel Klein, and yours truly, who wrote and directed and all of that. It debuted at the 2011 Lower East Side Film Festival. Enjoy!

Mustache Party from Sean Gill on Vimeo.

Tonight Only: HOLY CUCKOOS WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO MY LIFE

Tonight;s installment of our residency at the Bowery Poetry Club will be an ode to quotidian horrors, instability, and unspeakable madness. The variety hour will be curated (and often performed by) Junta Juleil Theatricals in association with Bluebox Productions and the Rachel Klein Theater. It's called HOLY CUCKOOS WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO MY LIFE, and will commence at 9:30 PM on Sunday, May 22nd at the Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery between Houston and Bleecker, take the F train to 2nd Ave, or the 6 to Bleecker.) Tickets will be $10, cash only, available at the door.

Featuring:

•Chainsaw Alley's a Helluva Place to be at 3 O'Clock in the Morning, Or At Any Other Time

Written by Sean Gill, Performed by Meghan Holland and Jillaine Gill, Directed by Booze E. Thymes.

•Comedy by Kerryn Feehan

•Absolutely Cuckoo

Conceived by Jake Thomas, Performed by Jake Thomas and Sean Gill.

•He's Mine
Conceived and performed by Kristy Hasen.

•Choose Your Own Adventure: The Worst Day of Your Life

Performed by Sean Gill.

•Killer Workout

Created and choreographed by Rachel Klein, Performed by Abbie Hawk, Scooter Pie, Freddy Mancilla, Brian Rubiano, Robyn Nielsen, and Danielle Marie Fusco.
•A Sermon
By The Preacher
•Peaches
Written by Sean Gill, Directed by Jillaine Gill, Performed by Chris Cipriano, Jose Ramos, Robyn Nielsen, and Eden Foster.
•Comedy by Brandy Rowell
•Hyperspace
Choreographed and Performed by Sean Gill.
•I Never Sprang for my Father
By Black Temple Shirley

Hope some of you can make it out!

MUSTACHE PARTY screening tonight at Big Vision Empty Wallet

WHO: You.
WHAT: My film MUSTACHE PARTY screening at Big Vision Empty Wallet, presented by Industry Power Play-NYC Film Events.
WHEN: Starts at 7PM, but screenings won't begin until 8:45PM.
WHERE: Bar 13. 35 East 13th Street, Manhattan, NY.
HOW MUCH: $7 online; $10 at the door.

Psycho Space Laboratory at the Bowery Poetry Club!

As part of a new joint-residency called the "Psycho Space Laboratory" at the Bowery Poetry Club between Junta Juleil Theatricals (DREAMS OF THE CLOCKMAKER, AENIGMA), Rachel Klein Productions (THE TRAGEDY OF MARIA MACABRE, GO-GO KILLERS!), and Blue Box Productions (STICKY, ZEROPIA), we will be presenting a launch party/theatrical event paying homage largely to Science Fiction of the 1950's and 60's. From the press release:

"These three innovative companies have joined forces to bring to life an immersive world of entertainment, blending vintage pop culture with futuristic sci-fi—converting the bar at Bowery Poetry Club into a world of performance adventure. The 'Launch Party A-Go-Go!' features an space age story interwoven throughout an entire evening of performance art, dance, and performance art curation by Eric Schmalenberger (Banzai!, the Arch Collective, the Citizen’s band). Emcees Eric Schmalenberger and Miss Kristen Lee! Featuring the RKP Dancers! Elizabeth Stewart, Megan O'Connor, Michael Porsche, Preston Burger, Freddy Mancilla, Brian Rubiano, Scooter Pie, Robyn Nielsen, Rosabelle Selavy and Miss Kristen Lee; Short Plays by Libby Emmons and Sean Gill; Live Music by Jeffrey Marsh; Performances by Joe Stipek, Jake Thomas, Nancy Noto, and Jillaine Gill; and much more!"

The event takes place on February 27th, 2011 and begins at 9:30 P.M. It will be held at the Bowery Poetry Club- 308 Bowery in Manhattan, NY. Cost is $10 dollars.

MUSTACHE PARTY screening tonight at the LES Film Festival

Tonight only, at the Lower East Side Film Festival, they're showing MUSTACHE PARTY, a short film I made last summer (starring Jillaine Gill, Rachel Klein, Joe Stipek, and myself) at 8:00 PM. The screening venue is 'Grand Opening,' and it's situated at 139 Norfolk Street in Manhattan's Lower East Side. The closest subway is the Essex/Delancey J, M, Z and F stop. Tickets are $10, and they, along with additional details, are available HERE.

Sean Gill's MUSTACHE PARTY at the LES Film Festival

MUSTACHE PARTY, a short film I made last summer (starring frequent collaborators Jillaine Gill, Rachel Klein, Joe Stipek, and myself) will be screening at the Lower East Side Film Festival on February 10th at 8:00 PM. The screening venue is 'Grand Opening,' and it's situated at 139 Norfolk Street in Manhattan's Lower East Side. Tickets are $10, and they, along with additional details, are available HERE.

The film can be described as follows: "Four mustachioed individuals await the impending apocalypse as a skeleton pummels a kettle drum and a hairy, Stygian Beast gradually awakens." There's stop-motion, schweet mustaches, and a shroud of existential dread. And a MIDI arrangement of Beethoven's 7th Symphony. Enjoy.

MUSTACHE PARTY (2010, Sean Gill)

I just put the finishing touches on a new film this weekend- a quickie I decided to direct and produce before SLUMLORD SHITHEEL SLAUGHTER begins in earnest. And while it will be likely be some time (submissions, festivals, etc.) before you can watch it online, here are are few screen captures to pique your interest. It's a five minute, mostly silent, short and stars Jillaine Gill, Rachel Klein, and Joe Stipek. It may or may not involve MIDI music and stop-motion animation, and if I had to describe it in one word, that word would be "apocalyptic." Enjoy.