photos from the Fatale Shoot

smolder anyone?

this does not end well for the detective...

Geri-Nikole Love as Katalin (me as fat guy in mirror)

Katalin ponders killing...

no the mic wasn't in the actual shot...

F**k New York's John Thomassen as The Detective

who is this mystery woman?  BYTAFO...

The Amazing Spider-Cast of Fatale

Geri-Nikole Love as Katalin

Geri-Nikole Love attended New York University receiving her BFA in Drama from Tisch School of the Arts. While at Tisch, she studied at CAP21, Advance Classical, and Stonestreet Film/Television Studios. Since graduating, she became a co-founder of The Movement Theatre Company, and has performed in various plays; 'Carlisle: a different Three Sisters' (La Mama), 'Black Boy & the War' (Harlem School of the Arts). As well as appeared on The Biography Channel's Celebrity Ghost Stories, and Independent Films; 'Purpose Built' and 'GASP'.

Jennifer Onvie as Lily

 Jennifer Onvie:  A gamine originally from the midwest, Jennifer is making her way in NYC with her boyfriend and an alley cat she found on the street.  Passionate  baker and UCB intern, her grandmother's proudest moment is when she found herself in a scene opposite Ice T in Law&Order: SVU and she told her grandmother he was nice.

John Thomassen as The Detective

John's a veteran of F**k New York and I'm proud to get to work with him again!

8 films to hold you. the eight one. the eighth script.

fatale which has been with me for quite (no pun intended) some time now. written originally as the first scene of a (as yet unfinished) feature length screenplay and intended for my Hungarian Muse, my Uma (who had to go ahead and get all famous in Hungary before we could find the $$ to make it), this script kinda just languished untouched for years and years until this project came up and I decided to dust it off and give it a fresh coat of paint; which makes me quite (no pun intended) happy as I LOVE these two characters and am excited to bring them to life and can think of no better milieu than right here and right now.

The germ of the script came from an idea I had to make a noir film with two femme fatales (and YES I know Bound but Corky is the gumshoe character and not a femme fatale so shuttayouface), where we bump off the Sam Spade character in the first 10 seconds of the film and make our evil woman the protagonist...the story of this script (that is as yet unwritten...why do you have any money?) centers around the search for a missing brother, a Southern drug kingpin and a lot of kick ass assassin vs assassin action. someday, I'll get around to actually finishing it but as of today, the only extant parts are this opening scene and a couple small "connecting" scenes.  However, now that I've found my MAGNIFICENT cast, I'm going to do a rewrite to make this more "standalone".

Nathan Gregory on The Actor's Church

"Greetings, Readers! I'm Nathan Gregory; I played Brother Bill in the "St. Genesius" film of February and I had a great time shooting it. Kirk is being a little modest to say that we shot it in 3 hours. True, we had the space reserved from 9-12 AM, but we didn't start shooting until about a quarter to 10. And right away we ran into problems. While running through the script, we learned that there was no singing allowed on our floor. The supervisor-guy let us sing until ten, which meant that we only had a few chances to shoot Annie and her beautiful voice. Right away, we started going through the vocal sequence, squeezing in as many takes as we could before 10. Kirk was very relieved once we got through that, as he rightfully predicted it to be the hardest part to shoot. We ran into some other roadblocks, namely time. There was also the shifting around of microphones, doing some guerrilla shooting in the hallway after 12, and the regular lighting and blocking changes as the setup moves around. But as my old film professor always said, "Filmmaking is problem solving." And after 7 films in 7 months, I think Kirk is finding a really deep groove. When he generously took the cast and crew out to a delicious lunch (featuring several orders of Stuffed French Toast), I asked him if he was finding the process becoming easier. He immediately and emphatically said "Yes." And with the efficiency and speed that we shot those 12 pages, I would have to agree with his assessment. I'm eager to see what this growth brings next!"

How to Kill Yourself in One Year #7 "St. Genesius: The Actor's Church"

After a couple H.E.A.V.Y. months worth of films...we just wanted to go back to the good ol' days and knock one out in a few hours and hopefully have some fun (for a change!).

Plus we shot the entire thing in 3 hours because I couldn't afford a forth...Kudos for Annie and Nathan for their hard, awesome and FAST work!!

an interesting thing has happened...

...and I don't know if this is good, bad or ugly. This has suddenly become work. a job.

let me explain.

Before this project, whenever I'd create something...like the uber shitty Snipe Hunt Massacre: The Movie or the only slightly shitty Ant Farm or even my first real "movie-film", F**K New York, or any multitude of awful short films, it was just pure joy; or as Ed Burns put it, ten days of awesome.

But somewhere in here this all became a job; something about having to deliver on my deadlines even when inspiration did not strike (see: Act, Battle) made this whole thing feel less joyous and more, dare I say, mundane. tedious? Like WORK.   I was thinking of this last Saturday while trying to load the truck to drive into NYC at the butt-crack of dawn to shoot St. Genesius. I thought, "man this suddenly feels like a fucking job".

but that's the point...isn't it?

isn't it?

isn't the point of all this to one day have a career in film? to create something that eventually will be a livelihood? Is this not the very thing I so desperately have dreamed about for a quarter of a century and more than half of my life?   that this should feel like work, means it's not a hobby, right?

haven't i arrived, somehow?

huh?

HUUUHHHH???

I guess I should feel a sense of validation but I actually just feel poor and tired. It would help if I actually could figure out how to make money off of this...because I guess technically i'm doing a self-imposed intership and you know what they say about a man who is has himself for an intern (he can only fuck himself in the ass).

honestly I am not sure what or why i'm saying this; it just seemed to pop in my head.

I never thought that an added side effect of doing this, treating this like my job, would be that, from time to time, my job sucks.

hmmm...

Photos from St. Genesius Shoot

Tawnya, make sure you take on set pix. Mission accomplished.

Grisel watches a smokin' take

"is this your first time at seeking spiritual representation?"

the line i'm saying here seems to scream for the word, "cockadoody"

"I just want to go to church"

We asked for a table, we got a music stand. sigh

when you don't have a crew, often, your  DP must also hold the reflector.

I tried to look douchebaggy but ended up looking a lot like my dad...which depressed the hell out of me

Annie Wild as Lucy (#387)

this is how swans kiss....

intensely directing.

Ms. Wild

Nathan Gregory as Brother Bill

blue steel?

whaaaa????

this makes it look like a sessy scene, but alas it was just microphone placement.

prepping for a smokin' take

yes. picture goes there.

Singing amazing grace just before the dude from the studio informed us there was no singing allowed...f**k you very much, Shetler.

funny director quip? NAILED it.

this is my patented "der" look.

too sessy?