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Used
clothing documentaryHanna Rose Shell and I are working on Secondhand (Pepe) into film festivals. It's a 24 minute experimental documentary video about the history of used clothing and the immigrant experience.
We found a 300ft ship full of used junk that sails back and forth between an East Boston shipyard and Haiti. Three years later, we finally got down there to see the other side. We've shot at vintage stores in Cambridge, with a 4th-generation rag dealer in Baltimore, sorting factories in Brooklyn and Miami. Hanna even went to Petticoat Lane in London.
The film weaves together the memoir of a Jewish rag peddler and, through a Haitian radio show, the etymological history of the Haitian Creole word for secondhand clothing—"pepe."
We'ce won a couple awards from the festivals we've been in and we're really excited! We posted my and Hanna's photos from Haiti on flickr.
| The
Making of The Salon is a 10-minute overview of the steps my brother,
cartoonist Nick Bertozzi, went through to create his graphic novel The
Salon. Nick did the music and shooting/editing is by yours truly. |
And
then I made a snappy little trailer. |
I make
lots of little movies for the Etsy Storque! Please visit our Youtube
channel.
I'm finishing Vintage Dancers, a documentary that came out of
Hanna Rose Shell and my work on Secondhand (Pepe). We met the
Pugliese family and initally filmed with them because of their interest
in antique clothing.
They soon proved too interesting themselves and merited their own film. Vintage Dancers is a glimpse into the reenactor lifestyle of research, sewing, folk dance and martial arts...as well as inside jokes. It's also a family portrait.
My friends and I appear in Andrew Bujalski's film Funny Ha Ha. Andrew's movie has become quite a little hit and has won awards at film festivals, shown on IFC and the Sundance Channel. My mom called me up the other day to tell me that my middle school gym teacher saw me on TV. This is more 15minutes of fame than I bargained for. Andrew failed to cast me in his new movie, Mutual Appreciation. However, my Brooklyn apartment serves as a set. Thanks a lot for not plugging my fridge back in, Andrew. All roads in Somerville and other Boston suburbs lead to Cassavetes.
Sabina starred as a gnome in a top-secret project that came out July 2002...It was a rock opera called Vanitas Temporum, and Sabina was miraculously transformed. Nick and I wrote, animated, and performed in this Flash animated piece. Kim, Bill, and Gabe Soria also sing delightfully.
I scraped together enough money to get a print of my thesis film. Between is a sad story featuring Julia and Bill and various tricked-out fireflies and kitties. It screened in the fall of 2003 at the Tank in NYC.
Some of my old friends may remember my Mullet film. I'm looking for a photo of that atrocity to post here.
Bill, Megan, and I were in Luke Fischbeck's Harvard thesis film Sleep through Me.
Ah, yes. And then there is AnitRa Menning's film Scab Glam in which I play a disgusting and crusty Scab Whore.
Handsome Animals the documentary we made about taxidermy in first year film class. An experience that will never be forgotten.
They soon proved too interesting themselves and merited their own film. Vintage Dancers is a glimpse into the reenactor lifestyle of research, sewing, folk dance and martial arts...as well as inside jokes. It's also a family portrait.
My friends and I appear in Andrew Bujalski's film Funny Ha Ha. Andrew's movie has become quite a little hit and has won awards at film festivals, shown on IFC and the Sundance Channel. My mom called me up the other day to tell me that my middle school gym teacher saw me on TV. This is more 15minutes of fame than I bargained for. Andrew failed to cast me in his new movie, Mutual Appreciation. However, my Brooklyn apartment serves as a set. Thanks a lot for not plugging my fridge back in, Andrew. All roads in Somerville and other Boston suburbs lead to Cassavetes.
Sabina starred as a gnome in a top-secret project that came out July 2002...It was a rock opera called Vanitas Temporum, and Sabina was miraculously transformed. Nick and I wrote, animated, and performed in this Flash animated piece. Kim, Bill, and Gabe Soria also sing delightfully.
I scraped together enough money to get a print of my thesis film. Between is a sad story featuring Julia and Bill and various tricked-out fireflies and kitties. It screened in the fall of 2003 at the Tank in NYC.
Some of my old friends may remember my Mullet film. I'm looking for a photo of that atrocity to post here.
Bill, Megan, and I were in Luke Fischbeck's Harvard thesis film Sleep through Me.
Ah, yes. And then there is AnitRa Menning's film Scab Glam in which I play a disgusting and crusty Scab Whore.
Handsome Animals the documentary we made about taxidermy in first year film class. An experience that will never be forgotten.