2010 Chicago Underground Film Festival: Call For Entries
The 17th annual Chicago Underground Film Festival has officially put out the call for entries and, having moved the fest up by several months from last year’s edition, the final deadline isn’t very far away at all. It’s in about a month, less for the early deadline. So, get your films in stat! Let’s get right to it. Here’s the deadlines:
Early Deadline:
March 1
$30
Late Deadline:
March 15
$40
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Echo Park Film Center: Mock Up On Mu
Feb. 11
8:00 p.m.
Echo Park Film Center
1200 N. Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd)
Los Angeles, CA
Hosted by: Other Cinema
San Francisco underground filmmaker Craig Baldwin will attend this special screening of his latest magnum opus, the genuinely epic collage narrative Mock Up on Mu.
Mock Up on Mu has more going on in it per square inch than any other film ever made. It is also the most in-depth futuristic history of the weird state of California. L. Ron Hubbard (Damon Packard) is planning to build a resort on the moon called Mu, but to initiate the project he must dispatch Agent C (Michelle Silva) to convince an amnesiac Jack Parsons (Kalman Spelletich) and Lockheed Martin (Stoney Burke) to build a rocket launchpad in Las Vegas.
Full Film Online: Heavy Metal Parking Lot
Here it is! The original bootlegged underground classic is now officially available for viewing online: The one, the only, the head-bangingly awesome Heavy Metal Parking Lot by John Heyn and Jeff Krulik. Available only as a 100th generation bootlegs for years, the entire film -- which only runs about 17 minutes -- can now be watched on Hulu. Or, embedded right above! For the first time or the thousandth, witness the glory and wonder that was 1986.
New Edition! Frederick C. Wiebel Jr.’s “Edison’s Frankenstein”
Author and film historian Frederick C. Wiebel Jr. has recently reissued a new edition of his book Edison’s Frankenstein, which covers the making of the world’s first horror movie and the efforts to find and restore the film. The book is published by BearManor Media and can be bought at Amazon or directly from the author, as well as other book outlets.
Produced at Thomas Edison’s Bronx-based studio, Frankenstein runs about twelve minutes long and was written and directed by J. Searle Dawley. The film, which you can watch in its entirety below, consists of a couple basic scenes shot on very few sets that focuses more on the drama — actually, more like melodrama — than on the horrific elements of Mary Shelley’s original novel.
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