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Carey Burtt
Carey Burtt is a filmmaker and musician based in New York City, mainly working in the underground genre. Films Known for their disturbing humor and dark narratives, the films of Carey Burtt include ''The Psychotic Odyssey of Richard Chase'' and ''The Death of Sex'', both featured in the second edition of Jack Sargeant's book ''Deathtripping: The Cinema of Transgression''. ''Psychotic Odyssey'' is distributed by the cult production company Troma Entertainment in its "Best of Tromadance Vol. 1" DVD. It was also featured in Other Cinema's Experiments in Terror video exhibition. Burtt's 1999 short ''Mind Control Made Easy or How to Become a Cult Leader'' was featured in the 2005 Hell on Reels: Astoria Moving Image Festival and enjoyed audience praise. An instructional film outlining the techniques used by destructive cults, ''Mind Control'' was also featured on Supersphere.com where it received an audience award. Fragments from ''Mind Control'' have been used by Flying Lotus' alter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Sargeant (writer)
Jack Sargeant (born 1968) is a British writer specializing in cult film, underground film, and independent film, as well as subcultures, true crime, and other aspects of the unusual. In addition he is a film programmer, curator, academic and photographer. He has appeared in underground films and performances. He currently lives in Australia. Career Since 1995 Sargeant has written and contributed to numerous books on underground film, including: ''Deathtripping: The Cinema of Transgression'', about Cinema of Transgression filmmakers such as Richard Kern and Nick Zedd, ''Naked Lens: Beat Cinema'', and ''Cinema Contra Cinema'', a collection of essays on alternative film. In 2007 ''Deathtripping'' was republished by Soft Skull Press, this was followed by a re-printing of ''Naked Lens: Beat Cinema'' in 2008. Sargeant is the editor of the journal ''Suture'', and has co-edited the books ''Lost Highways: An Illustrated History of the Road Movie'' (with Stephanie Watson) and ''No Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Troma
Troma Entertainment is an American independent film production and distribution company founded by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz in 1974. The company produces low-budget independent films, primarily of the horror comedy genre. Many of them play on 1950s horror with elements of farce, parody, gore and splatter. In 2012, the company officially released many of its films on YouTube. However, their YouTube channel was eventually terminated for not meeting community standards. Troma has produced, acquired and distributed over 1,000 independent films since its creation. Its slogan in 2014 was "40 years of Disrupting Media". Another slogan the company has used is "Movies of the Future." The company also has its own streaming service called Troma Now. Company information Troma films are B-movies known for their surrealistic or automatistic nature, along with their use of shocking imagery; some would categorize them as "shock exploitation films". They typically contain overt sexuali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flying Lotus
Steven Ellison (born October 7, 1983), known by his stage name Flying Lotus or sometimes FlyLo, is an American record producer, Disc jockey, DJ, filmmaker and rapper from Los Angeles. He is also the founder of the record label Brainfeeder. Flying Lotus has released seven studio albums''1983 (album), 1983'' (2006), ''Los Angeles (Flying Lotus album), Los Angeles'' (2008), ''Cosmogramma'' (2010), ''Until the Quiet Comes'' (2012), ''You're Dead!'' (2014), ''Flamagra'' (2019) and ''Yasuke (Flying Lotus album), Yasuke'' (2021)to critical acclaim. He has produced much of the bumper music on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block. He also contributed remixes for fellow Plug Research artists including Mia Doi Todd. In 2012, Flying Lotus began rapping under the persona Captain Murphy, based on the ''Sealab 2021'' character of the same name. Ellison kept this fact a secret for several months, finally revealing his identity several weeks after the release of his first rap mixtape: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duality (Captain Murphy Album)
''Duality'' (stylized as ''DU∆LITY'') is the debut mixtape from Captain Murphy, the animated rapper alter-ego of experimental musician Flying Lotus. It was initially released as a 34-minute short film featuring songs performed by Murphy as well as archived cult footage (including footage involving Heaven's Gate co-founder Marshall Applewhite), pornography, cartoons and 1980s films. A deluxe edition was released for download on November 28, 2012, with tracks separated, as well as bonus tracks and instrumentals. Background Captain Murphy first appeared over the summer of 2012 on the Flying Lotus-produced track "Between Friends" for the 2012 Adult Swim Singles Program. The track also featured Odd Future's Earl Sweatshirt trading verses with Murphy. Speculation began to arise that Murphy was either Tyler, The Creator, Earl Sweatshirt, Flying Lotus, or a combination of the three due to the frequent pitch shifts in vocals. Between July and September 2012, Murphy released severa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James DiGiovanna
James DiGiovanna is a film reviewer and filmmaker, and the author of a number of published short stories. Together with Bob Grimm and Colin Boyd, he was one of three cinema writers on the staff of ''Tucson Weekly''.Masthead ''Tucson Weekly'' He is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Education DiGiovanna received his PhD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2001."Stony Brook Philosophy Doctorates, Dissertations, and Degree Dates"SUNY Stony Brook website His doctoral thesis, ''Ethics and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston Underground Film Festival
The Boston Underground Film Festival (BUFF) is an annual event held in the Boston area that specializes in alternative film and video. BUFF is the largest underground film festival in New England, spotlighting short films and feature-length films that would not otherwise find an audience. It was the only film festival in the world to give an award for "Most Effectively Offensive" films, an accolade it awarded from its inception until 2017; on the festival's twentieth anniversary, the award was retired and replaced with "Best First Feature Film," marking a shifting focus towards celebrating new voices in filmmaking. Despite the festival's title, BUFF has not taken place in Boston proper since 2003. The 2004 festival was held mainly in Arlington, Massachusetts. In 2005, BUFF was held entirely in Somerville, Massachusetts. From 2006 on, BUFF has taken place entirely in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Although BUFF, as an organization, has hosted year round programming at various Boston ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Schnabel
Julian Schnabel (born October 26, 1951) is an American painter and filmmaker. In the 1980s, he received international attention for his "plate paintings" — with broken ceramic plates set onto large-scale paintings. Since the 1990s, he has been a proponent of independent arthouse cinema. Schnabel directed ''Before Night Falls'', which became Javier Bardem's breakthrough Academy Award-nominated role, and '' The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'', which was nominated for four Academy Awards. For the latter, he won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director and the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, as well as receiving nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director and the César Award for Best Director. Biography Early life and education Schnabel was born in Brooklyn, New York to a Jewish family, the son of Esta (née Greenberg) and Jack Schnabel. He moved with his family to Brownsville, Texas in 1965. He received his B.F.A. at the University of Houston. After graduati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Every Silver Lining Has A Cloud
''Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud'' is an album by painter Julian Schnabel, recorded in 1993 and released in 1995 on Island Records. The majority of the album was written by Schnabel himself with most lyrics dealing with love. The recording personnel included Bill Laswell and his frequent collaborators Buckethead, Bernie Worrell, Nicky Skopelitis and Anton Fier. The release received mixed reviews. Track listing All lyrics by Julian Schnabel; except track 13 Personnel *Julian Schnabel - organ, piano, vocals, backing vocals *Bernie Worrell - organ, piano, backing vocals * Julian Bernard Fowler - piano, backing vocals on "I Tried" and "When I Was Young" *Gary Oldman - piano, vocals on "When I Was Young", voices on "Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud" *Ted Daniel - flugelhorn on "Juan Belmonte" *Buckethead - guitar, backing vocals * Carey Burtt - guitar on "I Wanna Take You Home" and "It's Great to Be Nine" *Brian Kelly - soprano guitar on "The Night We Met", guitar on "Carey Came B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Island Records
Island Records is a multinational record label owned by Universal Music Group. It was founded in 1959 by Chris Blackwell, Graeme Goodall, and Leslie Kong in Jamaica, and was eventually sold to PolyGram in 1989. Island and A&M Records, another label recently acquired by PolyGram, were both at the time the largest independent record labels in history, with Island having exerted a major influence on the progressive music scene in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s. Island Records operates four international divisions: Island US, Island UK, Island Australia, and Island France (known as Vertigo France until 2014). Current key people include Island US president Darcus Beese, OBE and MD Jon Turner. Partially due to its significant legacy, Island remains one of UMG's pre-eminent record labels. Artists who have signed to Island Records include Bob Marley, Nick Drake, Queen, Jethro Tull, Grace Jones, Steve Winwood, King Crimson, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Brian Eno, Demi Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Filmmakers
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musicians From New York City
A musician is a person who composes, conducts, or performs music. According to the United States Employment Service, "musician" is a general term used to designate one who follows music as a profession. Musicians include songwriters who write both music and lyrics for songs, conductors who direct a musical performance, or performers who perform for an audience. A music performer is generally either a singer who provides vocals or an instrumentalist who plays a musical instrument. Musicians may perform on their own or as part of a group, band or orchestra. Musicians specialize in a musical style, and some musicians play in a variety of different styles depending on cultures and background. A musician who records and releases music can be known as a recording artist. Types Composer A composer is a musician who creates musical compositions. The title is principally used for those who write classical music or film music. Those who write the music for popular songs may be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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