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J Roland Kelly is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and singer-songwriter. In 2010 his film ''Sleeping with Charlie Kaufman'' was an official selection of the Rome International Film Festival and nominated for a Charles B. Pierce Award. In 2004 he released an album of spoken word poetry entitled ''J Roland Kelly, Stop Your Nursing Unless You're Rendering Fun'' followed by ''J Roland Kelly Taunts the Process ...into Attacking'' in 2008, and on January 20, 2009—the last day of the Bush presidency—he released the single ''J Roland Kelly Marshals Against Karl Rove''. In the promotional lead up to ''J Roland Kelly, Stop Your Nursing Unless You're Rendering Fun'' he released a series of short films including ''Music Video'', ''Billfold'', and ''It Just Happens that Way''. This experience led to him reworking a group of short films he made in adolescence to produce ''Dinosaur!'' which screened at film festivals in the spring of 2005. In 2009 after the release of ''J Roland Kelly Marshals Against Karl Rove'' he began work on ''Sleeping with Charlie Kaufman'' and in an interview with ''BeingCharlieKaufman.com'', J Roland Kelly states that he created the film in homage to Charlie Kaufman because he was inspired by early drafts of Kaufman's screenplays that he himself had read when he first started screenwriting. In an interview with Xtranormal, J Roland Kelly describes ''Sleeping with Charlie Kaufman'' as "...basically this absurd, funny conversation between a guy and his girlfriend. He tells her he fantasizes about her twin sister, but she doesn't have a twin sister, so it's just another way of fantasizing about her… and is she offended. t draws onsome La Nouvelle Vague & Mumblecore elements from the kind of films I was watching at the time." ''Sleeping with Charlie Kaufman'' held its premiere on June 3, 2010 at the Little Rock Film Festival.


Filmography

*''Prison Break'' (1989) *''A Boy Named Chad'' (1989) *''Music Video'' (2004) *''Billfold'' (2004) *''Just Happens that Way'' (2004) *''Dinosaur!'' (2005) *''
Sleeping with Charlie Kaufman ''Sleeping with Charlie Kaufman'' is a 2010 American short animated comedy film created by J Roland Kelly using Xtranormal. It held its premiere on June 3, 2010 at the Little Rock Film Festival, where it was one of the contenders for the Charles B ...
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Discography

*''J Roland Kelly, Stop Your Nursing Unless You're Rendering Fun'' (2004) *''J Roland Kelly Taunts the Process ...into Attacking'' (2008) *''J Roland Kelly Marshals Against Karl Rove (Single)'' (2009)''J Roland Kelly Marshals Against Karl Rove'' at Yahoo! Music
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Charlie Kaufman Charles Stuart Kaufman (; born November 19, 1958) is an American filmmaker and novelist. He wrote the films ''Being John Malkovich'' (1999), ''Adaptation'' (2002), and ''Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'' (2004). He made his directorial de ...
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Surreal humor Surreal humour (also called surreal comedy, absurdist humour, or absurdist comedy) is a form of humour predicated on deliberate violations of causality, causal reasoning, thus producing events and behaviours that are obviously illogical. Portrayal ...
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Mumblecore Mumblecore is a subgenre of independent filmHoberman, J. (August 14, 2007).It's Mumblecore!. ''The Village Voice''. Retrieved on July 27, 2008.Lim, Dennis (August 19, 2007)Mumblecore – The New Talkies: Generation DIY ''The New York Times''. Retr ...
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French New Wave French New Wave (french: La Nouvelle Vague) is a French art film movement that emerged in the late 1950s. The movement was characterized by its rejection of traditional filmmaking conventions in favor of experimentation and a spirit of iconocla ...


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kelly, J Roland American animators American animated film directors American animated film producers American experimental filmmakers American male screenwriters American film directors American film producers American film editors American male singer-songwriters Living people Singer-songwriters from Arkansas Screenwriters from Arkansas Year of birth missing (living people)