DEN FØRPAGTER HÜS





The multi-award-winning entry for 2006. Which awards, you ask? Audience favorite, best use of genre, and best song — which was indeed quite good, performed by the excellent Hickories.

The required elements were a fire extinguisher (prop), the line of dialogue was “This is absolutely the last time,” and the character was Tim Tate, gay glass sculptor extraordinaire. Tim is actually a real guy and quite the glass sculptor. He won the rights to have his good name and reputation besmirched cruelly for this contest. And good sport, he sat through every screening and handed out the awards.

The genre was foreign film and based on my reading of the script, I think we made up a country. It was supposed to be in Danish, ala Ingmar Bergman. Who is, of course, Swedish. For clarification, please visit the Swiss, Swedish, Danish or Dutch? page.

48 HOURS TO ROMANCE

The would-be award winner from 2004, if only someone had written the mandatory line of dialogue down correctly. There were also technical challenges, owing to someone else not realizing that a needed machine was unplugged. Anyway, Wes Johnson and Shari Elliker prove once again that they are indeed the King and Queen of comedy, and not necessarily in that order.





MR. COMEDY

The non-award-winning entry from 2007. I’m most disappointed for the lack of recognition to sultry songbird Jette Kelly, who composed the haunting theme song at the end. Jette took my slight description of Pat Carroll’s character in the piece (as yet unwritten), and managed to capture the mournful essense perfectly. The song plays perfectly to the video. It’s like we planned it or something.





A MATTER OF EVIDENCE

Made for the 2005 48 Hour Film Project, this was shot with my $200 digital still camera. I liked the idea of going low-tech against teams armed with state-of-the-art gear and, like, actual crews and actors and stuff. And we woulda won some kind of award if our editor hadn’t vanished. Sigh. Such is art….

As with all 48 Hour films, there were required elements we had to include: A character (”R. Melloring”), a prop (wine bottle), line of dialogue (”It was like that when I got here”), and the genre we picked out of a hat was “detective.”





SHAKESPEARE vs. THE MONSTERS

The 2001 entry. Our genre was horror, fortunately for us. The prop was a colander (odd, I know), the line of dialogue was “It’s all your fault,” and the character was Ignacio Del Fuego, cabdriver. See how seamlessly we weave them in. Or not.

Enjoy.