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Out of Print and Unavailable
Exhibits 1-7 (2009)
This is a more experimental project I did – the idea is that it could be treated as 7 separate pieces, or watched from start to finish as one feature length movie, depending on what the viewer has in mind.
Each of the 7 “exhibits” has a different theme. The first one is a very slow, atmospheric movie of a lot of different things happening in the Catskill mountains that’s set to about an hour of guitar instrumentals I made when I was there that summer. Some of the others have a similar pace, like the one that takes place in Virginia and plays a bit with this low-resolution fisheye footage that barely looks like a video – it looks more like a very blurry painting.
Some of them are a lot more fast-paced – there’s one that I filmed in Puerto Rico in 2005, which includes a POV shot of me falling off a cliff (this was not intentional).
Another one of the exhibits is a very long series of outtakes from the making of The Scarf, edited together as if this is supposed to be the movie – there are a lot of bits where it seems like we’re all deliberately driving each other mad, and no one knows what we’re doing.
This way of editing it was kind of a play on my own neuroses – in real life, the making of the The Scarf was surprisingly not that disorganized, considering I was 8 years old when we started making it and none of us had ever made a movie before except for Nat, a film student at NYU who played the talking tree – but he was only on set for a couple of the filming days.
The main reason for this project was for a kind of catharsis, to really get a lot of different stuff out of my system so I had the psychic space to make new music and short films – it was more like a way of vomiting out all these different things so I could make something more coherent after that. Some of the “exhibits” came out surprisingly well – I might reissue some of them in the future.
from Out of Print and Unavailable Filmography (as Jesse Statman)
8PM in New York City (2011)
Band Forever: Live @ Perch Cafe (2011)
Cannonball’s Party (2010)
A Place That Doesn’t Exist (2009)
Exhibits 1-7 (2009)
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