Short of the DayFrom writer-director Zach Fleming
Okay, so I’m not entirely sure just what’s going on in Zach Fleming’s Staycation, but I am 150% sure that I love it. Fleming has taken elements of comedy, romance, and drama and woven them into a narratively experimental short film that isn’t quite horror but comes damn close in the most intriguing, intelligent, and subversive ways.
An unnamed man (Rob Malone) visits New York City. His girlfriend was supposed to come with him but she’s not there. But she’s kinda there. Or at least some woman (Joanna Arnow) is, but the man can’t see her. She can see him, though. And her throat is open.
The story of Staycation occurs entirely within the Air bnb the man has taken for his stay, which gives the film a sense of forbiddenness, this space that’s his but not really his, and...
Okay, so I’m not entirely sure just what’s going on in Zach Fleming’s Staycation, but I am 150% sure that I love it. Fleming has taken elements of comedy, romance, and drama and woven them into a narratively experimental short film that isn’t quite horror but comes damn close in the most intriguing, intelligent, and subversive ways.
An unnamed man (Rob Malone) visits New York City. His girlfriend was supposed to come with him but she’s not there. But she’s kinda there. Or at least some woman (Joanna Arnow) is, but the man can’t see her. She can see him, though. And her throat is open.
The story of Staycation occurs entirely within the Air bnb the man has taken for his stay, which gives the film a sense of forbiddenness, this space that’s his but not really his, and...
- 4/25/2017
- by H. Perry Horton
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Big business, snapping fingers, and nationalistic freak-outs are just a few of the highlights in the trailer for the new micro-budget film "Slackjaw," which premieres at this year's iteration of the Locarno International Film Festival. Front and center of Zach Weintraub's new film is "The Chris Gethard Show" regular Robert Malone and behind the camera is the director's regular, brilliant collaborator, Nandan Rao ("Green," "Hawaiian Punch"). Take a peek at the synopsis: A mildly absurd bromantic dramedy about the path to personal responsibility amidst the divisive fog of a politicized landscape. For the uninitiated, Zach's been at it for awhile, notching four films on his belt since 2010. His first, "Bummer Summer," chronicles a love triangle and is especially notable for being one of the very few films in a sea of many to get young love, longing, and ennui right. The fourth film, "You Make Me Feel So Young,...
- 7/22/2015
- by Christopher Bell
- The Playlist
Winner of the Spirit of Slamdance award at, you guessed it, this year's Slamdance Film Festival, The Greggs asks a simple question: Where do standardized tests come from?The answer is far sillier, far wackier, and far more frightening than one would think. And that's all thanks to the rather brilliant comedy stylings of Bruce Bundy, Nigel DeFriez, Jessie Levandov, Rob Malone, Alex Mechanik, Kira Pearson & Jonathan Rosenblit. With such a gaggle one would expect something as such anyway.So the good news is that indie-champion site NoBudge is hosting the online premiere of the short film, which means you can go there right now and delight in all things Gregg. ...
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- 6/29/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Factory 25 has acquired world rights to writer-director-editor Sophia Takal’s “Green,” which won the Chicken & Egg Award at the SXSW Film Festival in 2011. The specialty distributor has scheduled a September 7 theatrical release in New York and Chicago, followed by a VOD release in November. “Green” explores the roots and results of jealousy in the story of a New Yorker who moves to the country with her boyfriend and how their relationship is changed by the friendships they each develop with a blue-collar local girl. Kate Lyn Sheil, Takal, Lawrence Michael Levine, Louis Cancelmi, Alex Ross Perry and Robert Malone star. Lawrence Michael Levine produced; Matthew L. Weiss and Robert Malone co-produced. Read Eric Kohn’s review from SXSW Brooklyn-based Factory 25 has recently released “The Color Wheel,” “The Oregonian,” “Convento” and “Until The Light Takes Us.” Forthcoming...
- 8/10/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- Indiewire
Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek
(from the 2011 South by Southwest Film Festival)
Directed/Written by: Sophia Takal
Starring: Lawrence Michael Levine, Kate Lyn Sheil and Sophia Takal
After the first two minutes of “Green” — in which a relationship is on display at a Brooklyn party where its duo fight over literary masters for the position of first peacock — one worries this is a film set squarely at alienating everyone other than Noah Baumbach or a brother Coen.
Cut to Sebastian (Lawrence Michael Levine) and Genevieve (Kate Lyn Sheil) arriving at a country house in the midst of nature, alone and less argumentative, soon naked and searching each other for tick bites. Cue a knock on the door: A neighbor, Robin (the film’s helmer, Sophia Takal), arrives drunk and smoking pot on their doorstep. Takal’s boastfully uneducated Robin proceeds to make herself at home in the couple’s company,...
(from the 2011 South by Southwest Film Festival)
Directed/Written by: Sophia Takal
Starring: Lawrence Michael Levine, Kate Lyn Sheil and Sophia Takal
After the first two minutes of “Green” — in which a relationship is on display at a Brooklyn party where its duo fight over literary masters for the position of first peacock — one worries this is a film set squarely at alienating everyone other than Noah Baumbach or a brother Coen.
Cut to Sebastian (Lawrence Michael Levine) and Genevieve (Kate Lyn Sheil) arriving at a country house in the midst of nature, alone and less argumentative, soon naked and searching each other for tick bites. Cue a knock on the door: A neighbor, Robin (the film’s helmer, Sophia Takal), arrives drunk and smoking pot on their doorstep. Takal’s boastfully uneducated Robin proceeds to make herself at home in the couple’s company,...
- 3/15/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek
(from the 2011 South by Southwest Film Festival)
Directed/Written by: Sophia Takal
Starring: Lawrence Michael Levine, Kate Lyn Sheil and Sophia Takal
After the first two minutes of “Green” — in which a relationship is on display at a Brooklyn party where its duo fight over literary masters for the position of first peacock — one worries this is a film set squarely at alienating everyone other than Noah Baumbach or a brother Coen.
Cut to Sebastian (Lawrence Michael Levine) and Genevieve (Kate Lyn Sheil) arriving at a country house in the midst of nature, alone and less argumentative, soon naked and searching each other for tick bites. Cue a knock on the door: A neighbor, Robin (the film’s helmer, Sophia Takal), arrives drunk and smoking pot on their doorstep. Takal’s boastfully uneducated Robin proceeds to make herself at home in the couple’s company,...
(from the 2011 South by Southwest Film Festival)
Directed/Written by: Sophia Takal
Starring: Lawrence Michael Levine, Kate Lyn Sheil and Sophia Takal
After the first two minutes of “Green” — in which a relationship is on display at a Brooklyn party where its duo fight over literary masters for the position of first peacock — one worries this is a film set squarely at alienating everyone other than Noah Baumbach or a brother Coen.
Cut to Sebastian (Lawrence Michael Levine) and Genevieve (Kate Lyn Sheil) arriving at a country house in the midst of nature, alone and less argumentative, soon naked and searching each other for tick bites. Cue a knock on the door: A neighbor, Robin (the film’s helmer, Sophia Takal), arrives drunk and smoking pot on their doorstep. Takal’s boastfully uneducated Robin proceeds to make herself at home in the couple’s company,...
- 3/15/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
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