Goblim Showers

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The first friday of every month at 6:00pm: a sentence is announced as the theme of the project.

Each team will create a motion picture based on that sentence.

Sunday, Midnight: deadline. each team's movie is submitted.

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Andy Beckerman
Age: 27
Location: Filthadelphia
Why I'm doing this: In order to overload my life with
creative endeavors to make up for what grad school has stolen from me.
Filmmaking: In high school I mostly made films for school
(although I wrote plenty of other shitty sketches that I never filmed) including one for my German class so nonsensical that the teacher had to add a new rule in the next year that the film had to make sense (The project was to make a soap opera and each person had to speak 100 words of German. As each person hit their hundred words, an Indian shot them with an arrow). I also directed my Latin class's remake of The Three Amigos. Prior to Wrestling Team, my only collegiate movie making was a short film of Sketch Show-like vignettes that I projected behind the band I was in once while we played. Currently Mark and I are working on a script for a cartoon and have just finished the second Wrestling Team DVD.
Equipment: I have some Panasonic DV-cam with 3 chips that I've used to film my cats and that Mark and I used to make a failed sketch about Jeff Foxworthy as a psychic, Groucho Marx as his friend and the apocalypse. I use mostly Final Cut and Live Type. I have a shitty microphone taped to a swiffer handle to use as a boom mic and a nice lavalier which can be clipped to one's lapel.

Five Vignettes in Search of a Job

sentence: Music On Hold to be Replaced with Series of "Beeps"

team: Goblim Showers

My latest 54 Hour Film Project movie coincided with the weekend I was supposed to make some shorts for a youtube-like site in the hopes of getting a job making original content for them. A friend that works there thought it would help me get a job if I made videos specifically for the site. Since this site isn't youtube, they get people to create content by having contests, so I made a few videos corresponding to the contests. One was to re-do an urban legend; another was to show characters on the Sopranos saying things they'd never normally say; the last was something about what would you do if you were king. So that's why my film this month is five short vignettes (and all filmed and shot and edited within 54 hours...compression took forever though). I usually don't like playing character mash-up like I did in some of these, but those were the constraints of the contests, so you get to see my early-SNL-looking Tony Soprano. (think Chevy Chase as Gerald Ford).

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published on May 7, 2007 - 12:16

Cooking by the Book

sentence: Are we dancin' or what?

team: Goblim Showers

love, peace and chicken grease to stfu n00b

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published on January 10, 2007 - 19:49

Grape Expectations

sentence: Some things have to be believed to be seen.

team: Goblim Showers

A young boy finds a magical rock in the woods, and it solves all his problems...or does it?

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published on August 6, 2006 - 23:00

A Historicity of Violence

sentence: These alternatives are both easier for you whilst giving you the same or better results.

team: Goblim Showers

My friend Eric and I made a comic for an anthology in Pittsburgh named Unicorn Mountain. Here, I recontextualize it and add some other media. The aesthetic is changed in a weird way. It's definitely more uncomprehensible, but it also gains some interesting facets. That sounds way more pretentious than I mean it to be.

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published on July 9, 2006 - 23:00

Alterities: The Michel Foucault Story

sentence: Give me a little time to enjoy the dream.

team: Goblim Showers

In the vein of Derrida, the documentary that layed bare the machinations of the greatest post-Heideggarian philosopher, this too will reveal the real Foucault

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published on March 5, 2006 - 23:00

The Elegant Universe

sentence: I find that no exertion of the legs brings my mind and theirs any closer together.

team: Goblim Showers

Professor Whiskers had a seizure this week. After rushing him to the hospital, the source of the seizure was not discovered, but he was found to have a stage three heart murmur. This has the possibility of being controlled with a daily quarter-pill of atenolol.

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published on September 4, 2005 - 23:00

Untitled Woody Allen Project

sentence: She looked fearfully round, her face burning like sunset, and, seeing nobody, stooped to pick up the flaccid lumps

team: Goblim Showers

Not only do I get to exorcise my Woody Allen demons, but I also get to exercise my muscleings. Think Woody Allen done by Stella. Or the prequel to the Wrestling Team movie. WARNING: We have spoiled the new Harry Potter book. And the 5th one too, I think. If you haven't read either of them, and want to in the future, do not watch this film.

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published on August 7, 2005 - 23:00