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Untitled (Thanks. Get in...) Video by James Fotopoulos, Written by Raymond Pettibon

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Untitled (Thanks. Get in...)

Dashing leading man of the forties picks up a stag model hitchhiker on the Boulevard one night in West Hollywood during the 1960s. The conversation as they get stuck in traffic involves the young model’s recognizing the star, asking advice and triggering a psychedelic discourse on acting for the camera and the metaphysics of fame on the big screen.

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CAST
David Nordstrom ... Lance
David Zellner ... The Actor

LIGHTING
James Graham

SOUND MIXING AND SOUND EFFECTS
Nate Archer

THANKS
Jason Byrne
Chris Wagganer and Family
Trevor Groth

PRODUCERS
Joe Carducci
James Fotopoulos
Mike Plante

SCREENPLAY
Raymond Pettibon

VIDEO
James Fotopoulos

Shot: Los Angeles, CA.

Thermidor Releasing 2011

James Fotopoulos

The film and video work of James Fotopoulos has been shown internationally at many festivals and sites including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the New York Underground Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival, the Walker Art Center and the Andy Warhol Museum, among others. In 1998 Fotopoulos founded Fantasma, Inc. for the production of his second feature film Migrating Forms (1999). In 2002 he had a retrospective at Anthology Film Archives and was exhibited in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. In 2005 he received a Creative Capital Grant for his in-progress interdisciplinary epic on the life of Richard Nixon, published the first of many books of drawings The Lime Book, and completed an installation for the 2005 Contour Biennial for Video Art. In 2006 with Grove Press founder Barney Rosset he created an experimental video biography on Rosset and an adaptation of an unpublished screenplay by Eugene Ionesco, of which the latter premiered at the New York Museum of Modern Art. In 2008 he directed a video based on a screenplay by artist Raymond Pettibon. He currently resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His most recent piece is a feature length video and 245 drawing adaptation of the 1886 Henry Saville Clark and Walter Slaughter musical Alice in Wonderland (2010).

Raymond Pettibon

The ink drawings with text of Raymond Pettibon constitute one of the most distinctive and influential graphic voices to have surfaced since the early 1980s when he began showing his work in Los Angeles at Zero gallery, LACE, and in "Helter Skelter - LA Art in the 1990's" at MCA. Through the 1990's Pettibon has shown his work in galleries and museums in Europe and Tokyo as well as in New York in the 1993 and 1997 Whitney Biennials, and at the Drawing Center. He has also made videos, performed in a band, published booklets, and written screenplays. He currently lives in Venice, California.

David Zellner

David Zellner is one-half of The Zellner Brothers from Texas. Along with Nathan, the Bros have made tons of short films and features, including the recent epic "Goliath." Both write, direct and act. Their films have played every year at Sundance since 2003, including this year's "Sasquatch Birth Journal 2," a found footage documentary.

David Nordstrom

David Nordstrom is from Wisconsin. He has been a construction worker, dishwasher, farmhand, and wedding DJ. Also a prolific actor, he starred in "Analog Days," "Littlerock" and "Trona," and has just written and directed his first feature, "Sawdust City."

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