Performers: Lizzy Yoder + Simone Butler
Editor Sandra Montiel
Cinematographer Alice Millar
Musical Arrangement Nick Demopoulos
Singer Lizzy Yoder
Subtitles from the novel:
"The Living and the Dead" English Translation 1956
Original Vertigo Theme Song 1958
Jay Livingston/Billy Eckstein
Additional Footage: Public domain images
Project Description:
Entr'acte is a video art project based on Hitchcock's much-analyzed film Vertigo. An introverted look at an agoraphobic man's obsession with a fictitious woman - Madeleine. Entr'acte, the interval between two acts of a theatrical performance, features two Madeleines on the verge of vertigo. A humorous and haunting homage to Hitchcock's conflicted heroine Madeleine. Using original lyrics from the never released Vertigo theme song recorded by Billy Eckstein in 1958, the song is re-imagined as a darker, electrified torch song performed by singer Lizzy Yoder.
Shot on a digital camera with vintage lens, this musical mash-up is a fetishization of Hitchcock's Madeleine. By layering the images, text and music I create two versions of Madeleine; one dressed in a dark dress/white coat/black scarf with the other in a severe grey suit. Within the video are clips of public domain stag films that play off the various personas of Madeleine. Subtitles create the voyeur's obsessive narrative voice. Entr'acte also works with some of the underlying themes found in Vertigo - loss, voyeurism, possession, duality, obsession, passion and perception. A short experimental work on the notion of projecting onto others what you want to see.
Producer & Editor Christine Giorgio, Cinematographer: Peter Howell. Featuring: Mot Filipowski, Michael Abbott Jr., Simone Butler, Steve Jean-Baptiste, Ben Greenman, Cosmo Pfeil and Julie Strong.
Ben Greenman and Erika Yeomans team up to create a dark parody on Britney Spears and the Industry of Gossip. New Yorker Magazine editor and author Ben Greenman originally wrote the celebrity musical Fragments from Death Comes for Britney Spears! the musical for media gossip website Gawker.com. Though a dark parody, the project is intended to create sympathy for Ms. Spears, and to encourage a discourse on the entire gossip industry by which celebrities are manufactured and then crushed.
Writer Ben Greenman (Superbad, Superworse, New Yorker Magazine, McSweeney’s)
Featuring: Michael Abbott, Jr., Mot Filipowski, Cosmo Pfeil, Tom Gorman, Julie Strong
Produced Christine Giorgio, Edited Sandra Montiel
Cinematography Peter G. Howell
Music Riley Baugus, Growler, Charlie Pickett
Grand Gorge (Western, 12 mins, HD, 2008) is an experimental narrative inspired by the western genre and its stereotypes: brotherly rivalry, the anti-hero, the good-natured prostitute and biblical references. With an underlying dark, melodramatic humor, this western pastiche has white men seeking revenge and redemption in a cyclical fashion against a shifting timeline.
“We’ve unshackled ourselves....Drama, freed from the burden of form…I don't need the devil. I can go to hell all alone. Thank you."
Featuring Casey Spooner, Ford Wright, Bobby Conn, Jon Langford, Amy Galper, Marianne Potje. Edited by Christine Giorgio.
Paging Dr. Freud (Multi-Frame Video, 18 mins, 2007) is a multi-frame montage based on image, music and sound bites pulled from various media elements from Doorika performances (1990-1999). It is not intended as a documentary of the theater's history, but rather a new artwork made from elements of past work combined with the theater’s research source materials such as film clips from Suddenly Last Summer, Cruel Story of Youth and the 35 mm Doorika film Hard Head Flair. Part analysis of the process of performance art making - this dense montage creates a meta-narrative that plays off the history of American pop culture.
is a dark comedy revolving around three former high school classmates –THE BODYBUILDER, THE GOOD OL' BOY and THE HOMECOMING QUEEN - whose lives become entangled after the airing of a tabloid news program.
[RT 86 mins, Color, Shot on Super 16]
FEATURING: KRISTIN DISPALTRO, MOT FILIPOWSKI, ADAM NEE, COSMO PFEIL, KATHRYN ROSSETTER, BRIAN SLATEN, RICH SOMMER
Funded in part from a NYSCA Grant
Producer Aaron S. Levine | Director & Writer Erika Yeomans | Editor Sandra Montiel | Cinematographer Ben Kasulke | Costume Designer Heather Priest | Original Score Pierre Foldes
Fashion Commercial Parody, 35mm, 1998
Featuring Casey Spooner, Jim Skish, Amy Galper
Production Photos by Roe Ethridge
Based on Doorika theater project In So Many Words.
26 mins, DV, Film Noir, Experimental
"The Forgery is a heady invocation of all that's sublime about the movies. That it's so funny is icing on the cake. A quite necessary piece of cinema."- Steve Lafreniere, INDEX Magazine, 2000
Double-crossing star-crossed lovers narrative based on 100’s one liners from dozen of 1940-1950’s noir films.
Based on DOORIKA theater project. Featuring Amy Galper, Casey Spooner, Ford Wright and Magica Bottari. Cinematography by Ken Kobland, Music by Scott Leuthold and Lizzy Yoder, Original Score by Pierre Foldes, Edited by David Ketterling, Costumes by Heather Priest, Produced by Aaron S. Levine
Mockumentary, 40 mins. 1997 (b & w / color)
"...a stunning tribute to legendary cult artist, Bas Jan Ader" - Charlie Phillips, London, Sheffield Doc/Fest
Featuring the voices of Ira Glass, Jim Strahs, Kate Gleason, Lizzy Yoder, Ford Wright & Judy Elkan
A conceptual video based on the life and art of Dutch conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader. The work is a playful mix of personal diary and documentary inspired by the artist's last project In Search of The Miraculous. Through found footage, Bas Jan's artwork and appropriated Hollywood Technicolor biographical films such as Lust for Life, Sound of Music and The Dove the short is comprised of two parts. Part I is a faux PBS-styled documentary about the artwork of Bas Jan Ader; Part II - a mashup of Hollywood films used to tell his life story.
