MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!
guest curator: Eric W Mast (aka E*Rock)
theme for the month: Lo-Fi Comedy

“I feel like I can’t talk about new lo-fi comedy without mentioning my homie Mikey’s “2 Wet Crew” project. I know Mikey Kampan from Portland but he has since moved to Los Angeles and does a monthly comedy night with DJ Dougpound and they’ve created a video practice where they make a new video to premier each month at their live comedy night. The humor is absurd and they often are each other’s camera and crew with a $0 budget, dubbing all dialogue and ridiculous sound effects in post, pushing each other to abstract extremes. Doug is a bit a professional comedian/editor, so I love that they still keep this sort of experimental comedy practice going for the sheer enjoyment of the medium. Also, they’re just weird dudes who have provided me with many laughs.”

MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!
guest curator: Eric W Mast (aka E*Rock)
theme for the month: Lo-Fi Comedy

“This is an older video, but a personal classic from Kyle Mooney and friends, an excellent example of what you can do/get away with when you have zero budget. Great experiments in writing, one shot comedic choreography, developing long term characters, pushing the medium, using Youtube as a sort of notepad… And eventually these guys ended up acting/writing for SNL, so I guess I wasn’t the only one who followed their amazingly asinine videos.”

MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!
guest curator: Eric W Mast (aka E*Rock)
theme for the month: Lo-Fi Comedy

“I became a big fan of Los Angeles comedian Brent Weinbach first through his stand-up, and then a super-fan through his role in Poundhouse, but he also produces some excellent shorts. “Soft Pianist” has a very Weinbachian style, sort of playful comedy in the style of early television pioneers like Ernie Kovacs, in that its experimental with the format and shows sheer joy in creating . Brent gets a chance to show off a bit of his piano playing chops, and I appreciate the music jokes as well as the NES nerd easter eggs… but really its all about Brent’s delivery. Its the type of delivery that can make you laugh way before there’s a punch line on the horizon. Spouting nonsense, he can create an unexpected character or poignant accent that you’re not sure where it comes from but lands hard. A creative dude who made some classic zero budget videos of recent years. Brent always makes an impression when he appears on other peoples’ productions, but his self directed videos really kill.”

MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!
guest curator: Eric W Mast (aka E*Rock)
theme for the month: lo-fi comedy

I love to see this type of video, a kid from suburban America with a camera and some free time making videos and music with his friends, mostly to entertain each other. In the process I feel like Niles has really developed his comedic style. He has great timing, his own style, does characters, not to mention a great eye for editing and sound. This is the video that made me a fan.

MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!
Guest curator: CHRISTOPHER HARRIS

The title for the series of films I’ve selected for the month of December is DOWN TO EARTH: EXTRATERRISTRIALS AND HEAVENLY BODIES.