On Camera Performance Work 2009 to 2014
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Channel: Crispin Rosenkranz · 2014 · People & Blogs
Recent on camera speaking roles and movement performances for directors and collaborators within Chicago. Featured are: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni, and prolific auteur Kenny Reed's music video for The Velcro Lewis Group, for their song, They're Having a Party. A collaborative comedic short titled, Thank You McDonald's, with local psychic, daring performer and Columbia Film BFA program graduate, Ali Hunger. Try a highly recommended clairvoyant aura reading or psychic energy healing at her site: alihunger.com Sent originally as a genuine video post card of appreciation, we received back a "We're not interested," reply from McDonald's HQ. As if we were asking for money! We just wanted to say thanks for the good times. Our video did however get laughs out of our friends and it played at an exhibition in Beijing at a gallery called, The Gallery. View the whole thing here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxq0g4Y0Cfw My first leading role in a narrative feature, Telepathic Telephones, written by, directed by and also starring Tom Zarzecki, frontman of Death Cat and a graduate of the Flashpoint Academy. He's from Detroit but is now trying to do the Tom Cruise thing in Hollywood. See what this other motor city madman is up to at http://www.deathcat.us/ el Culto de la Muerte, a project currently being shot in Chicago and Oaxaca, Mexico by Emily Esperanza, a recent graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago as well as Prague Film School. This film was successfully funded through crowd sourcing on Kickstarter. See her other work at https://vimeo.com/emilyesperanza Doriantightredpantsxx, a devised adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde. Directed by Olivia Lilley, Carnegie Mellon University graduate and founder of The Runaway's Theater Lab, which was voted by The Chicago Reader as Best New Theater Company of 2014. Featured in this clip are my co-stars Joseph Ramski and Adam Shalzi. Director Geoff Hughes's ode to his favorite novel, The Recognitions by William Gaddis. His film adaptation covers this SAIC alum's favorite chapter. Can you guess which one? A scene from the web series Magenta's Caress. This long-term creative project by Will Goss, a friend and collaborator I met attending SAIC's MFA Graduate Program, actually spans four volumes of as well as three feature length spin offs. This particular episode can be found in it's entirety at http://www.williamcgoss.com/Will-Goss--MC3.html A promotional spot by director Mark Williams for the Chicago Music and Movies Festival, held every year in Chicago. Mark is famous for the infamous, "Curb your Dog," Public Service Announcement which caused quite an uproar in his native U.K, as well as for many other works featuring his outrageous sense of humor. Wei-Hsuen Yen's short film Kurtiss is the story of a cat, or should it be the people who own him? This clip features a walk through Armour Square Park, from which you can see U.S. Cellular Field. Wei-Hsuen made some of the most amazing animated films during her years at SAIC, and she asked me to participate in this live active departure from her usual film work. Columbia College graduates and artist extraordinaires Haley Johnson and Kate Hagen cast me in this 16mm production about a retired clown on his deathbed, who at the moment of death is visited by the spirit of his younger self. It was one of the luckiest days of my life when I was selected to work with these two artists who were enrolled in a directing class with accomplished professor John Otterbacher. Another work from the mind of Kenny Reed. This piece, The Last Blood Orgy, was an official selection of The Chicago Underground Film Festival in 2012, and you can find it on Kenny's youtube channel, mytapeworm. It stars the founder of CUFF, Bryan Wendorf. Is he in on it? Finishing off is the music video, Yep Bope, another gem from the mind of Will Goss. Made for his musical project Plume, I suspect it is semi-autobiographical, in fact, I know it is.
