April 2009
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“Just because it isn’t in an office doesn’t mean it doesn’t...”
– Morty, Hell Is Other People
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“For a carefully constructed film [HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE] feels very elliptical....”
– Alejandro Adams
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BTdv Roundtable: Self-Distribution →
This discussion covers the topic from a wide variety of perspectives; within my contribution I discuss—both directly and indirectly—Hell Is Other People and my plans for it.
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“HIOP is the story of Morty the loser, but it’s the sympathy created by the...”
– Rodney Ramsey
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“I’ll have to admit, here, now, that HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE [could] easily...”
– Jarrod Whaley, via Twitter.
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It Is Finished
Postproduction of Hell Is Other People has been completed. The local Post Office will soon be showered with a blizzard of outgoing screeners.
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Director Jarrod Whaley coaches Richard Johnson and...
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“Can I tell the world that I love HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE?”
– Marya Murphy, producer of Around The Bay, Canary, and Babnik. (Via Twitter.)
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“I’ll charge you some money for that, and the only reason we would even do...”
– Morty, Hell Is Other People
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Brief Twitter Exchange: HIOP & Theme of Poverty
@zevik: about the film itself, looks like it also portrays today's financial affliction in the the advent of a car vs a home-office
@jbwhaley: I suppose it does, but that was never my direct intention. The film was "written" three years ago under a booming economy.
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Filmmaking, In The Wilderness
Don’t get me wrong; I love Chattanooga. Some deeply primal part of me will always consider it home, even after I’ll have moved on to a place sculpted more (in our collective imagination, at least) by seismic waves and brush fires than by the shameful “removal” of its native people. I too am being forced Westward, though the coercion is far more subtle and less hateful in...
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Comments
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http://www.myspace.com/truestereo →
TRUE STEREO is the punk band seen & heard in HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE.
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Music from HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE; written &...
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Splice Here
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Director's Statement
What is it about financial poverty that so often impoverishes the inner lives of those who suffer from it? Does the relationship even operate in this fashion, or does emotional poverty precede—even serve as a primary cause of, in some cases—the pecuniary variety? As often and as deeply as I’ve reflected upon these questions throughout these early, underpaid years of my career as...
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WatchA short scene from early in the film.
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The State of Things
Production was completed on March 31st. Most post-production has been completed as well, save color-correction of a few scenes, fine audio mixing, and a very small amount of dialogue re-recording.
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WatchThis is the second (and current) cut of the trailer.
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About The Film
Running Time: 75 min. Color, NTSC
Synopsis: Morty can’t seem to make heads or tails of anyone; himself least of all. And to make matters worse, all he’s got in his pockets is a collection of heads and tails. What if he were to go into business for himself? He’s got a Jeep, and there are plenty of empty parking lots in the seedier areas of Chattanooga. Anything to make a buck,...