New Demo Reel

Here is a new DIFFICULT DEATH demo reel.  This is from footage from our original trailer we did almost three years ago (!!!), edited here in color and with music by Marianne Nowottny, who is doing the score for the film.

New Film Synopsis

Here's our new film synopsis, which appears on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1105372/

The story of a painter, Pierre Dumont, who in the course of his art school adventures meets Arthur, a poet and transgendered composer who fled New York on a barge. Arthur lives the free and exciting life of the artist and is beyond the reproach of anyone. Pierre envies and admires the lifestyle he reveals to him, and the two quickly become lovers. His mother, the sinister Madame Dumont, despises their union, and criticizes Pierre for his "degenerate" lifestyle. Pierre's dilemma is underscored by her affections for Diane, a gentle painting student and his closest friend. While Diane would willingly spend her life with him, Pierre longs for the excitement and freedom Arthur represents. He slowly unravels, confounded by the dichotomy of love and passion, and struggles to reconcile his affection for Diane with his intense need for Arthur's' devotion.

It's looking good!  We are hoping to start filming in January.

the first surrealist

De Cherico has always been my favorite painter and a huge inspiration.  

Grace Jones on fire

IGGY is my inspiration

My friend IGGY is an awesome performer from Berlin who has lived in NYC for years and who I used to do shows with.  He is one of my biggest inspirations.

an Otto Dix painting

...inspired by the Andersson quote I stumbled upon this awesome Otto Dix painting

a quote from Roy Andersson

I read this quote in the paper yesterday.  Roy Andersson is a Swedish film maker, whos work I have yet to see, but sounds cool and stylistic.  DIFFICULT DEATH has elements like that, deliberate and contrived almost cartoonish elements...

"So overnight - I know exactly when it was, in 1985 when I was preparing a commercial, I understood that the only way to get the language of cinematography more rich is to leave naturalism and go over to abstraction. When I was young, I was very fond of naturalism and realism, but later I could really see the wisdom in more abstract painting, like the Expressionists and the Symbolists. I'm so fond of two painters in Germany between the two world wars. One of them is my absolute favorite, Otto Dix, and the other is George Grosz."