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"Solo-Me-O"
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- a short clip of the film
Solo Me-O is a documentary short about a cemetery visit. Mary Pagnotta, the
subject of the film, is a 'colorful' Brooklyn-bred Italian-American woman in
her late 60's for whom the past is very much a part of the present. The
film follows her to the graves of her husband, parents, brothers and sisters
-- and still finds her in deep mourning, years, and even decades, after their
deaths.
Despite her obvious pain, Mrs. Pagnotta lightens up the sad ritual
with her odd reminiscences of her loved ones and personal accounts of their
deaths. She is a true character in every sense of the word and approaches
the grave tour, her favorite past-time, as intimately as she would a chat
with a loved-one at the kitchen table. She explains that everyone in her
family that she went to visit, the next day they would die and so she is
deemed a 'grim weeper' figure.
Mrs. Pagnotta takes the viewer on a roller coaster ride that is both
heart-wrenching and hysterical as only an Italian woman from Brooklyn could.
The music of the film was composed by Vince Clarke, a pop music icon that has
started such bands as Depeche Mode, Yaz and is currently with Erasure. He
has written and produced several pop hits over the last few decades.
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"Biblical Real World"
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- a short clip of the film
The Biblical Real World written and directed by Tonya Hurley,
original music by Vince Clarke - depeche mode, yaz, erasure.
The Biblical Real World, a 35mm animated short, is a parody of MTV's
long-running and popular reality-based series, The Real World. Set in
Gallilee in the first century A.D., and starring caricatures of Jesus, his
disciples (the 'roomies') and other New Testament figures, the animated short
satirizes many of the motifs used in the Real World program that have now
become cliches -- the extravagant furnishings, the politically correct mix of
gay, straight and minority characters, house meetings and of course, and most
appropriately, 'the confessional' where housemates reveal their true feelings
directly to the audience.
The underlying humour in the 'Fractured-
Fairy-Tales-Meets-Davey-And-Goliath' piece is based on reducing the most
universally sanctified people in human history down to the level of
selfishness and pettiness commonly found in Real World participants and will
prove to deliver some hardy laughs for the millennium.
Some brief character descriptions include Jesus, who is soft spoken and
arrogant, ordering people to get the phone or fetch him a glass of water
because God wants them to. The Virgin Mary is a washed up, depressed mother
who never hears from her son and gives him typical guilt trips. Judas
accuses John of being a racist because of John's missing sandals which he
immediately pins on Judas because he is the only one from Southern Iscariot.
There is even a 'Clinger' from M*A*S*H character who tries to get himself
dismissed by wearing a pink boa and carrying a purse.
The background is all basic, natural materials. Wood, trees, rocks, fire,
however, the set is sprinkled with the typical MTV furniture including a
billard table, an Ikea couch and a neon fish tank which, in this case, is
occupied by a fresh water bass.
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