2 New Movies!

We, Dan and Vince, HAVE been doing stuff. Like what? Uh, how about making movies. And since we just made them today, neither was eligible for an Oscar- at least not this year.

One is up there, the other one is right here.



These are from Vimeo. If you're on Vimeo, you should become our friend or however it works. We've also got YouTube versions of the clips here and here.

Watch all of them 1 million times!

Dan

More from HalfEatenDimSum...

A while ago we talked about our new favorite Australian (?) metal/dada/songwriter/filmmaker/animator/prankster/Kerry King-hating YouTube User HalfEatenDimSum... Remember? No? Well... whatever.

Anyway, we did.

And then today, we decided to check back in and see what our friend HalfEaten was up to these days...

Well, he's still making experimental films:



... and "writing" "songs":



... and performing heavy metal on an acoustic guitar:



Except now he also gives relationship advice:



And advances his own theory about the Kennedy assassination:



(Shrug)

Long story short, he's a million times better than Fred.

Dan

NEW VIDEO: 3-D Line

Next time your friend tells you he's uploaded a YouTube video- ask him how many dimensions the video uses. When he says 2, go "why don't you jump off of a bridge or eat a bunch of poison or figure out some real painful way to kill yourself." Now, that may seem harsh- but check it, we, Dan and Vince, just raised the bar as far as YouTube goes...



We, Dan and Vince, have decided to experiment (read: cash in) on the recently revived fad of 3-D. So we present our first YouTube video in THREE-DIMENSIONS.

Put on a pair of good-old fashioned Red and Blue glasses, sit-back, and enjoy!

Dan

Surrealism Hijacked 2! Empire 2!

INT. SOME TRENDY BAR IN NEW YORK CITY - NIGHT

Surrealists Dan and Vince bust through the door and begin flipping over tables.

Poe! Amos Poe! Is Amos Poe in here? Where is he? Somebody bring me that No Wave motherfucker! He's on my list! And not my Christmas list- my other list- my shit list! It's right here. It says:

1. LA Times
2. Amos Poe

End of list. Anyway we're here to talk to Poe about his 2007 film Empire 2. The trailer's embedded at the top of the page, give it a watch, we'll wait...

When I watched that trailer I felt like I had already seen it before- but, c'mon a sequel to Andy Warhol's Empire- I know I haven't seen that before- unless... I saw it inside my own brain!!!

I present EXHIBIT A in the trial of Dan and Vince vs. Amos Poe. Here is a clip from an interview I did in 2001...



You think you dada, Poe? You ain't dada! You ain't nothin'! This ain't over Poe!

Dan

ART WE LIKE: Trent Harris' The Beaver Trilogy

The Beaver Trilogy is a movie. Crispin Glover is in it. We like him.

So it starts with this dude in a parking lot being filmed by this other dude. The one dude does some impressions and stuff. Then the two dudes split up... Then the one dude writes to the other dude and tells him that he's doing a show and he's going to dress up as Olivia Newton John and the dude (the camera dude) should film it. Then we see this talent show, which ends with this dude singing like Olivia Newton John.

(Pretend this paragraph is in black and white.) Then we see these two new dudes in the parking lot. One is holding a camera and the other is Sean Penn and he is doing impressions. Then they split, and it turns out the one dude (Sean Penn) is putting on a talent show. The camera dude goes to film it, and film it. Eventually Sean Penn dresses up like Olivia Newton John and sings. Then the camera dude leaves. Then Sean Penn calls the camera dude and goes 'hey dude, I don't want that to be on TV,' but the camera dude says 'no' or whatever...

(Now we're in color again, and we look like a movie.) There's this dude who like Olivia Newton John (like we said, Crispin Glover). He goes to a restaurant and Dottie is there. People make fun of him, but he will be on TV, he says. The he goes to a parking lot and runs into this camera dude. He does some impressions... etc... talent show... etc...
[SPOILERS]
dresses like Olivia Newton John...
[END SPOILERS]

So as you can tell from my synopsis, the movie is awesome! It is a documentary, a narrative, and an experimental film. It is case-study in obsession, hind-sight, and regret. No amount of thesis papers on the re-enactments in The Thin Blue Line will tell you as much about the objectivity (or the lack there of) in cinema as The Beaver Trilogy.

Check out the official site HERE.

Dan

ART WE LIKE: Crsipin Glover

It might seem weird to pick someone who works in the traditional art-form of "acting" in what are mostly "narrative feature-length motion pictures" as an artist we admire. But watch the above clip from the film River's Edge...

Crispin Glover is not traditional, even when doing traditional actor things, like going on a talk show...



Or making a guest appearance on a sit-com...



Or a playing a small role in a slasher film...



Or releasing an album...



Or directing his own films...





Crispin Glover is awesome.

Dan