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Handicapped? to show in 5 venues in the US and New Zealand
Sep 04, 2006 08:20AM
Hey everyone,
Handicapped? willl playing at the Night Gallery Film Festival in October. This festival has five venues around the US that they play to, so if you're in the Anchorage, Alaska; Casa Grande, Arizona; Eugene, Oregon; Juneau, Alaska; or New Zealand area go and check it out. I believe that they should be playing mid to late October! you can always check out the web site www.handicappedthemovie.com for more info. I'll post there As Soon As I Know (ASAIK)!
Remember Support your local Filmmakers!
Lane
REVIEW BY NICK PITTMAN
Jul 18, 2006 08:00AM
A Head for Cinema
Lane Fournerat's Handicapped?' is a head-scratching film
By Nick Pittman, Entertainment Editor
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"Someone would say, I don't like TV or whatever, I don't like fire extinguishers. I would say what's your perception of a fire extinguisher?" questions Lane Fournerat. "Always look through the other side of it."
In his wildly original independent film Handicapped? Fournerat questions perceptions and forces audiences to do the same as he takes them on a journey that jumps through film genre after film genre before crossing into a reverse-image animation sequence. While the story itself is breezy, the questions he asks, and the reality he challenges, run deep, perhaps deeper than even he has searched.
"Basically, the everyman can be handicapped, it's whatever perspective you want to take that word into."
Fournerat is a 2004 graduate of UL Performing Arts program, but got hooked on creating film around 2002 when a friend gave him film-editing software. It was habit forming, as he has now finished about 12 short films, Handicapped? being the longest at 34 minutes. His next project, Action, is already shot and just in need of editing. With his two short comedies -- Bum Rushed and Mason Dixon Line -- Handicapped? screens at the Acadiana Center for the Arts Friday, May 19. The $5 ticket will help send Handicapped? to different film festivals.
Co-written by Benji Beaugh, Handicapped? is strung together from skits they developed and finally worked up starting one night in a Houston hotel room while Fournerat traveled on business with father. Cité Des Arts allowed him to shoot in the bar area and Fournerat shot the rest of the film shot around town, on Vine Street, his uncle's shed and a local apartment.
The first minutes of Handicapped? are formatted as a black and white kitsch episode of a television show called Night Recycler, a take on Knight Rider where the hero's fancy car helps him clean the streets. Later, the special effects highlight of the film comes courtesy Beaugh, an industrial design graduate, who provided a 3D animation of a garbage-collecting metal arm for Night Recycler's high-tech car.
During Night Recycler, the story takes a turn and backs out of the set into a Lafayette apartment, where Night Recycler fans Tom and Steve are watching the show. From there, its ping-pong cinema between the two's night as a handicapped friend comes to visit. Jim is confined to a television (just a head ala Max Headroom) mounted on a rolling AV cart. As the trio channel surfs, the genre shifts to a Charlie Chaplin-esque Western where a villain challenges patrons to a battle of Mega Man superiority. Back in Lafayette, despite an emotional secret from his past, Tom falls for a female, handicapped in the same way as Jim. By the end of the feature, Fournerat has twisted reality, perception and flipped the looking glass once again hopefully showing his viewers whatever message they want to draw from his work.
Says Fournerat, "Being that it's a television that is handicapped, it's kinda just more of an absurd, zany thing. But if you dig into it a little bit deeper, there's some hints around how television has kind of made the human race handicapped and how we've all come prone to just watch TV and be OK with everything."
Nick Pittman is Entertainment Editor of The Times.
E-mail him at nick.pittman@timesofacadiana.com.
http://www.timesofacadiana.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060517/NEWS01/605170308/1002/NEWS01
Lane Fournerat's Handicapped?' is a head-scratching film
By Nick Pittman, Entertainment Editor
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Someone would say, I don't like TV or whatever, I don't like fire extinguishers. I would say what's your perception of a fire extinguisher?" questions Lane Fournerat. "Always look through the other side of it."
In his wildly original independent film Handicapped? Fournerat questions perceptions and forces audiences to do the same as he takes them on a journey that jumps through film genre after film genre before crossing into a reverse-image animation sequence. While the story itself is breezy, the questions he asks, and the reality he challenges, run deep, perhaps deeper than even he has searched.
"Basically, the everyman can be handicapped, it's whatever perspective you want to take that word into."
Fournerat is a 2004 graduate of UL Performing Arts program, but got hooked on creating film around 2002 when a friend gave him film-editing software. It was habit forming, as he has now finished about 12 short films, Handicapped? being the longest at 34 minutes. His next project, Action, is already shot and just in need of editing. With his two short comedies -- Bum Rushed and Mason Dixon Line -- Handicapped? screens at the Acadiana Center for the Arts Friday, May 19. The $5 ticket will help send Handicapped? to different film festivals.
Co-written by Benji Beaugh, Handicapped? is strung together from skits they developed and finally worked up starting one night in a Houston hotel room while Fournerat traveled on business with father. Cité Des Arts allowed him to shoot in the bar area and Fournerat shot the rest of the film shot around town, on Vine Street, his uncle's shed and a local apartment.
The first minutes of Handicapped? are formatted as a black and white kitsch episode of a television show called Night Recycler, a take on Knight Rider where the hero's fancy car helps him clean the streets. Later, the special effects highlight of the film comes courtesy Beaugh, an industrial design graduate, who provided a 3D animation of a garbage-collecting metal arm for Night Recycler's high-tech car.
During Night Recycler, the story takes a turn and backs out of the set into a Lafayette apartment, where Night Recycler fans Tom and Steve are watching the show. From there, its ping-pong cinema between the two's night as a handicapped friend comes to visit. Jim is confined to a television (just a head ala Max Headroom) mounted on a rolling AV cart. As the trio channel surfs, the genre shifts to a Charlie Chaplin-esque Western where a villain challenges patrons to a battle of Mega Man superiority. Back in Lafayette, despite an emotional secret from his past, Tom falls for a female, handicapped in the same way as Jim. By the end of the feature, Fournerat has twisted reality, perception and flipped the looking glass once again hopefully showing his viewers whatever message they want to draw from his work.
Says Fournerat, "Being that it's a television that is handicapped, it's kinda just more of an absurd, zany thing. But if you dig into it a little bit deeper, there's some hints around how television has kind of made the human race handicapped and how we've all come prone to just watch TV and be OK with everything."
Nick Pittman is Entertainment Editor of The Times.
E-mail him at nick.pittman@timesofacadiana.com.
http://www.timesofacadiana.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060517/NEWS01/605170308/1002/NEWS01
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HANDICAPPED? One Week Away!! 7/21/06 at 7:30pm at Cite
Jul 14, 2006 10:37PM
HANDICAPPED? One Week Away!! 7/21/06 at 7:30pm at Cite
Hey everyone. It is one week on the dot until my short film Handicapped? will be playing at Cite des Arts on July 21, 2006 at 7:30pm. You guys come and check it out. It is a project that I have spent the last 6 years working on.
Come and help support your local artists by reposting this bulletin for all of your friends. Make plans with them to come and check it out. 7:30pm Cite des Arts (corner of third and vine... lafayette louisiana) ... Admission is $5.00.
Check out http://www.handicappedthemovie.com for some extra stuff on the movie including the comic book that I am making for the movie, and also check out the trailer for the movie at my videos on myspace or at the Handicapped? the Movie Web Site!!
Hope to see you guys at the movies on July 21,2006 at 7:30, and
Please post this Bulletin for all of your friends.
Lane Fournerat
www.handicappedthemovie.com
l4anyrat@hotmail.com
PS. To all filmmakers: come every monday to Cite for a filmmakers forum at 7:00pm in the cafe. e-mail me if you have any questions.
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Jul 14, 2006 10:38PM
A Head for Cinema
Lane Fournerat's Handicapped?' is a head-scratching film
By Nick Pittman, Entertainment Editor
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A scene from Lane Fournerat's genre-bending Handicapped? showing Friday, May 19 at the Acadiana Center for the Arts.
"Someone would say, I don't like TV or whatever, I don't like fire extinguishers. I would say what's your perception of a fire extinguisher?" questions Lane Fournerat. "Always look through the other side of it."
In his wildly original independent film Handicapped? Fournerat questions perceptions and forces audiences to do the same as he takes them on a journey that jumps through film genre after film genre before crossing into a reverse-image animation sequence. While the story itself is breezy, the questions he asks, and the reality he challenges, run deep, perhaps deeper than even he has searched.
"Basically, the everyman can be handicapped, it's whatever perspective you want to take that word into."
Fournerat is a 2004 graduate of UL Performing Arts program, but got hooked on creating film around 2002 when a friend gave him film-editing software. It was habit forming, as he has now finished about 12 short films, Handicapped? being the longest at 34 minutes. His next project, Action, is already shot and just in need of editing. With his two short comedies -- Bum Rushed and Mason Dixon Line -- Handicapped? screens at the Acadiana Center for the Arts Friday, May 19. The $5 ticket will help send Handicapped? to different film festivals.
Co-written by Benji Beaugh, Handicapped? is strung together from skits they developed and finally worked up starting one night in a Houston hotel room while Fournerat traveled on business with father. Cité Des Arts allowed him to shoot in the bar area and Fournerat shot the rest of the film shot around town, on Vine Street, his uncle's shed and a local apartment.
The first minutes of Handicapped? are formatted as a black and white kitsch episode of a television show called Night Recycler, a take on Knight Rider where the hero's fancy car helps him clean the streets. Later, the special effects highlight of the film comes courtesy Beaugh, an industrial design graduate, who provided a 3D animation of a garbage-collecting metal arm for Night Recycler's high-tech car.
During Night Recycler, the story takes a turn and backs out of the set into a Lafayette apartment, where Night Recycler fans Tom and Steve are watching the show. From there, its ping-pong cinema between the two's night as a handicapped friend comes to visit. Jim is confined to a television (just a head ala Max Headroom) mounted on a rolling AV cart. As the trio channel surfs, the genre shifts to a Charlie Chaplin-esque Western where a villain challenges patrons to a battle of Mega Man superiority. Back in Lafayette, despite an emotional secret from his past, Tom falls for a female, handicapped in the same way as Jim. By the end of the feature, Fournerat has twisted reality, perception and flipped the looking glass once again hopefully showing his viewers whatever message they want to draw from his work.
Says Fournerat, "Being that it's a television that is handicapped, it's kinda just more of an absurd, zany thing. But if you dig into it a little bit deeper, there's some hints around how television has kind of made the human race handicapped and how we've all come prone to just watch TV and be OK with everything."
Nick Pittman is Entertainment Editor of The Times. E-mail him at nick.pittman@timesofacadiana.com.
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