Filmmaker has partnered with Patrick Epino and Stephen Dypiangco of the newly-founded and ambitiously-named National Film Society for a series of video interviews at Sundance. In this first video, Patrick and Stephen catch up with comedians Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim on the red carpet before their Billion Dollar Movie premiere. Tim and Eric are their usual absurdest selves, and for their part, Patrick and Stephen turn in what just might be the most laid-back red carpet interview I’ve ever seen: Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie is available on VOD starting January 27th. And for some bonus hilarity, check […]
by Jane Schoenbrun on Jan 22, 2012[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, January 20, 11:45 pm –Library Center Theater] Eric Wareheim: I am Eric Wareheim the number one filmmaker/artist along with my friend Tim Heidecker who is number two and I prefer the look and compression of an internet viral video but my Mom would be more proud of me if I showed my feature length video in a movie theater so that’s what I did and I’m proud of what I’ve done and please enjoy my expression on the big screen or DVD because that’s my vision as a modern day pioneer thank you.
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 20, 2012Now on our VOD calendar are titles available for the month of January 2012. Some highlights: Nicolas Winding Refn‘s ’80s flavored pulp thriller Drive, Danfung Dennis‘ fantastic doc Hell and Back Again, Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie (which will also be at Sundance), Moneyball, The Ides of March and Steven Soderbergh‘s disaster movie Contagion. For titles from previous months go to our VOD Calendar homepage.
by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 1, 2012Leave it to Adult Swim absurdists Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim to push the possibilities of viral video marketing to sick new extremes. The pair recently posted a demented new thirteen-minute advertisement for upcoming Xbox videogame Saint’s Row 3 to YouTube. The ad, which takes the form of a vaguely futuristic, dystopian game show, is hosted by a sadistic psychopath in a pink suit played by standup comic Greg Turkington. On the show, contestants (or are they prisoners?) compete in challenges such as “Replicate a Building Using Rotten Chicken” and “Eat Yourself”, all under the watchful gaze of Genki, a […]
by Jane Schoenbrun on Nov 9, 2011