[Rumori] damon packard

[Squier]

In the SF Bay Area here, Craig Baldwin's Other Cinema
has screened both the Mockumentary and Reflections,
with DP In Person and I think even the Pacific Film
Archive has screened his work. Reflections of Evil in
particular is outstanding--a major entry in los
Angeles distopianism, incredible, instincutally smart
yet obviously the work of a completely marginalized
fringe-(if not car-)dweller. More legend about
Reflections: he didn't just mail it all over
Hollywood, he left hundreds of DVDs on strangers'
doorsteps and laying out at random ATM machines. he
got himself recognized and perpetually thrown
out/prohibited from Universal Studios for returning
again and again to film scenes there, in front of
special effect displays with strangers, etc. And he
also created "Shindler's List: The Ride" for the theme
park. The scenes filmed on the LA streets with actual
street dwelers, cops,violence--not to mention the
incredible "dog montage" --it's all really really
vicious critques of bullshit movie fantasy world
clashing with some really harsh reality (but is a
total homage to the movies as well). He's a very
sweet, weird, interesting guy. If you can trak his
email down (I'm working on it for y'all), I'm sure
he'd be happy to pas on materials (I mean he sells it,
and, believe me, he needs the money). There's an
amazing interview out there that I think went down
with reflectionsofevil.com.

This page my be dead, btw, but the internet archive
has baqckups:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.reflectionsofevil.com

god luck

(os)


--- Tim Maloney <nakedrabbit at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 
> On Feb 21, 2005, at 2:01 PM, Per Platou wrote:
> 
> > Hmmm, never heard of the man before,
> 
> I know him - I've met him a few times because he
> lives here in L.A.  
> He's hilarious, I think.  I have a copy of
> "Reflections of Evil" - I 
> don't know if it is burnable, but since Damon was
> giving them away, I'm 
> sure he wouldn't mind if I made copies.
> 
> The whole ROE story is pretty amazing.  The short
> form is this:  Damon 
> gets inheritance.  Damn spends it on a complicated
> and unwieldy dream 
> project in 16mm that also incorporates old ads, TV
> spots from ABC in 
> the 60's, music from every 70's movie soundtrack,
> and a Tony Curtis 
> intro from some Laserlight DVD.  Then he makes
> THOUSANDS of copies and 
> gives them all away.  He mails one to EVERY PERSON
> in the Hollywood 
> Creative Directory.  He is so thrilled to make a
> film that he wants to 
> give it to everyone, free.
> 
> Of course, he is deemed a pariah, immediately, and
> people shun him.
> 
> > And it seems like the "untitled star wars
> mockumentary" is available 
> > from this address:
> 
> I have this, too, and it's a riot!  I love this
> guy's films.  Someone 
> should give him 100 million bucks to make Lord of
> the Rings movies.  
> They would be really great.  He's a more deeply
> troubled and peculiarly 
> visionary filmmaker than anyone making those epics
> today.  Let him 
> direct the last 3 Star Wars movies and they would
> actually be good.  No 
> kidding.
> >
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> http://www.nakedrabbit.com
> 
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