Phudi Mart at the Abbey Pub

Phudi Mart at the Abbey Pub, originally uploaded by PinthGarnell.

Wow. So a while back a friend of Stephe's who runs the Really Short Film Festival asked us to submit a film. We submitted Phudi Mart because it was our favorite of the one's we've done. We shot Phudi Mart 5 years ago but we'ver never submitted any of our films to a film festival, they were all shot for use in various shows and are connected to those shows in various degrees and usually don't really stand out as their own story. Run Hanner Run proceeded Mark coming onstage at the Improv Festival 2002, Hotel & Casino played in the lobby accompanying our show, and Phudi Mart was supposed to lead into a sketch that had Brent working at McDonald's. But out of all of them Phudi Mart probably comes the closest to telling a full story. Also we use all Copyrighted music in our movies and you have to get the rights to the music to present them at a festival, which the RSFF didn't seem to care about.

The RSFF was last Saturday and everybody from the group was out of town leaving me the lone representative of the film at the festival, which I suppose makes sense because I shot and chopped it. But I wasn't really looking forward to watching it with a crowd, I've never really liked Phudi Mart. To this day I'm still very proud of the editing, which is still some of my best, but the reason Brent was taken out is just too simple, there's no lead up, and his demise, the major plot, is resolved within the same introduction the other characters get, which is odd, but whatever, after all it's Phudi Mart.

Also, I've lost complete perspective on Phudi Mart in five years, it's like looking at white paper to me, so I was very surprised when I saw it at the Abbey last Saturday. We got a great response from the crowd, even the mention of our names. My Mom noted that several people were elboing each other in a "these are the guys I told you about" sort of way. At leas that was her interpretation.

The big laughs came on Tony Smalek straightening the SoftScrub on the shelf (which always gets a good laugh), the three products he breaks to "damage them out", which the audience really got, Kate snorting coke, Wickerman trying to shove a banana in Tony's tailpipe, and Stephe, as Caleb smoking a joint with Wickerman, big laughs. It was just really good to see how that played with a crowd for the first time in years.

Thank you, everyone who attended and applauded and who continue to shove your support for us in the face of everyone else.