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From 2002 to 2005 we featured many videos by many different low budget filmmakers. Thanks to Youtube, we don't need to do that anymore, but here are some videos which feature collaborations between the different groups that have posted here, or that are otherwise FF related - including the underappreciated masterpiece, Ghostbusted 2.
Ghostbusted 3: The Real Ghostbusted
Watch at Youtube | Website
Are these guys afraid of no ghost? No, they are not. See, it's a quote from that movie that one time?
Eddie and Seymour have put together an amateur Ghostbusting business, which isn't exactly going well. Do they have what it takes to defeat the vicious Ghostmaster? (Hint: No, they don't.)
The third in our improvised comedic takes on the Ghostbusters mythos. These movies were filmed quickly when we were on vacation in South Dakota for the Camp Rewind film festival every year. No one ever wanted to be in them or take them the least bit seriously and cast members would come and go. I think that lends the films a certain je ne sais quoi. I like all three films but this is the one to watch first.
(46 min, MiniDV, 2003-2004.) Starring Mike Stoklasa, Garrett Gilchrist, Jonason Ho, Jason Santo, and Warren Blyth. Largely directed by Garrett Gilchrist. Improvised by the cast.
A not for profit internet project. No money will ever be made from this film. Any characters referenced or parodied are copyright their original creators. |
Pirates of Film (43 min, 2002)
Part One (30 MB, Realplayer) | Part Two (40.5 MB MB, Realplayer)
Cinematographer Jason Gutierrez (of Transcend Entertainment) and Garrett Gilchrist bring you what is supposedly an instructional video about lighting in amateur movies. Not unexpectedly, it degrades into silliness, ranting, and depression, which is far more interesting. They take to the streets to see if people are interested in amateur film, and try to learn something themselves. Watch as Jason questions Super Mario's sexuality! Watch as women run away from Garrett in terror, and men come very close to punching him! Watch Jason make out with a mannequin head! It's time for fun and adventure on the high seas of Los Angeles.
Written and directed by Garrett Gilchrist and Jason Gutierrez. Edited by Garrett Gilchrist. |
Talking to People About Star Wars (25 min, 2002)
Watch the Movie (36 MB, Realplayer)
Sure The Phantom Menace was a bad film, but could a movie possibly cause so much pain as to ruin a childhood dream? In 2002, while filming Gorilla Interrupted, Gods of Los Angeles and Ghostbusted 2, I stopped and asked the actors about Star Wars. They had all been big Star Wars fans as kids, and most of them would no longer call themselves such. This one raises more questions than it answers and has some funny bits in it. For those who love and hate Star Wars - or both.
Directed by Garrett Gilchrist and starring Rich Evans, Lisa Renley, Jesse Sorgatz, David Ashe, Mike Stoklasa, Jay Bauman, John Brugmann, Cori Haisler, Harry Pottash. |
Ghostbusted (18 min, MiniDV, 2001)
Watch at Youtube | Website
There's something stupid in the neighborhood ....
In 2001, I went to the Camp Rewind Film Festival in South Dakota. I tried to shoot a Ghostbusters-inspired film starring the filmmakers who were in attendance. I failed. No one wanted to be in the film (well, they were on vacation) and the shoot was a ridiculous nonsensical mess.
Mike Stoklasa edited the final product, and it came out pretty funny, particularly toward the end. You should watch Ghostbusted 3 first though, as this is the weakest of the three Ghostbusted films.
Starring Jason Santo, Mike Stoklasa, Jay Bauman, Natalie Sanders, Ryan Winford, Jon Ashby, Alan Winston. Directed by Garrett Gilchrist.
A not for profit internet project. No money will ever be made from this film. Any characters referenced or parodied are copyright their original creators. |
Ghostbusted 2 (51 min, MiniDV, 2002)
Watch at Youtube | Website
"You do realize this is going to be the worst thing ever made, Garrett, right?"
This movie may drive you insane. It's nonsensical, stupid and pointless - horrible and yet strangely entertaining. Personally I love it, for all the wrong reasons. It makes me question the entire idea of amateur filmmaking.
Like the original Ghost Busted, this started as an honest attempt to shoot a comedy film with a Ghostbusters theme while at the Camp Rewind film festival. Once again, I completely failed to shoot a Ghostbusters movie. In fact, I failed to shoot any movie at all. I follow around various funny filmmaking people, and they attempt half-assedly to entertain you without knowing what the hell they should do. Occasionally they mention ghosts.
Is it even a movie? What is it? Do the people being photographed want me not to photograph them? Do they actually want to punch me in the face? Can your heart stand the stunning truth of Ghostbusted 2?
Starring David Ashe, Jay Bauman, Lisa Renley, Mike Stoklasa, Garrett Gilchrist, John Brugmann, Rich Evans, Jonathan Margheim, Warren Blyth, Jonason Ho, Dan Gorgone, C.C. Chapman, Joe Vaccariello, Marc Linn, Bobby Brown, Anthony Stella, Justin Bielawa.
A not for profit internet project. No money will ever be made from this film. Any characters referenced or parodied are copyright their original creators. |
Camp FF3: The Movie (5 min, 2003)
Watch the Movie (10.7 MB, Realplayer) | Camp FF3 Website
A brief get-together in November 2003 led to this .... "film." Nothing special at all. Mike Stoklasa, Jesse Maddox, J. Brugmann, and Garrett Gilchrist star in a short and meaningless film from Camp FF 3, edited by Mike Stoklasa. It involves the alien from "Alien," Mike as a man selling time travel insurance, and a lot of awkwardness. Enjoy? |
Torgo and the Quest for Fuck (6 min, 2001)
Watch the Movie (13.3 MB, Quicktime) | Website
Two wacky kidnappers attempt to find a suitable mate for their retarded brother. Torgo! He'll drool his way into your heart.
Directed by Jay Bauman, of Blanc Screen Cinema. Slapped together without a script in a couple hours at the end of the first annual Camp Rewind film festival in 2001, this offensive little all-improv short stars the cast of Florida's Queequeg Films (Jeremy Gardner, Natalie Sanders, Ryan Winford) and our own Garrett Gilchrist. |
Gorilla, Interrupted (65 min, 2002)
Trailer | Website
You can't escape the ape! Romance, punk rock, anarchy, random destruction, aliens, a trip to hell and a guy in a gorilla suit.
From 2002 - a collaboration between three different comedy teams - Orange Cow, Chicago's GMP Pictures and Milwaukee's Blanc Screen Cinema. Director Mike Stoklasa wrote the 60-page script in five hours. It was shot in 8 days. The shoot was a study in injury, illness, vomit, violence, depression and pain.
Ray, a man with an anger management problem, is kidnapped by aliens, transformed into a gorilla, and pursued by Jacob, a psychotic big game hunter. Dex, a science nerd, constructs the most terrible battlesuit the world has ever seen, but is too shy to reveal his true feelings to Julie, the woman he loves. There's also Sid, a punk rocker who treats everyone like dirt. The world needed superheroes. Instead, it got these guys. Is the world screwed?
Produced and directed by Mike Stoklasa. Written by Mike Stoklasa and David Ashe. Starring Jay Bauman, Rich Evans, Mike Stoklasa, Garrett Gilchrist, and Lisa Renley.
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Radio Man
Trailer | Youtube Playlist | Website
Radio Man lives with his mom. He has a Yamaha keyboard, and he has his own radio station, broadcasting 24/7. This is truly independent talk radio, free to the people, power to the people!
Radio Man has been broadcasting his unique show since 2001. He has also performed live at USC's Groundzero Coffee House. |
Camp Fastforward 2002
Day One | Day Two | Day Three | Day Four | Day Five | Day Six | Day Seven
Seven days of increasingly scary videos from an "event" held in October 2002.
The story: Garrett Gilchrist announced he was holding a film festival in L.A. called Camp Fastforward, but that no one had shown up. Undaunted, Garrett continued to hold increasingly strange and desperate video updates from the site. He became convinced he was holding a "revolution." It became an elaborate, disturbing seven-day event. Halfway through, the Camp Rewind people (who had no sense of humor) actually tried to shut Garrett down!
Thanks to Jason Gutierrez, Jason Santo, Mike Stoklasa, Rich Evans and Warren Blyth for their help on the Day 7 video.
Infamous Scene: Day 7's final shot of Warren Blyth. Oh, and day 4's "teapot" video.
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