Underwear with blinking lights on it... what will they think of next? This honest-to-god promotional video for an inventor hopeful of becoming Madonna's costume designer was the filmmaker's first paying gig out of college. The filmmaker wishes to remain anonymous, and you'll see why.

A black comedy about loneliness and alienation, fantasy and reality, and one man's search for love in all the wrong places. Adapted from Gilbert Hernandez's "Love And Rockets" comic book, with an original score by Jonathan Richman, and Super8 camera work by MCF-fave, Danny Plotnick.

From the man who brought us punk rock comedies like MOD FUCK EXPLOSION and TERMINAL USA (MCF '97), comes this story of rock-n-roll winners & losers, produced entirely on the now mostly-outdated format of analog-video. Miles (Kyp Malone) is a 28-year-old, pretentious, wannabe filmmaker trying to make the ultimate art film. With help from his pompous British DP, and his producer, a naive film student named Jelly, Miles is learning that failure is a big part of growing up. Likewise, Roxy (Amy Davis) is a struggling wannabe rockstar trying hard to remain hip, while her nemeses get all the recognition. Meanwhile, nice guy Crewcut's new girlfriend keeps making fun of him for having only one testicle, while hipsters await the arrival of controversial filmmaker, Jared Okubo (in a funny scene featuring cameos from filmmakers Craig Baldwin, Danny Plotnick, and Jon Moritsugu). SCUMROCK is full of original characters and situations, like a truly D.I.Y. hipster art film without all the pretentiousness. By proving it's the filmmaker and not the format, SCUMROCK puts the current DV revolution to shame.

"Life is like TV: if you don't like what you see, tune out." AMBITION is a subtle comedy about a man's problems at work and at home.

A professor steals a fabled zombie totem from Amazon natives. He is plunged into a depraved maelstrom of blood, horror, sexual perversion, soul-death and mind control. Innocent and guilty alike are trapped in an abnormal cesspool of twisted degenerate mire. A speculative docu-drama more real than reality itself.

Immanual Kant (Rupert Wondolowski) and his imaginary pinching play-friend (Sleaze Steele) philosophize and wax rhapsodically and operatically over many topics and urban Baltimore settings as the daughter (Kristen Toedtman) mistakenly rejects an invitation to be Hitler's Argentine love-slave. A slapstick, surreal bastardization of a Blaster Al Ackerman play, from the man who brought us THE HALLOWEEN GOD (MCF 2000), a video that to this day still has members of our audience a little freaked out.

A lonely boarding home tenant attempts to attract his neighbor's admiration by constructing a special suit (out of Vienna Sausages!). The project spins out of control as he is confronted with his deceased shop teacher, a mad landlady, a retired army general and others. As his sanity begins to crack, the true essence of love is revealed - madness. Based on the short story by acclaimed satirist/black humourist Blaster Al ackerman. Starring Tom Boram, with a cameo appearance by Sleaze Steele.

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