Link: www.sirius.com/~sstark/mkr/dp/dp-bio.html

Screening:
Saturday, April 29, 11:00 AM, Charles 3

Synopsis:
Super-8 auteur Danny Plotnick has been an intergral part of the San Francisco film community, as well as the national underground film scene for the past 12 years. His films are characterized by their zany-ness and inventive low-budget aesthetic. The show includes such cult favorites as PIPSQUEAK PfOLLIES, a silent film spoof in which a gang of youths torment our hapless hero; Dunbass from Dundas, about abusive hitchhikers); Steelbelted Romeos, about a bit of road rage at a traffic light, and Plotnick's latest-the 16mm gem Swinger's Serenade, a film faithfully constructed shot-for-shot from a randy script taken from Better Movie Making, a '60s home-movie hobby journal. Complete with bad, soft-core titillation, the risqué script tells the story of a door-to-door Fuller Brush salesman, an unfaithful wife, and her jealous husband. The results are hilarious. The complete line-up:

Pillow Talk Trailer (1991, 2 min.)
Steel Belted Trailer (1990, 2 min.)
Swinger's Serenade (1999, 24 min.)
Flip about Flip (1990, 4 min.)
Steel Belted Romeos (1990, 10 min.)
PIPSQUEAK PfOLLIES (1994, 24 min.)
Dumbass from Dundas (1988, 7 min.) Pillow Talk (1991, 17 min.)

Tidbit:
Since 1990, Kodak has elimated X versions of super-8 film stock

Bio:
Danny Plotnick has made 17 films, released 3 videotape compilations into home distribution, embarked on five national film tours, one European film tour, and has taught numerous seminars on film production and alternative distribution. One of the country's most out-spoken super-8 advocates, he is constantly fielding calls about technical and aesthetic issues regarding low-budget filmmaking. His film Pillow Talk was included as part of the Museum of Moden Art's "Big as Life" series focusing on the history of super-8 films.