Post Independent

More progress! See the full set on our Flickr.

This happened.

And then this happened…

oops.

So we realize it’s been a while since we’ve posted anything.. but.. we have something to show for it.. and more to come. So far we’ve finished shooting three scenes and are working on editing them while planning future shoots. Once we have enough footage, we plan to cut together a show reel and post it up here. Until then, we’ve got some production stills for your enjoyment! You can check out the full album on our flickr account.

We’ve decided on a working title for the film: Anomie Inflection Point. It’s certainly tentative, but we needed something to call this project while we’re doing casting and other organizational/promotional-type things. We took the title from Jacob Waletzky‘s unfinished novel Distortion Lens. The story’s protagonist (Joseph) is a graduate NYU film student who decides to document his socialite heroin addict older brother’s ventures into the New York nightlife for a film he intends to call “The Force of Depravity.”

The term “anomie inflection point” comes from a bit of dialogue between Joseph and his brother:

“…You shouldn’t leave though, we just hit the anomie inflection point.”

“And what is that?”

“When the drugs stop working and it’s too late to go home and you don’t like the people you’re with, and the women are awful and you probably can’t fuck them anyway, ’cause you’ve got dope dick or coke dick or whatever, but leaving with them is probably the best you can fucking do, because at least that way there’s some kinda semi logical point of departure.”

Waletzky died of a cocaine-induced arrythmia before he was able to complete the novel. The unfinished work was published by Columbia University’s journal press and is available for free from the Addiction Recovery Guide.

Check out “Necropolis,” a short film created by Jake Kindlon, Zack Auron, David Fieman, and Craig Scheihing, one of the writers of Post Independent’s feature film to shoot this summer.

We (Kyle Maack and Craig Scheihing) are in the process of writing a feature length screenplay, which we intend to produce over this coming summer. We’ve decided to start this blog to cultivate interest, organize production efforts with those interested in working on this project, and provide a forum to promote other local artists and their work.

Part tribute, part satire, the film will aim to paint an exaggerated landscape of Philly’s artistic youth demographic, whose future diverges into success and self-destruction, meaning and self-indulgence. The multiple-threaded loose narrative is broken up by short “interview segments,” monologues inspired by real conversations with friends and acquaintances.

Stay tuned. More to come soon.