MARK EVAN WALKER and I found ourselves thrust into an almost communal dual History/English class called "American Culture and Thought"... a fancy advanced class for brainy kids into books and history and stuff...
We studied history in relation to the works of fiction which eminated from those times AND we were encouraged to present our "term papers' in creative ways. Marks and I chose FILM as we had been hot on that track since we made our first feature DRACULA MADE ME DO IT! in 1971.
Our 15 minute silent film of EDGAR ALLAN POE'S THE TELL-TALE HEART was the culmination of our work as filmmakers...we still consider it our best work ever.
These frame grabs from the actual film will attest to our heightened sense of our place as young artists, in tribute to the great silent directors of 50 years previous whom we had been studying.
Yes, that is MARK as the OLD MAN whose "Hideous Eye" is reflected in the soup bowl...and Myself as the poor tortured LUNATIC with a murderous facination for "The Eye"!.....
If you care to gander at our film of THE TELL-TALE HEART, just visit at
http://www.youtube.com/user/CinefexFilms
Where you can peruse this and the other films we shot on 8mm film back in the day.
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