http://www.sundancechannel.com/films/500528893/

http://www.sfbayguardian.com/2011/04/19/we-who-are-not-others

http://www.baycitizen.org/blogs/culturefeed/short-break-redemptitude-zellner-bros/

Getting caught up with the ZB’s recent show at the San Francisco International Film Festival, which was a blast.

A fantastic recap of the program: http://fest11.sffs.org/news/index_04-27.php

Brothers from Another Planet

Festival programmer Sean Uyehara made it all sound so straightforward: He would introduce the Zellner brothers, a pair of Austin-based filmmakers. There would be shorts, a talk, more shorts and a final Q&A. Simple, right? Then a decrepit elderly man wandered to the stage. Resembling Hans Moleman, he read a prepared statement: “Hello there. Welcome. My name is David and Nathan Zellner, but you can call me Bobo. I come from the planet Fluborg, hold for applause.” This was only the first surprise in Sunday night’s From A to Zellner, a live performance and shorts showcase from the Zellner brothers, whose absurd work so often turns expectations on their head. The piece Flotsam/Jetsam emerged from a purely aesthetic desire, according to David. “For a long time I thought it would be fun to be out in the middle of the ocean on a raft made of luggage with a vacuum and a chicken on it.” When exactly that hallucinatory, poetic struggle of a man adrift at sea turned into a hysterical pseudo documentary of a shark attack is just part of the Zellner’s mystique. Throughout the night’s strange variety show, there was no predicting what would come next, with costume changes, additional characters played by their supposed grandfather (a Bay Area native born in 1923 just blocks away in a Fillmore abortion clinic), or that the brothers and elder statesman would end the show with an unplanned rendition of Limahl’s theme from The Neverending Story, complete with a choreographed tap-dancing duet. —RP

THE TIME HAS COME. THANKS TO SUNDANCE 2011 YOU CAN NOW WATCH THE MOST IMPORTANT PIECE OF SASQUATCH DOCUMENTATION EVER PRODUCED.

SASQUATCH BIRTH JOURNAL 2

Our latest short, “SASQUATCH BIRTH JOURNAL 2” will be playing next week at the 2011 SUNDANCE Film Festival before Todd Rohal’s new film, The Catechism Cataclysm:

Saturday, January 22, Midnight, Egyptian Theatre
Monday, January 24, 11:30 am, Prospector Square Theatre
Friday, January 28, 9:00 pm, Tower Theater, Salt Lake City
Tuesday, January 25, Midnight, Library Center Theatre
Saturday, January 29, 8:45 pm, Holiday Village Cinema III