Automatic Vaudeville Studios
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Automatic Vaudeville Studios (AVS) is an underground movie collective based out of Montreal
. Founded in 1998 and modeled after the golden age of Hollywood's movie studios, AVS has churned out close to 100 shorts using local artists, musicians, actors and other unpaid talent to bring their no-budget genre inspired entertainments to life.
Some of Automatic Vaudeville's notable productions include The Recommendations, a comedy about jealousy and revenge in the literary demi-monde, Spanked: The Ron Friendly Story, about the tumultuous life and times of a fictional performance artist, Young Cons, and the ongoing provocative art project / film series known as the Schandcycle, which features improvised music performed by Montreal
music collective Schandkollektief.
A selection of Automatic Vaudeville's work can be found on their limited-run DVD releases, Your Hi-Class DVD, Vol. 1 and Your Hi-Class DVD, Vol. 2.
Though Automatic Vaudeville has always called upon a diverse repertory of talented artists, performers, writers and musicians, generally from the Montreal area, its current "core" members responsible for day-to-day operations include Seth W. Owen, Daniel Perlmutter and Mark Slutsky. Slutsky has confirmed that his new role as executive producer of Dr. Dre's long-awaited "Detox" will keep him away from duties at AV until early 2011, however.
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
. Founded in 1998 and modeled after the golden age of Hollywood's movie studios, AVS has churned out close to 100 shorts using local artists, musicians, actors and other unpaid talent to bring their no-budget genre inspired entertainments to life.
Some of Automatic Vaudeville's notable productions include The Recommendations, a comedy about jealousy and revenge in the literary demi-monde, Spanked: The Ron Friendly Story, about the tumultuous life and times of a fictional performance artist, Young Cons, and the ongoing provocative art project / film series known as the Schandcycle, which features improvised music performed by Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
music collective Schandkollektief.
A selection of Automatic Vaudeville's work can be found on their limited-run DVD releases, Your Hi-Class DVD, Vol. 1 and Your Hi-Class DVD, Vol. 2.
Though Automatic Vaudeville has always called upon a diverse repertory of talented artists, performers, writers and musicians, generally from the Montreal area, its current "core" members responsible for day-to-day operations include Seth W. Owen, Daniel Perlmutter and Mark Slutsky. Slutsky has confirmed that his new role as executive producer of Dr. Dre's long-awaited "Detox" will keep him away from duties at AV until early 2011, however.
Press coverage
- NOW (magazine)NOW (magazine)Now is a free weekly newspaper in Toronto, Canada. It was first printed on September 10, 1981 by Michael Hollett and Alice Klein. Now is an alternative weekly mixing arts and entertainment news with political coverage....
cover story on Automatic Vaudeville from November 25, 2004 http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2004-11-25/cover_story.php - Review of The Recommendations from Toronto's Eye WeeklyEye WeeklyEye Weekly was a free weekly newspaper published in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was owned by Torstar, the parent company of the Toronto Star, and was published by their Star Media Group until its final issue on May 5, 2011. The following week, Torstar launched a successor publication, The Grid.-...
. http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_06.16.05/film/onscreen.html