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“Valley Clouds” Video
From Pitchfork:
Sam Beam of Iron & Wine recently announced that he and singer-songwriter Jesca Hoop are releasing an LP of duets titled Love Letter for Fire. Today, they share the video for “Valley Clouds,” which appears on the album. In the video, directed by Erin Elders, Beam and Hoop bartend while an enthusiastic couple belt karaoke to a less-than-enthusiastic crowd. Love Letter for Fire is out April 15 via Sub Pop.
Satellite love
(Music Video, MARITIME, 2015)
“Satellite Love” from Maritime’s upcoming album “Magnetic Bodies/Maps of Bones” available now on Dangerbird Records.
Vice says: “Maritime’s sound is aging beautifully” and “all killer no filler”.
The AV Club gives the album a very strong B+.
And Paste Magazine says Maritime has a “musical identity that’s been evolving on its own for a dozen years, centered on a passionate and skillful songcraft”.
Congratulations to Dan and bandmates Davey von Bohlen, Dan Hinz, and Justin Klug.
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Once Upon A Time In Nashville
In “ONCE UPON A TIME IN NASHVILLE: THE DEATH OF HANK WILLIAMS” musician Don Helms recounts the death of Hank Williams. It is a short clip of a longer experimental documentary project that Frank Anderson is directing.
Everyone’s Summer Of ’95
(Music Video, IRON & WINE, 2015)
Celebrated singer-songwriter Iron & Wine has just released a new music video for “Everyone’s Summer Of ’95”, co-directed by September Clubber Erin Elders and featuring our friend David Dastmalchian (“Animals”). It’s an exclusive today on IndieWire.
For over a decade, the prolific Sam Beam has been releasing albums to great acclaim under the moniker Iron & Wine. Carving out a distinct niche, his music falls between indie and folk, but is not contained by the boxes of either genre. And fans of the musician have a lot to look forward to in 2015. In July, he’ll release his next full length, Sing Into Your Mouth, but on store shelves now is Archive Series Volume No. 1. As the title suggests, it’s a crate-digging affair by Beam, who has gone through unreleased home recordings and demos and made them available for the first time. And today we have the exclusive video premiere for “Everyone’s Summer Of ’95”.
Featuring David Dastmalchian, and directed by Erin Elders and Jeff Tomcho, the video is a moody piece set across one night, with a wrestling match at the centre. It pairs nicely with the more sombre shades of Iron & Wine’s song.
Directed by Erin Elders & Jeff Tomcho
Starring David Dastmalchian (“Animals”)
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MILWAUKEE
(Music Video, MARITIME, 2015)
Happy Milwaukee Day! From Maritime
From The Milwaukee Record:
Not including some live Whips covers we put out, Maritime hasn’t had a release since 2011’s great Human Hearts. The veteran indie rock band’s forthcoming record is currently in the mixing stage, but as yet another Milwaukee Day miracle, Maritime—a point of local pride in and of itself—wanted to honor the city it loved on 4/14 with a new music video for a previously unreleased song.
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Mondo Lucha!
(Documentary Short, 2014)
The Pinery Boy
(Music Video, THE EMPERORS OF WYOMING, 2014)
Emperors Of Wyoming boasts a seamless melding of American roots music country-and-western, bluegrass and folk bridging new and old. Cutting edge technology is used to record mainly venerable acoustic instruments. The mix of rootsy styles is spiced with subtle hints of spaghetti western, surf-music, hard rock and pop-rock into a distinctive and original sound.
The Emperors are Butch Vig, Phil Davis, Frank Anderson and Peter Anderson
Directed and Animated by Frank Anderson (The Life of Reilly).
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Before You
(Short Documentary, 2013)
A spirit of Malickian wonder permeates this poignant and lyrical tribute to the stories that parents pass onto their children. This is a very personal, poetic documentary.
Directed and edited by Michael Vollmann.
To See What You Can Do
(Documentary Short, 2013)
Nicole is racing in the infamous Riverwest 24 bike race, an epic endurance test that runs on the edgier side of urban sports. Will she make it to the end? Or will she at least beat years disappointing performance? Spend the night with Nicole riding through Milwaukee’s Riverwest area.
Dear MKE is a video series produced for the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin in order to boost the city’s image, dispel old perceptions and draw talent, businesses and visitors. The Riverwest 24 is the third film in the series.
The Riverwest 24 is like no other cycling event on earth. First, it’s an annual bike race that goes 24 hours straight. Second, there are various bonus events that racers can take on to earn bonus laps, including hopping on a slip n slide or getting a tattoo. And lastly, the whole event features a fun, supportive, festival-like environment, ending with a well-deserved celebration for all involved.
Director: Jack Davidson
Editor: Michael Vollmann
Executive Producer: Ryan Dembroski
I’m Not Waiting Any More
(Music Video, FIELD REPORT, 2014)
When he’s not directing documentaries, Manny Marquez moonlights as a music video director. We edited this piece for “The Field Report”.
Director: Manny Marquez
Producer: Patrick Buckley
Cinematography: Joseph Picciolo
Editor: Michael Vollmann
Production Company: Purple Onion
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The Avalanche Girl
(Music Video, THE EMPERORS OF WYOMING, 2012)
Folk Rock group The Emperors of Wyoming perform Avalanche Girl from their debut album on the Proper UK label. Featuring Butch Vig, Frank Anderson, Peter Anderson and Phil Davis.
Directed and Animated by Frank Anderson
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Paraphernalia
(Music Video, MARITIME, 2011)
We braved the worst snow storm in recorded history to film this music video for our fearless leader of post-production Dan Didier’s band, Maritime. The result — the official music video for “Paraphernalia” from Maritime’s fourth album “Human Hearts.”
A September Club Project
Directed & Edited by Barry Poltermann
Filmed by Ryan Dembroski, Rob Schoonover & Barry Poltermann
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Video Killed the Radio Star
(Music Video, ANAIS CROSE, 2010)
From Manny Marquez… a cover of The Buggles song “Video Killed the Radio Star” by French songstress, Anaïs Croze.
Anaïs Croze is also a member of the excellent band Nouvelle Vague. Shot in Echo Park, CA on my Arri BL 16mm camera, and an Angenieux 12-120 zoom.
Directed by Manny Marquez
Cinematography by Rod Hassler
Edited by Alfredo Ritta
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Unattainable
(Music Performance, LITTLE JOY, 2010)
Commissioned by Rough Trade Records to make something relaxed and intimate, Manny Marquez shot and edited this video for Little Joy in an old cabin in Echo Park, CA. It was set back in the woods between Sunset Blvd. and the 5 Freeway, along with a few other small bungalos just like it. It may have been a church camp at one time.
Co-Directed and Shot by Manny Marquez & Jayson Moyer
Audio Recorded and Engineered by Bryan Brown
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Modus Operandi
Frankie Latina and Danny Trejo at CineVegas
A lot of us here at the September Club helped director Frankie Latina produce the dedicated cult opus “Modus Operandi”. It just premiered at CineVegas 2009
Two briefcases with mysterious contents are stolen from top Presidential candidate Squire Parks, setting off a deadly series of double-crosses and betrayals. The film stars Randy Russell, American Movie‘s Mark Borchardt, Reservoir Dogs‘ Michael Sottile, our own Barry Poltermann (as Casey Thunderbird) and screen legend Danny Trejo. The film has also screened at the American Film Institute and the IFC.
Roger Ebert says:
It’s not enough to like such films because they’re “so bad they’re good.” You need to specialize, and like the films because they’re so good about being so bad they’re good. “Modus Operandi,” a film by Frankie Latina that has won praise on the midnight movie festival circuit, is such a film.
Yes, it has babes in bikinis. Yes, it has a “plot” about spies and assassins. Yes, it’s filmed in Cheapo-Color which is used interchangeably with black and white. Yes, it has scenes set in “Siberia, Russia” and “Tokyo, Japan.” But what makes it special is that it was mostly filmed in Milwaukee, and one of its stars is Mark Borchardt, who you may recall as the subject of the great documentary “American Movie.” That was about the making of his own bargain-basement horror film, “Coven,” which a British actor informed him he was mispronouncing.
If you have paid those dues, there is a special pleasure to be had in “Modus Operandi” sequences like this one: The evil Dallas Deacon (Borchardt), apparently wearing the same glasses he wore in the doc 10 years ago, is being chased in b&w across an open field by a helicopter, in homage to “North by Northwest.” He runs and runs and runs, and then disappears into some trees that didn’t exist in the previous shots. The (unseen) pilot shouts, “We lost him down by the river!” Cut to high quality new color footage of some ducks floating past, but no Borchardt. Cut to unmatched Cheapo-Color footage of three babes in bikinis, feet astride, standing menacingly on the prow of a speedboat on a lake, not a river. One babe means business. A second babe unties the top of the first babe’s bikini and she dives in the water — because, of course, she is unable to swim while wearing the top. Cut to Borchardt wading into the (river? lake?) fully clothed.
Do you understand why I enjoyed “Modus Oprandi?” You don’t. Millions agree with you. The film, now at Facets Cinematheque, is touring the nation in search of those like Quentin Tarantino and John Waters who would stay planted in their seats and watch it a second time.
Often the satire is embedded in the very arrangement of the characters. Know the crime movie cliché in which an evil boss sits enthroned in a restaurant, flanked by hit-men and babes? Here they are obviously in the seating area of a Chinese restaurant’s waiting room. Know how the bad guy shouts commands in a phone while his babes make out with each other? Here his headquarters is obviously a bench on the balcony of a hotel. His phone is a pastel 1970s desk model. Know how bad guys give orders to those around them? In one shot here, they’re lined up parallel, so they have to look sideways to talk.
The plot involves… two briefcases, I guess. Who cares? They were stolen from a U.S. Presidential candidate. The briefcases are brought up by a scuba diver through a hole in the ice of a frozen lake in “Siberia, Russia.” The ice hole is seen being created in unmatching footage pretty obviously of ice fishermen — in “Wisconsin,” is my guess. Only CIA agent Stanley Cashay (Randy Russell) can find the briefcases. When we meet him, he’s passed out with his head resting in a tavern urinal, with unfortunate results. At one point the search for them involves a mission to fly to “Tokyo, Japan” to shove a letter under the door of the mysterious Black Licorice (Nikki Johnson), who invariably wears huge 1970s sunglasses, even at night or while receiving a massage. Pay close attention to the footage incorporating Black Licorice in shots of crowds crossing a street in Tokyo.
I dunno who’s still reading. You know who you are. If the film doesn’t sound unique enough, reflect that it’s one of the few in its genre to incorporate (1) a full-screen quote by Alexander Dumas, and (2) a walking-down-the-street shot in homage to “Berlin Alexanderplatz,” and (3) a tavern still using a Blatz Beer sign. The Dumas quote doesn’t make clear if it was said by pere or fils, but you can’t have everything.
–Roger Ebert
You Don’t Know Her Name
(Music Video, MAPS, 2007)
A lonely garage inventor builds a seven-foot, banruku style puppet, and then takes it to a town dance competition, in this music video for the UK based band, Maps.
Shot in Wisconsin at the Historic Mill in Cedarburg, an art studio in Milwaukee’s Riverwest, and the Chandelier Ballroom in Hartford, the video and stars Didier Leplae (composer on The Pool) as the inventor who single-handedly builds a masterpiece.
Production Company: Purple Onion
Directed by Toben Seymore
Executive Producer: Andy Gorzalski
Producer: Justin Benoliel
Ryan Dembroski as the Master of Ceremonies
The video also features Ryan Dembroski as the rather creepy, tuxedo clad Master of Ceremonies and Milwaukee Dancing Sensations Myke and Debbi.
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BONUS TRACK: For more Myke and Debbi, see this video we did several years ago, filmed by Frank Anderson and David Dahlman.
Making “The Life of Reilly”
(“Making of” Featurette, 2005)
In the fall of 2004 we spent one incredible week with the iconic television and stage star, Charles Nelson Reilly, shooting his stage show (which would later be released as “The Life of Reilly”. This series of short documentaries, shot by the September Club’s David Dahlman, and edited by our team, would capture that week. These pieces were later released on the DVD of The Life of Reilly in 2008.
Hubbard Street
(Documentary Series Pitch, Un-produced Project, 2005)
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago is among the most original forces in contemporary dance. As one of the only professional dance companies to perform year-round, Hubbard Street is continually touring nationwide and internationally. This is a brief glimpse into their life and culture.
The Starting Eleven
(Fundraising Trailer, 2005)
Director Adrian Selkowitz spent months on his parents couch in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania throughout the High School soccer season 2005 documenting a dramatic season of the Central Dauphin Boy’s soccer team. The film was never finished, and all that remains is this promotional trailer.
Enemy of the Stars
(Short Film, 2004)
Mock trailer for a non-existent french new wave film. Directed by Wrye Martin, filmed by Mike Welckle, edited by Barry Poltermann. Circa 2002-ish. We never did anything with this except use it for the reel. It’s stuck in our memory though!
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