Thursday, September 29, 2011

BYE MICHAEL, HELLO MARCUS!

A little update then... We have good and bad news about Dust Box. Sadly, because of scheduling that just don't work for either of us, Michael Todd Schneider won't be making the props for Dust Box. Clearly we will work together at other times - one of these days maybe even co-create something. For now, we wish him luck on his other projects (as plural as ever!).

The good news is about Michael's replacement, which will be none other than Marcus Koch! Marcus has quite an impressive filmography behind him. As a director he's made such titles as 100 Tears and Fell. And under special effects.. Fuck, where should I start? 100 Tears, Andreas Schnaas' Nikos The Impaler, H.G. Lewis' The Uh-Oh Show, Sweatshop, The Theatre Bizarre, Slow Torture Puke Chamber, and so on! (for a longer list: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1155596/)

We hope that people are happy with this decision!

POSTER ART--ISH

I have uploaded a little sneaky sneak of a poster art I did for the film I'm currently doing.


To quote my comment on Facebook about it (I blame laziness):
"Test art for the little hush-hush film I'm doing now for pretty much no money. Much smaller project than Récompence and Dust Box.

Title and tagline aren't on this, to keep it on the low key a bit more.

I had to make a poster with my name huge as fuck, since Trier has his own Melancholia poster ;) Someone said that when a director has himself on the poster of a film he directed, something's wrong. So I did my own take on it!"

Saturday, September 24, 2011

FILMING 9/23

Did some filming yesterday for my current project. I think it went great! It's gonna be fun putting the final film together, but it's a long way till I get there. I hope to get more shot soon. Better do it before the snow comes!

Friday, September 16, 2011

INSPIRATION

It's weird how something can just punch you in the face with inspiration when you least expect it. And at other times, something you expected would inspire you leaves you completely empty. I just watched the movie Viy (1967). A very good russian movie, atmospheric, creepy, great effects for the time, and just overall a pleasant watch. But nothing. Normally horror oddities like these inspire me greatly, so much that idea after idea will pop up while watching it. Sometimes stuff that helps me with the current movie I am making, but in most cases it's ideas that requires an all new movie idea altogether. Another good movie I watched that didn't inspire in the least was Wound (2010). The last film that really inspired was Seeking Wellness (2008). It didn't inspire me to make something of the same kind, but parts of it really got my brain going in the right direction. I really need to thank the movies I watch more often than I do.

I should also add that I'm not bashing the movies that didn't inspire me, it's not that I am calling the movies themselves "uninspiring". Maybe next time I watch them they do. I can't control what ideas should pop into my head at what times!

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

NEWEST PROJECT

I hope to start filming my latest project (again, NOT Dust Box) next week. This is just a fun try-and-fail-no-promoting project, much like Video Geisteskrank was. I am looking forward to it like hell because it will keep me busy during the winter (but my brain will still have a heart attack... wait a minute, how does that work?.. over Dust Box). You shouldn't expect anything, it won't deliver what you expect anyway.

Saturday, September 10, 2011

NEW SITE / BLOG

So, I figured that if I am gonna be updating the Film Bizarro Productions page frequently, I need to make it a blog. It's been ages since I last updated the old one. So here's the new page, it will serve as the official website for Film Bizarro Productions (Récompence still has http://www.filmbizarro.com/recompence/).

As you can see, I have also added a list of in-production-films as well as films that might not be made (or at least not for a long time). Hope you enjoy that little page, which you should if you like our films!

You can download Video Geisteskrank and My Monster through the Filmography-page, and you can also watch trailers, etc. there.

I will use this blog for more personal posts regarding filmmaking as well so if you wanna keep track on my thoughts (why would you?) and what I'm working on right now, make sure to check back now and then!

So let's start with that right away:
I am currently working on getting a film made before the end of the year. This is not Dust Box, but a film I came up with just a few days ago, which I think will be a lot of fun to make. I can't reveal yet what it will be, but it's a bit different to what I've done so far (but not entirely).

IN PRODUCTION / DEVELOPMENT HELL

In production:


UNTITLED SCRIPT
Stage: 
Writing
Info: Script that we have not intended to produce ourselves.

CREATURE 2013
Stage: Writing
Info: Follow-up to Goodbye, Little Betty. Also shot on camera.


LACE PHANTOM
Stage: Script written.
Planned to be finished: Far into the future.
Info: Will be the last part of the Récompence trilogy - the trilogy of women & the woods. Planned to be feature length.

Other ideas & scripts that are either cancelled, delayed for a long time or just ideas:




UNTITLED ZOMBIE PROJECT
Stage:
Ideas
Info: Zombie related survivor story

UNTITLED MOCKUMENTARY PROJECT
Stage: Script started.
Info: A surreal take on the mockumentary subgenre.

PSYCHO SLUTS IN A VOLKSWAGEN
Stage: Script nearly finished.
Info: A rape / revenge story with a dark twist to it.

ROTTEN SEED
Stage: Script was written but has been scrapped. Will start writing from the beginning.
Info: An arthouse necrophilia film.

UNTITLED ANTHOLOGY PROJECT
Stage: Ideas.
Info: Consists of three stories - one zombie story, one transgender-maniac story and one trapped-in-house monster story.

UNTITLED CYBERPUNK PROJECT
Stage: Ideas.
Info: A cyberpunk rape / revenge story. Not set in the future, but the present with some cyberpunk influences.

TAPED!: THE NEW TREND PROJECT
Stage: Cancelled. Script started.
Info: Was gonna be filmed in 2008 and make fun of the mockumentary trend that was growing and growing. Gave up on the story when we started making more serious films.

PRESS

Youtube review: monsta243

"Holy shit is this movie ever a mind fuck!"
- Running With Scissor's Review

"A surreal head trip..."
- Michael Todd Schneider, Maggot Films.



"Video Geisteskrank is an extremely gruesome movie..."
- Running With Scissors' Review

"#83 - Video Geisteskrank"
- Running With Scissors' Top 100 Most Violent Movies

"Ronny Carlsson's short, Video Geisteskrank, which I believe translates to "Video Deranged" is perhaps one of the most lurid, brutal and unsettling shorts I have ever seen. The movie, silent and shot in black and white using mostly available light has a snuff/neo-mondo feel to it."
- Pericles Lewnes, director of Redneck Zombies and LOOP.

LINKS








RELEASES

Regissören (DVD)
Limited to 35 copies (15 with handmade leather case)
Released: February 2012
SPECIAL FEATURES:
Récompence (Short film)
Scars on the Mechanical Witness (Short film)
Feeding Fingers - Detach Me From My Head (Music Video)
Trailers from friends of Film Bizarro Productions


Récompence (DVD)
Limited to 100.
Released: 31 January 2011
SOLD OUT
Special features:
Director's commentary
Behind the Trees (1h 12min, behind the scenes documentary)
Unfiltered Récompence
Photography slideshow
Trailers

Experimental Films From The Lense of a Shitty Camcorder (DVD)
Limited to 60.
Released: 2010
SOLD OUT
Collection includes:
Video Geisteskrank
My Monster
3xEX
3xEX II: Lost Connection
3xEX III: She Sang Through The Void
Scars on the Mechanical Witness
Writer's Block
Reel 3
Video Geisteskrank VHS Trailer
My Monster Early Teaser
My Monster Second Teaser
Gorica Teaser
and 6 easter eggs!

Video Geisteskrank (VHS)
Only 3 made.
Released: 2010
SOLD OUT

Video Geisteskrank / My Monster (DVD)
Only 2 made - handmade covers.
Released: 2010
SOLD OUT

(KRÅKA) Films Collection, vol. 1: Silly Thrill Trilogy (DVD)
Limited to 50.
Released: 2008
SOLD OUT
Collection includes:
Return of the Goremunching Zombozoid
Return of the Goremunching Zombozoid II
Christmas Holocaust: The Holy Night Massacre
Special features:
Drinking Games 
RotGZ Bloopers 
Original RotGZ Trailer #1 
Original RotGZ Trailer #2 
Original RotGZ Spaceship Sequence 
Info on Zombozoids 
Red Freak Bizarre Trailer 
RFB Extras 
Listen to a (KRÅKA) song 
Fake Telia Commercial

(KRÄHE) Filme Sammlung. vol. 1 (DVD)
VHS Box HAKENKREUZ Edition - Limited to 10. 
Released: 2010
SOLD OUT
Collection includes:
Same as previous + stickers, Do Not Disturb sign, etc.

FILMOGRAPHY





FEEDING FINGERS - MINE IS NOT THE ONLY VOICE IN MY HEAD (2013)
Music video - WATCH
Available: Online


GOODBYE, LITTLE BETTY (2013)
Feature (Short feature)
Available:
 Released in limited to 10 box set (SOLD OUT). Will be available again


DUST BOX (2012)
Feature
Available:
 Finished / Has been picked up for distribution

REGISSÖREN (2011)
Feature
Available:
Online at times & SOLD OUT DVD

FEEDING FINGERS - DETACH ME FROM MY HEAD (2011)
Music video - WATCH CENSORED / WATCH UNCENSORED
Available: Online & on magGot Films' DOUBLE DOSE OF TERROR!! DVD

RÉCOMPENCE (2010)
Short film - PREVIEW - TRAILER #1 - TRAILER #2
Available: SOLD OUT

3xEX III: SHE SANG THROUGH THE VOID (2010)
Video experiment
Available: Experimental Films From The Lense of a Shitty Camcorder DVD (SOLD OUT)

3xEX II: LOST CONNECTION (2010)
Video experiment
Available: Experimental Films From The Lense of a Shitty Camcorder DVD (SOLD OUT)

3xEX (2010)
Video experiment
Available: Experimental Films From The Lense of a Shitty Camcorder DVD (SOLD OUT)

SCARS ON THE MECHANICAL WITNESS (2010)
Short film
Available: Experimental Films From The Lense of a Shitty Camcorder DVD (SOLD OUT)

WRITER'S BLOCK (2009)
Short film
Available: Experimental Films From The Lense of a Shitty Camcorder DVD (SOLD OUT)

GORICA (2009)
Teaser / fake trailer
Available: Experimental Films From The Lense of a Shitty Camcorder DVD (SOLD OUT)

MY MONSTER (2009)
Short film - TEASER #1 - TEASER #2 - TRAILER #3 - TRAILER #4
Available: Experimental Films From The Lense of a Shitty Camcorder DVD (SOLD OUT)

VIDEO GEISTESKRANK (2008)
Short film - TRAILER - TEASER
Available: Experimental Films From The Lense of a Shitty Camcorder DVD (SOLD OUT)