“Charlie Rose” by Samuel Beckett

(3 minutes; video; color; sound; 2008)

Andrew Filippone Jr., Director/Producer/Editor

Synopsis: PBS favorite The Charlie Rose Show is recast as theater of the absurd in this appropriated footage short.

Screenings (selected):

• 10th Artsfest Film Festival* (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)
*Winner, Best Experimental Film

• 15th Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago, Illinois)

• “Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy, presented by the New York Public Library and Wired magazine, and featuring Lawrence Lessig, Steven Johnson, and Shepard Fairey” (New York, New York)

• “Nepotism and Other Character Flaws” (San Diego, California)

• 11th Boston Underground Film Festival (Boston, Massachusetts)

• “Detournement: Critical Cinema and The Internet” (Wellington, New Zealand)

 
Press & Media (selected):

• Kurt Andersen and Charlie Rose discuss “Charlie Rose” by Samuel Beckett on The Charlie Rose Show.

• “Charlie Rose” by Samuel Beckett earned Andrew the honorific “maker of ‘high YouTube art’” from Alexis Madrigal of The Atlantic.

• Wired included “Charlie Rose” by Samuel Beckett in its curriculum for “Writing for New Forms” in the October 2010 issue.

• “Charlie Rose” by Samuel Beckett named a Rolling Stone magazine “Top Ten” in the May 15, 2008 issue.

• “Charlie Rose” by Samuel Beckett featured in New York magazine’s “Approval Matrix” for the week of May 5, 2008.

• “Charlie Rose” by Samuel Beckett was Very Short List’s daily recommendation for April 21, 2008.

• The Verge called “Charlie Rose” by Samuel Beckett “probably the best tech video of all time.”

• “Charlie Rose” by Samuel Beckett was the focus of the April 24, 2008 installment of “John Carroll’s Take,” a program on Boston radio station WGBH-89.7.

• Ahead of the Boston Underground Film Festival, “Charlie Rose” by Samuel Beckett reviewed by BadLit, an online journal dedicated to avant-garde, experimental, and underground film.