Happy Monday

(16mm; acrylic; resin; sound; 2006)

Andrew Filippone Jr., Director/Producer/Editor
Michael Cannamela, Acrylic Design & Manufacturing
Stefan Girardet, Music & Sound Design

Synopsis: The unrealized story-world within an abandoned, decade-old short film is evoked and examined in this documentary film object. A film told in still-time.

(see photo set)

 
Exhibitions:

• 11th Rhode Island International Film Festival (Providence, Rhode Island)

• 16th Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival (Hot Springs, Arkansas)

• UnionDocs: The Documentary Bodega Series (Brooklyn, New York)*
*exhibited with Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder’s “Light Spill”

• 2008 International Experimental Cinema Exposition (Paonia, Colorado)

 
Press & Media (selected):

• Ahead of the Rhode Island International Film Festival, Happy Monday in the August 7, 2007 edition of The Providence Journal.

• Happy Monday was the focus of episode 66 of Directors Notes, the weekly filmmaking podcast.

• In conjunction with The International Experimental Cinema Exposition, Andrew was part of a roundtable discussion called “Experimental Cinema: A Feisty Living Soul,” on Colorado radio station KVNF 89.1.

• Happy Monday can be seen in Benjamin Meade’s Death of the Reel, a short film starring Guy Maddin.