Whippin' it in Philly

Tuesday, June 24 2008 @ 03:33 PM   


filmmakingThis is pretty cool.  The Philadelphia Independent Film Festival just phoned me asking if I'd be in Philly on Sunday afternoon.  Emily and I are planning on driving back to Vermont on Sunday so I told them I could be.  It turns out, they want me to participate in a "feedback" interview that day with filmmaker/musician Gerald Casale, the bass player and co-songwriter from Devo.  I don't know the format of the interview or whether it will be a one-on-one or if I'll be on a panel of filmmakers being interviewed or what, but I was told that my film was chosen by Casale for the event, which is great! 

Aside from founding and playing in Devo, Casale also shot almost all of their music videos, and according to his Wikipedia page, he...

"has also directed videos for other artists, including A Perfect Circle ("Imagine") Rush ("Superconductor"), the Foo Fighters ("I'll Stick Around"), Soundgarden ("Blow Up the Outside World"), and Silverchair ("Freak" and "Cemetery"), among others."

As a total aside, one of the first links I found when I Googled "Gerald Casale" was this interview with him on a very mid-90s looking site called The Vermont Review.

My talk with Casale will be on Sunday from 3-4pm, venue TBA.