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PANDEMIC 41.410806, -75.654259
official selection Sundance Film Festival 2011
Bree and her little brother, Tyler, know that their parents awaken only at sundown and are capable of strange and dangerous nocturnal behavior, but Tyler is unwilling to leave them.
Programmer’s Note: Screening at this year’s Festival in front of the feature “Sound of My Voice ,” Lance Weiler’s “Pandemic 41.410806, -75.654259″ is part of a larger storytelling experience involving film, mobile, online, social gaming, print, and real world interactions. Concerning two children hiding out in a basement after a virus has turned their mother into something abominable, “Pandemic” marks the first in a series of shorts that will be shot around the world later this year. The short takes place in the same universe as Weiler’s feature script “HiM,” which recently went through the Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab. Adventurous Park City visitors can also participate in the New Frontier Installation “Pandemic 1.0,” Weiler’s initial public release of this immersive story-world.
RADAR
42 episodes 2008 – 2010
RADAR is a weekly, series produced by LABS – a division of the WorkBook Project. The series is a timely, insiders view into the cutting edge of storytelling and creativity, and the attendant tools, tech, models and community. RADAR highlights innovative projects and events across different creative disciplines, hangs with creators and founders, and digs deep into process, method and participation. RADAR is not traditional web content. The series is stylish with high production values, mini documentaries that get to the heart of the subject matter, shot with a commercial and music video mentality by award winning filmmakers from the WorkBook Project creative network.
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HEAD TRAUMA
directed and co-written by Lance Weiler
84 minutes, 2006
Seriously creepy and deeply unnerving, HEAD TRAUMA explores the uncomfortable notion that just because a person may be paranoid, doesn’t necessarily mean that someone “or something” is not actually out to get them. In this engrossing chiller, drifter George Walker returns after many years to stake a claim on his deceased grandmother’s abandoned house. Struggling to build some semblance of a normal life for himself, George tries to clean up the place by day. But his nights are uneasy and plagued by troubling visions of a mysterious hooded figure. Despite his best efforts, things grow worse as the house is condemned and his nightmares refuse to remain in the dark.
official site | youTube | buy | trailer
THE LAST BROADCAST
co-directed & co-written by Lance Weiler
87 minutes, 1998
Bristling with equipment, two enthusiastic local access cable TV producers recruit two assistants and venture into the woods in search of the mythical and horrifying Jersey Devil. Days later, only one of the group emerges. He becomes the prime suspect in the murder of the other three. However, a documentary filmmaker examines extensive footage found at the scene and arrives at a different conclusion.
official site | fan site | buy | trailer
EXTENSIONS TO THE HEAD TRAUMA STORYWORLD
AN ALTERNATE SOUNDTRACK
“CURSED the HEAD TRAUMA music project” begins, right at the point where George’s nightmares cross over into his reality. Features music from Bardo Pond, Dr. Dog, The Capitol Years, National Eye, Brian McTear & Bitter Bitter Weeks, Steve Garvey (the Buzzcocks), Marshal Allen, Jamie Harrar, BC Camplight, The A-Sides, Awol One, Greg Weeks (Espers), and many more.
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Reverse the curse – line up the soundtrack with the Head Trauma DVD for a special soundtrack experience.
Sync to this frame which is in the 6th chapter. 00:31:34
