Coming to NYC’s Rooftop Films tonight, Friday, June 20: GIUSEPPE MAKES A MOVIE
Adam Rifkin’s chronicle of a lo-fi auteur filmmaker premiered at Hot Docs this Spring. It made its US debut at the Los Angeles Film Festival this past week.
Lanky Giuseppe Andrews once pursued a career as an actor, appearing in films like AMERICAN HISTORY X, DETROIT ROCK CITY, and CABIN FEVER, as well as TV series like TWO GUYS, A GIRL AND A PIZZA PLACE. For the better part of the last fifteen years, however, Andrews has spent more time behind the camera, making crude, cheap, and quick mini-epics out of his mobile home, starring his neighbors and other locals he meets on the street. Rifkin, who cast Andrews in DETROIT ROCK CITY, follows the trailer-park Fassbinder as he sets out to realize his latest film, GARBANZO GAS, in just two days. If there are a couple of scenes that might border on the questionable – such as Andrews having to clean up one of his actors who has had an accident – the proceedings are largely funny and refreshingly spontaneous. What emerges is a look at the creative process of an infectiously enthusiastic man who embraces outsiders, even if the quality of their – and his – work bears little resemblance to what most viewers would ever watch.
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