’tis the season for spooky Santas!

GEP Pal Will Bates of Fall On Your Sword and composer of Fessenden’s DEPRAVED and BENEATH,
delights us with his annual Christmas Audio Offering Santa is Coming to Town b/w White Christmas…
Available on iTunes,  streaming on youtube and in a limited vinyl edition.

Greetings Friends of Glass Eye Pix

Each year we have a Holiday party
in our New York City Apartment
for local friends and associates.

And since 1989
we’ve kicked off the party with an informal and ram-shackle
puppet performance of Dickens’ SCROOGE
because … it is one of the great yarns!

This year we decided to make a version of the show
to connect with our absent friends and
we thought we’d share the link with you too,
to spread a little Holiday Cheer.

If you have a look, we hope you’ll find a glow
and have a chuckle.

—Larry

Depraved: an interview with Larry Fessenden

The name of Larry Fessenden is very well known in the indie horror industry, but not so much outside of it; he seems to be a legend in his own field. So I asked Larry how he sees himself. “I loved Jaws when I was little, so I thought I would be a filmmaker like that. But at the same time, in my generation, I didn’t really know how to ‘break into showbiz’, so my point is you have different levels of ambition, and as you get older, you realize there are many different careers. I also very much like George Romero, he is a role model, and he always felt frustrated that he wasn’t supported by Hollywood; he had a few forays. At some point they attached the word ‘icon’ in front of my name, and it’s a complete mystery but why wouldn’t I take it? Not for the ego: I always say you want good reviews, and words like ‘icon’ in order to gain power in the industry to make good work, or support other people’s work. That’s really the agenda. So it hasn’t worked out terribly well, but it’s still nice to have a voice; in that, I’m privileged. Even in my small section of the world.”

Read Interview HERE

From Slant:

52. Depraved (2019)

What does a Frankenstein figure look like in 2019? According to Larry Fessenden’s Depraved, he’s a guy with war-addled, once-noble intentions set adrift by male ego and shady benefactors. He’s a white man grasping for control in a world coming apart, a cog in a machine who hasn’t broken free so much as changed the machine’s function—from that of war to that of the pharmaceutical industry. The film, Fessenden’s first feature as both writer and director since 2006’s The Last Winter, paints multiple psychological portraits that are sad, angry, and strangely beautiful. It shows us the mind of not just PTSD-afflicted field surgeon Henry (David Call), but also that of his prototypical sewn-together “monster,” Adam (Alex Breaux), and his assistant and Big Pharma bankroller, Polidori (Joshua Leonard). Throughout, the film it remains firmly focused on its thesis of Frankenstein as a lens for examining modern society. Fessenden catalogues what personalities and power dynamics have shifted and what hasn’t changed at all. He diagnoses the rot of our era through these solipsistic men that pour their prejudices and their insecurities into Adam, an open book eventually read back to its authors with a violence they cultivated themselves. 

See Full List Here

Posted 11 Dec 2020

The Past Inside The Present
(2015, Dir. James Siewert, 12 mins)

Produced by Larry Fessenden and Chris Skotchdopole.

Starring Miles Joris-Peyrafitte and Schuyler Helford.

An allegorical tale of a couple who attempt to renew their dying relationship by plugging directly into recordings of their memories. When their illusion breaks, they must face the barren reality of the present.

Composed of over seven thousand frames of pen and charcoal meticulously drawn over the course of almost two years.

PAST INSIDE THE PRESENT features indie director Miles Joris–Peyrafitte, known for As You Are (2016), Dreamland (2019) and Tank Girl.

James Siewert is an artist an animator who joined the glass Eye Pix family after attending Bard College in professor Kelly Reichardt’s film class. He directed several music videos for GEP and continues to pursue that art form with notable work such as “Things Like This (A Little Bit Deeper).” He has also served as director of photography on several GEP features and shorts including LIKE ME, THE RANGER, DEPRAVED (with Chris Skotchdopole), SIZE UP and THE EGG AND THE HATCHET.

Siewert is also responsible for visual effects in DEPRAVED, LIKE ME, STRAY BULLETS and FOXHOLE; he created the hand-constructed camera rigs seen in such films as DEPRAVED, LIKE ME and THE RANGER and he crafted the animations that constituted the inner workings of the brain in Fessenden’s DEPRAVED. Siewert is truly “the artist in residence” at Glass Eye Pix. For more on Siewert, visit jamessiewert.biz

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