CLASSIC PARTS – R. G. STUDIOS
Dir. R. G. Miller
United States. 40 mins.
In English
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4 – 7 PM
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16– MIDNIGHT
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18 – 7:30 PM
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29 – 10 PM
In this collection of sci-fi shorts, Kansas-based filmmaker R.G. Miller taps into a dimension beyond the Twilight Zone. Working with familiar sci-fi tropes—inter-dimensional travel, scientific mishaps, monsters—on a low-budget, Miller’s films are a product of creative ambition and aesthetic limitations. Much like the subjects they entertain, short films like THE WAVE MATTER MACHINE and THE SHADOW PEOPLE assume an experimental and incendiary quality that is alternately baffling and sublime. As a whole, CLASSIC PARTS compiles the best of Miller’s action sci-fi thrillers, which star himself, friends and action figures.
R.G. Miller has been making zero-budget “Internet Art Films” of unmatched zeal out of his home in Wichita, KS for decades.
This presentation is part of an ongoing collaboration between Spectacle and the Queens-based art publisher Random Man Editions, which specializes in broadcasting various genres of the indescribable and documenting fringe practices across analogue and digital media. More information available at randomman.net.
Special thanks to Random Man Editions, Steve Macfarlane and Steven Niedbala.