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Peter Orlovsky as Hindu holy man in "Frankenstein's Little Monster" (2001, Marc Israel)

2010-07-22T21:18:38.103Z

In loving memory of
Peter Anton Orlovsky
(July 8, 1933 - May 30, 2010)

"Frankenstein's Little Monster", a re-visioning of Mary Shelley's novel focusing on the monster's frenzied sexual desires and eventual spiritual awakening, stars Justin Rezzonico as the human-penis turned vagabond-lover. In this scene, The Little Monster, nervous, confused, and lost in a spiritual supermarket, is first made vulnerable to the religious practices of Hindu "Master" Rick Shaw, played by Peter Orlovsky, legendary Beat Generation poet and spiritual wife of Allen Ginsberg. Afterwards, Rick Shaw tries to involve The Little Monster in a pyramid scheme selling bliss-inducing Hope-On-A Rope.

Filmed on location in the Lacandon Jungle during the Zapatistas march to Mexico City, with a small budget and smaller film crew (comprising several midgets), the film was never released due to copyright disputes - some dialogue was admittedly plagiarized from the original book.

Writer & Director: Marc Israel
Executive Producer: Vincent Gallo
Cinematography: Blind Boy Chalmsford
Starring: Justin Rezzonico, Jennifer Williams, Brendan Sexton III, Peter Orlovsky, Dia Taylor, Marc Israel, & Tonya Harding

©2001 Phenomenal World Cinema

"BARKLEY THE CAT" - Marc Israel Music Video!

2009-03-15T02:07:52.410Z

'm super happy to offer up for your viewing pleasure (or displeasure - ya can't please 'em all, folks!) my first ever music video, made in honor of the 2nd anniversary of my cat Barkley & I. Enjoy this bit o' free entertainment brought to you by the good folks at Phenomenal World Cinema, where "if something happens, it's worth filming" (take it up with our PR person if you don't like the motto).
For a better quality viewing experience of this video, go to: http://www.vimeo.com/1381222
Yours truly,
Marc
www.myspace.com/marcisraelfilms
www.myspace.com/marcisraelmusic

HOW I SPENT MY SUMMER VACATION: hitchhiking documentary road film preview!

2009-03-15T02:07:18.465Z

This is a trailer for Phenomenal World Cinema's first feature-length documentary. I'm proud to now offer it on DVD. By 1997, I'd been a traveling musician for 5 years. May thru October were spent on the road, hitchhiking, street-performing as a one-man-band, criss-crossing the USA & Europe dozens of times, In winters, I'd stay in New York City, often at the apartment of poet Allen Ginsberg. He was a good friend, a great teacher, & I'd accompany him on guitar for various performances. In April of '97 I witnessed his passing. With a mind now pondering Death (and my other usual obsession, sex!), I hit the road again, only this time I brought a videocamera!

Get on the road and discuss deathbed manners with urban speculator Geoff Manaugh (mastermind pioneer of bldgblog . blogspot . com) in Chapel Hill, sample drunken ecstatic southerners at the Memphis Blues Festival, stay the night at the World's Most-Cluttered Home in Oklahoma City, visit close Ginsberg friends Steven Taylor (of The Fugs) and poet Anne Waldman in Boulder, share in a titillating liaison in Pocatello, Idaho, alight upon naked hippies singing in an Olympia, Washington shower, savor the vibrant musical flavors of Seattle's Folklife Festival, verse yourself in drug-addled philosophy from Portland street kids, discover the true identity of Bigfoot in Ashland, then head to San Francisco to meet Frank Harrison, a man intent on blowing up the White House. Back east in Vermont, spend a month in group retreat at Karme Choling Buddhist Meditation Center before returning to the Big Wormy Apple. All this, while getting to know a multitude of car & truck-driving cattlemen, immigrants. prostitutes, river rats, paleontologists, ex-cons, & reg'lar blue-collar men who tell often-hilarious stories to filmmaking hitchhikers!
Music by Marc Israel.
For more information please visit: myspace.com/marcisraelfilms