Variations on a Theme: Q&A inspired by Chuck Mee's "Fire Island" (pt1)

To celebrate defunkt theatre's upcoming production of "Fire Island" by playwright Chuck Mee, I was commissioned to create a video series that explores the themes of love and loss found in the play.
Here's the first installment with the amazing and wonderful author Nick Mattos. check it out after the jump .

Reminiscence : A companion (2011)

Reminiscence is a companion short art-porn film piece meant to serve as  a teaser for the feature film
Spark, featuring many of the cast members of Spark and set to an original  score by A is for Accident. It also serves as a nice recap of 2011 and the globe trotting film production that has encompassed our lives here at Time-Out Films.   It's a tad morose, a little dreary, and a whole lot smutty.

Privacy (2011)

               A new artporn piece Privacy, featuring actor and musician Matthew Clarke. 





Watch the retro styled portrait of auto-erotica  after the jump.

In a Certain Light:Photoworks

A brief trip through the archives and some of my favorite shots.

In A Certain Light: Photoworks by Andrew Klaus

View more presentations from Andrew Klaus-Vineyard.

BASEMENT SERIES (JEREMY)

JEREMY #003 ©2011

Risers video gets some (press) love

Thanks to Just Out for a nice write up on Mattachine Social's recently released video for the track "Risers".

WATCH: MATTACHINE SOCIAL’S NEW MUSIC VIDEO “RISERS”

 BY NICK MATTOS ON OCT 14, 2011 IN MUSIC |

Just in time for Halloween, local dance-rock darlings Mattachine Social release their charmingly spooky new video “Risers.”

Between the grinding bass and lush-yet-ghostly harmonies, “Risers” sounds like something out of a horror movie — and for good reason. “The song was musically inspired by the trailer for The Walking Dead,” bandmember Andrew Klaus explains, “but once we got to writing, the boys in the band really ran with it and took it to the next level.” The song is an indictment of what Klaus describes as “the complacency of gay culture:” “there’s a line in there about ‘rising up the Lohan army’ as a metaphor for gay culture becoming this zombified, materialistic shadow of what our counterculture could have been if we hadn’t settled for the superficial.”

Of course, a creepy song warrants a creepy video — and “Risers” certainly delivers. The video, directed by Klaus and his Mattachine Social bandmate Justin Warner, was initially inspired by Surrealist supernatural thrillers like Carl Dreyer’s Vampyr. However, once the cast assembled at Lone Fir Pioneer Cemetery, another inspiration became clear. “I realized that, once I saw everyone in costumes, the effect was reminiscent of Disney’s Haunted Mansion — charming as much as spooky,” Klaus recalls. “It was natural to apply 1940′s-inspired special effects, and get a little hokey!”

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A little spooky, a little hokey, a little sexy, and a lot of fun — just like Halloween. The perfect soundtrack to get you in the mood for costume assembly!

Jeremy 2011

Jeremy-Basement series ©2011

Jeremy Camera test ©2011

Spark (2011) teaser trailer #2

 

   It feels like all SPARK, all the time lately , but that's not true at all. Mattachine Social are hard at work writing and recording  their debut album and  Time-Out Films has a few other films in the works including the upcoming experimental film ZOOGRAPHIES, Mock (a re-envisioning of the rarely seen short film Inheritance) and some other super secret projects.


BUT!!!!  Since Spark is our debut feature production  here's another teaser to get you by until we are ready to unspool this beast upon the world.

Spark (2011) teaser trailer

SPARK: A Sneak Peek

    I've decided to test out some sequences from the upcoming sexually explicit feature film Spark over on xtube to see how certain scenes play out for an audience.  So of course I have to share them here as well. So here's your first look at my new film Spark.

Golden Boys

Mattachine Social -Scorpio Rising

New video from the band Mattachine Social (aka Justin Warner, Andrew Klaus, and Ben Jansen) for the single Scorpio Rising  

From the e.p. Our Heroes Bleed Glitter.

After the jump.

The Artist Model (2010)

The Artist Model from Andrew Klaus on Vimeo.


The Artist Model is a surrealist film about the internal monologue and the disconnect of self image for the working artist. The film features renowned visual artist TJ Norris (here rendered near-unrecognizable via digital make-up effects) as artist who has a greed to sit as the subject of a portrait for another unseen artist. The viewer is treated to inner monologue of "the artist's" scatter-shot stream of conscious as he waits for the sitting to end.

The piece was originally created as a video installation for the critically acclaimed Spread Ego at PLACE Gallery in Portland Oregon.

Spark (update)

     We're entering the final big chunk of shooting for Spark, with principal photography wrapping by the end of January, which will leave only the delightful effects shots to pick up and engineer. The films opening sequence, a quite bloody suicide attempt has yet to be lensed, saving the best for last- perhaps.
     The script has been largely improvised, and wholly unpleasant. It's been a grueling process mentally and emotionally making a film that many will instantly view as autobiographical and at times even I have had a hard time discerning the facts from the fiction of it all.
      Much has been made of the fact the film is pornographic. I've argued it's sexually explicit but not pornographic since the visceral depictions of real sex in the film are integral plot points meant to provoke and disturb rather than titillate. I argue if it is pornography, then it's the least sexy porno film I can make.   The film paints with the sickly tones of addiction with a pseudo-documentary/verité  flair that belies the planning involved to make  the film.  Shot in three countries and in multiple states on a variety of formats to express the dreamlike (or nightmarish) state of manic depression and sexual depravity the film is the experimental feature that my gallery work has hinted at for years, work that I've been hesitant to fully extrapolate into a narrative film.  But no more.  There are so many people to thank who've supported this project that I won't start that just yet but I love you all.

For those who need a synopsis

Spark follows a self absorbed artist/film maker who turns the cameras on himself through a major depressive period and highly active time of sexual addiction. The film is a raw and unflinching look at self destruction and hopefully, recovery.

Mattachine Social

Time-Out Films founders Andrew Klaus and Justin Warner's musical endeavor Mattachine Social (along with guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Ben Jantzen) has released it's debut e.p.  Our Heroes Bleed Glitter . The seven song (includes two remixes!!) ep is a tease for their forthcoming full length electro-rock album on Le Garçon Sale Records.   Check out their stellar live shows in the coming months.

Spark: update

An update on SPARK, a new film from Time-Out Films and director Andrew Klaus :

So we are in our second week of the European shooting schedule a few days in Iceland and now Paris, France. We've managed even to shoot scenes inside the Louvre and an opulent dream sequence in the apartments of Napoleon Bonaparte (also at Musee de Louvre) !  Lots of  locations here, trying to capture the feel of Paris through the eyes of someone who can't even find the beauty in it when it's all around him. Someone who is so hurt that the world around him starts to wither in his eyes as his partner struggles to save him from himself. It's been an intense experience writing/directing/AND acting in this film but I'm very proud of it and of everyone involved as well as humbled beyond belief by the amazing outpouring of support to make this film a reality,  it may not be a feel good film, but it is one of very honest feeling.

Andrew Klaus

Here's a more current comprehensive looks at the work of Time-Out Films co-founder, director Andrew Klaus


Andrew Klaus : DEMO REEL Fall 2010 from Andrew Klaus on Vimeo.

Mattachine Social- Alexander

   Time-Out Films produced the music video "Alexander" for Mattachine Social..well we had to-as the band is made up of  Time-out Films founders Andrew Klaus and Justin Warner. Directed under their combined Klaus/Warner moniker checkout the electro band's debut single below.

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Mattachine Social is a queercore electro duo featuring Andrew Klaus (of A is for Accident) and Justin Warner (of Violet Uprising) based in Portland Oregon. The band is a newly formed venture for the two film maker/musicians who've had long individual careers in multi-media arts.

Alexander from Andrew Klaus on Vimeo.

Nishant

                                                             "Nishant -in the wild"       ©2010  

I'm happy to share the first batch of a shoot a did with aspiring model Nishant.  I've know  Nishant casually for a few years now and finally got around to shooting some photos of the lovely fellow. 

more from a  more studio setting after the jump

Mister (Dave pt 2)

See more of this sexy Mister (model Dave) after the jump.