THE SUMMONERS, a new horror short directed by Sean Gill and Rachel Klein, will be premiering on Monday, October 27th as a part of Video Mass' Spooky Fest II. It's a free event at Videology (308 Bedford Avenue) in Brooklyn, and the sixteen film program will be screening twice: once at 8:30 P.M., and again at 9:45.
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Sean Gill's latest short story (a melancholy science fiction piece entitled "Trimming Your Human") may be found in Issue #3 of the Blue Monday Review, a literary journal dedicated to the spirit of Kurt Vonnegut. It is available for purchase in print and ebook editions.
On September 17th at 8:00 p.m. at the Wild Project (195 E. 3rd Street, Manhattan), Sean Gill and downtown luminary Eric Schmalenberger have curated "An Evening of Uncanny Cinema," featuring "surreal short films and macabre video art, from cutting-edge New York filmmakers… dark humor, radio hour recreations, bizarre medical misshapes, time travel, champagne, and loads of surprises await."
The evening will feature films by Gill (The Everlasting Vintage, Makin' a Martini, Escape from Staten Island), Rob Roth (Junkie Doctors), Todd Downing & Joe Frank ("Eleanor" from Estranged); Cale Hughes, Robyn Nielsen, Shaun Seneviratne, & Ryan Garretson (Seek Harbor); and Brett Glass & Grier Hillman Dill (Brood X). Tickets are $10 and are available online, or at the door the day of the show.
Ghostwood Development's new short film, Anywhere I Lay (featuring a small voiceover role by Sean Gill), is screening Sunday, September 7th at Video Mass' "Block Bust" at the Williamsburg Cinemas (217 Grand St. in Brooklyn). The program begins at 7:00 p.m. and tickets are available here.
"La Enferma," a short film by Sean Gill and theater director Rachel Klein, has been featured in the latest issue of the British literary magazine Sein und Werden. This themed issue is entitled "Theatrum Diabolorum," and is dedicated to theatrically morbid flights of fancy.
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