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On Screen/In Person: The Exquisite Corpse Project

FilmIndie | Sunday, Feb 16, 2014 | 4:00 PM | $8.00

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Ben Popik brought his former comedy troupe a challenge: the five writers would each write fifteen pages of a movie, having read only the previous writer’s last five pages. They agreed with one stipulation: if they wrote the movie, he had to make it. The result is this one-of-a-kind narrative-documentary hybrid that is equal parts comedy, children’s television show, love story, and supernatural adventure. Meanwhile, documentary footage provides an inside look into the creative process and the group dynamics that make collaboration between friends difficult.

About the filmmaker - Ben Popik, Director

Ben Popik is a comedy writer/director, and former member of the sketch group Olde English – with whom he produced over 150 videos, had a monthly show at the UCB Theatre in New York City, and performed at HBO’s US Comedy Arts Festival. Olde English also performed at the San Francisco, Toronto, and Chicago Sketchfests; was featured in the New York Times; on Good Morning America;Entertainment Weekly’s “Must List;” and made pilots for Comedy Central and MTV. Popik is currently touring with The Exquisite Corpse Project.

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NEW FILM SERIES! On Screen/In Person, BlackRock Center for the Arts’ new independent film series, brings six of the Mid Atlantic’s hottest independent filmmakers on the American indie film circuit along with their films to BlackRock for screenings and engaging conversation. Tickets are just $8.00. Seewww.blackrockcenter.org for updates on specific times of the following film screenings along with related roundtable discussions and meet-the-filmmaker receptions. Series made possible by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program.

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