Doppelgangers

Last summer Snacks generated the great/terrible idea of having a portion of the film centered around a conflict and subsequent "kung fu war" between the two stooge lead characters (played by yoursss trulysss SSSnacksss) and their "doppelgangers". This was based on the suggestion by Jessie Unterhalter and Emily C-D, also known as the artist collective "Two Can", that they somewhat "mirrored" Snacks - by virtue of their "art duo-ness", as well as by eerie physical parallels.

Emily and Dan exude certain Anglo/Celtic wirey-ness, skinny and pale, suggesting lack of vitamins.



Jessie and Tom exude a certain swarthy, greasy Mediterraneaness, with big brown eyes and er...."powerful" nose shapes.



The idea turned into an obsession and the theme emerged - "doppelgangers". Snacks' doppelgangers are females (and approximately 10 years younger at that). Who is your doppelganger? We don't necessarily have clear or huge ideas about "duality" "polarity" "multiple universes" etc etc. But The idea that Snacks' doppels are not "identical" is very suggestive and opens the mind to so many thoughts....

We shot a huge scene (to be documented here soon) in this past autumn in which an entire nightclub "sub-routine" (existing in the large computer program in which most of the film takes place) is intended as a Dionysian blow-off valve for "doppelgangers", which have some sort of role in the "binary" computer universe.

The intent is not to be heavy-handed, but it is nearly impossible to avoid the implications of doppelgangers. Once we put the "casting call" out around Baltimore for "doppelgangers" to populate our "nightclub" scene....people out in the art community instinctively knew that we were asking for "spiritual" doppelgangers and not "identical twins". They arrived to the shoot with every gesture expressing they "groked" our gist. The meaning and implication of "spiritual doppelgangers" far exceeds what is possible when think of duality as mere "mirroring".

Again, we hesitate to be explicit about our thoughts regarding this overwhelming thematic idea....but suffice to say, our hope is that it will be implicit at minimum that one considers that implications of "non-mirroring" dualities and assymetrical binary languages when viewing "GASA".

These photos were all taken last year in the early spring, prior to shooting the film, while we were developing the plot and theme ideas for the film. Practice for the doppelgang events ahead.....

Gastronomical Anatomical Sensory Administration

Greetings humans.

Here it be December and we have not shot any new footage for "GASA: Memory Overload" since early October. Though we have been quite busy editing and scoring the footage we have done thus far.

Here I'll try to catch up with ourself and highlight the footage and work we've done. Included will be stills, credits, behind the scenes footage and soon perhaps some previews and trailers.

We began actual shooting for "GASA" in June of this year, about five months ago. We lit out on a murky summer day to shoot the opening scene of the movie...a "hunt scene" in which the charming and scary Grace Bedwell locates snacks and "harvests" them. note her "tracking gear"...



Catherine Pancake was a great aid to us for this shoot. We found a spot at Druid Hill Park, which is off of a strange access road that runs behind the zoo. It is very apocalyptic in it's thick gooey forest canopy as well odd clearings with trash and piles of mud, all tied together by the foreboding presence of the TV Hill broadcast towers, which we are "appropriating" as sci fi objects for the movie.

Here is a pic of Tom, just weeks before the "shave scene".