“Beat Connection” Music Video by LCD Soundsystem
“Beat Connection”
Directed and Edited by Brad Saville
Starring:
Tim Scott as “Head-Phone Guy”
Anne Fidler as “Head-Phone Girl”
Featuring:
William Apps, Amber Bogdewiecz, Tyler Foltz, David Marcus, Erin Merrill, and Zoe Metcalfe-Klaw
December 22, 2009 No Comments
My Interview with NY Press’ Eric Kohn “The Films That Ate Brooklyn”
Exerts:
“No other recent Brooklyn product defines its people by the nature of their neighborhood more than Brad Saville’s Williamsburg. A riff on Richard Linklater’s Slacker, Williamsburg basically unfolds as a series of static shots following various despondent personalities, each of whom claims to be an artist but fails to produce any actual art.
Saville, a playwright in his late twenties, is originally from Virginia. He dreamed up his black-and-white condemnation of aimless Brooklynites in response to a perceived laziness overtaking the neighborhood. “People come up here looking for something to do and attach themselves to other people who have like-minded ambitions,” he explains. “They have those stagnant two years after school where they try to get out of their system whatever they need to get out of their system, like being an actor. So they spend a couple years up here, and then they get married and move away. They form these groups of people who hang out and they all prop each other up. You surround yourself with seven or eight people to help legitimize yourself. I think [Williamsburg] lends itself to that.”
Saville rejects the sitcom vision of the Williamsburg elite popularized by the shortlived web series The ‘Burg.“It’s like, let’s take the joke and rape it,” he says in a rant. “OK, I get it, a stockbroker lives with a guy who has black-rimmed glasses, and they don’t get along. What’s next? I was interested in doing something about ambitious people in Williamsburg who were failing miserably.””
Continued:
“Saville notes that the Williamsburg manifested in his film has vanished to the extent that he wouldn’t make his movie today. “I think the circumstances have changed, and the people have changed,” he says, noting that
Anytime Cafe, which used to offer cheap drinks and provided a space for his production free of charge, no longer exists. “It’s gotten to be so expensive that I don’t know how anybody that can call themselves artists and live there. At the time, it was interesting, but I don’t feel the flame the way I felt it four years ago.””
December 22, 2009 No Comments
“Greendale, G.P.” Opens August 27th at Access Theatre!
“Greendale, G.P.” Commercial from brad saville on Vimeo.
STARRING: Carmel Amit, Sam Antar, William Apps, Penny Bittone, Amber Bogdewiecz, Anne Fidler, Tyler Foltz, Anna Lamadrid, David Marcus, Zoe Metcalfe-Klaw, Jimmy Pravailis, & Paul Weissman
Physicians with God-complexes, Domestic Abuse, High School Shootings, Reality TV, and Pharmaceutical Salesmen: Welcome to “Greendale, G.P.” Brad Saville’s latest play takes a hard-hitting satirical look at the absurdity of the American Medical Industrial Complex, the Pompousness of our Physicians, the Pill-Popping Populous, the Bankruptcy of American Culture and Contemporary Values. Bring your insurance card, and please come twenty-minutes early.
August 27th - Septmeber 13th, 2009
Thursdays - Sundays at 8pm; Saturday, August 29th at 2 pm
the gallery at access theatre
380 Broadway, #4 (corner of white street)
July 7, 2009 No Comments
“Yermo Blues” Published in the 2009 NY Theatre Review
I am pleased to announce that one of my shorter plays, “Yermo Blues“, will be published in the Spring 2009 edition of the NY Theatre Review. Performed in Blue Box Production’s September 2008 “Sticky” Series, “Yermo Blues” was one of ten plays selected by Blue Box (of the 200 or so that they’ve produced to date) to represent them in the NY Theatre Review 2009.
May 10, 2009 No Comments
New play “Dining Alone” goes up at Blue Box Productions “Sticky” and Ammoralists’ “Zeitgeist”
Dining Alone
Written and Directed by Brad Saville
Synopsis: A brother and sister meet and try to come to terms with mental illness.
Presented at Blue Box Productions “Sticky” Showcase: April 3rd, 2009
Presented at Amoralists’ “Zeitgeist” Showcase: April 20th, 2009
April 27, 2009 No Comments
“Williamsburg” Collector’s Edition DVD now Available For On-Line Purchase
The Collector’s Edition DVD has special features, including commentary with film critic John Lingan,Deleted Scenes, and Behind-the-Scenes.
$20 USD Includes Shipping, Handling, and Tax
November 10, 2008 No Comments
