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One Ring Zero
Jonathan Ames
Dave
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Sophie Auster
Las Rubias Del Norte
Niabi
Clay
Joe Here
Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series
Lake County Film Festival
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One Ring Zero
As Smart As They Are documents the collaboration between the band One Ring Zero and an ensemble cast of award-winning authors.
After moving to New York, One Ring Zero’s founding members, Joshua Camp and Michael Hearst, discovered a curious unmarked store in Brooklyn that doubled as a makeshift office for McSweeney’s, an offbeat publishing company founded by author Dave Eggers. In addition to selling an odd assortment of products ranging from small rubber cubes to lumberjack supplies, the peculiar storefront also served as the venue for a weekly literary reading series that brought a variety of both burgeoning and established writers to the tiny space.
With Camp on accordion and Hearst on claviola, they soon began performing as the house-band for the series and ultimately invited a handful of authors to contribute lyrics. After receiving contributions from a wide range of celebrated writers, the duo then faced the challenge of setting this diverse compilation of lyrics to music.
Featuring live performances, studio sessions, and interviews with the writers and musicians, As Smart As They Are explores the relationships between music and literature while painting a portrait of the New York literary community that fostered the band.
McSweeney's, The Believer, The Paris Review, The New Yorker.
Featuring:
Dave Eggers
Paul Auster
Jonathan Lethem
Rick Moody
Jonathan Ames
Myla Goldberg
Darin Strauss
Amy Fusselman
Clay McLeod Chapman
and Lawrence Krauser
With:
Syd Straw
Olivier Conan
Allyssa Lamb
Scott Seeley
Jason Kellermeyer
and Krista Overby
Special Appearances by:
Viggo Mortensen
Rene Ricard
Alex Melamid
Peter Dinklage
Josh Hamilton
John Hodgman
Neal Pollack
Hanna Cheek
Niabi Caldwell
David Adamovich
Siri Hustvedt
Sophie Auster
and George Plimpton