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Frost

The Return of the Barberella of Sevilla

About Me

37 year old filmmaker and visual artist in downtown Los Angeles looking for friends, artists and collaborators of all sorts. In the process of getting my first feature film off the ground, Iook forward to making many more short films, feature films and large form photographic art works.My 22 minute short film 3STORIES ABOUT EVIL, featuring Mink Stole, Joe Dallesandro, Billy Drago, Erika Gavin, Lol Tolhurst, Barry Brisco, Suzette Belouin, Joey Krebs, just won the MOST EFFECTIVELY OFFENSIVE prize at the 2008 Boston Underground Film Festival.Shooting this fall: Woolsey Ackerman IS Judy Garland and Sam Hill IS Orson Welles in THE HARVEY GIRL FROM SHANGHAI! also starring Erika Gavin and Ronni Valentine.

My Interests

Film, Art, Avant-Garde, Sex, Andrzej Zulawski, Violence, Food, Children's Beauty Pageants, Pistachio Ice Cream, Disfunctional Families, Liberace, Giallo, Post-Punk, Sex, Murder, Stanley Kubrick, Colored Lights, Art Deco, Cameras, Sex, Graphic Arts, Film, Red Rotary Phones, Wonky McValtrex, Chuckles

I'd like to meet:

Scott Walker, Paul Verhoeven, John Lydon, Thomas Pynchon, Nicolas Roeg, Kimbra Pfhaler, Otto Muehl, Dusan Makavejev, Sharon Stone, Anna Biller, ............................................................ ............................................................ ........ In Heaven: Jesus Christ, Stanley Kubrick, Wendy O Williams, Kurt Vonnegut, Carmelo Bene, Dziga Vertov, RW Fassbinder, William Burroughs, Linda Lovelace, Jean Cocteau, Jean Pierre Melville, Sergio Leone, Frank Tovey, John Lennon, Liberace, Michaelangelo Antonioni, Ingmar Bergman

Music:

Fad Gadget, Joy Division, Las Grecas, The Knife, Scott Walker, Johnny Lydon, Public Image Limited, Ennio Morricone, Crass, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Current '93, Death from Above 1979, The Cure, Metallica, Kraftwerk, Danielle Dax, Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, The Ramones, Merzbow, Roxy Music, Ladytron, The Creatures, Death in June, The Glove, Bjork, The Smiths, Jim Thirlwell, Foetus, The Legendary Pink Dots, Nick Cave, The Human League, The Plasmatics, Wendy O. Williams, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Peaches, Beethoven, Bach, Joy Division, New Order, The Sugarcubes, Clinic, Interpol, Bonnie Prince Billy, The Microphones, Will Alden, Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, The Sisters of Mercy, Can, Faust, Le Dusseldorf, SPK, The Creatures, The Ramones, CHIC, Porter Ricks, Dolly Parton, Dead or Alive, CRASS, Eurythmics, Iggy Pop, DAvid Bowie, The Misfits, Led Zeppelin, Diamanda Galas, Glass Candy, Simian Mobile Disco, Chungking, Dolly Parton, Frieda Parton, The Germs, CRASS, ABBA, The Cure, Kraftwerk, Logic System, YMO, Perez Prado, Beethoven, Mahler, Benjamin Britten, Soft Cell, Dead or Alive, The Gravedigger V, The Cramps, The Human League, Grace Jones, Cerrone, Miles Davis, Curve, ABBA!

Movies:

Cria Cuervos, Bad Boy Bubby, Alexandra's Project, Control, No Country for Old Men, Barry Lyndon, The Earrings of Madame De..., The Tracker, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Fox & His Friends, Alice Sweet Alice, Les Amants De Pont Neuf, PolA X, Sid & Nancy, Blade Runner, Flamenco, Carmen, Bodas De Sangre, Deprisa! Deprisa!, Peppermint Frappe, The Hunger, Wakefield Poole's LA Plays Itself, Emanuelle in America, Young Lady Chatterly, Breaking the Waves, Zentropa, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Bilbao, Anguish, Caniche, Belle De Jour, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1975), Night of the Livind Dead (1968), Dawn of the Dead (1979), Land of the Dead, Martin, Creepshow, Monkey Shines, Andrej Zulawski's Possession, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Duck You Sucker!, L.A. Plays Itself, The Image, Long Jeanne Silver, The Witches, Deep Red, Black Book, The Proposition, The Manson Family, Body Double, Happiness, Women in Love, Altered States, The Devils, Cockfighter, The Boston Strangler, Dancer in the Dark, Dogville, Lifeforce, Petulia, Heaven's Gate, The Deer Hunter, Golden Balls, Viridiana, Opera, Suspiria, Once Upon a Time in the West, Once Upon a Time in America, Santa Sangre, El Topo, The Holy Mountain, All About My Mother, Bad Education, Volver, Talk to Her, Fat Girl, Los Olvidados, Performance, White of the Eye, Donald Cammel's Wild Side, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession, Walkabout, Don't Look Now, The Tin Drum, The 4th Man, Basic Instinct, Showgirls, Total Recall, Robocop, Flesh + Blood, Opera, Eyes Wide Shut, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, Hold Me While I'm Naked, The Departed, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Kundun, Lost Highway, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire, The Passenger, L'Avventura, Salo and the 120 days of Sodom, Beau Travail, Trouble Every Day, Twitch of the Death Nerve, Canni Arribati, Rabid Dogs, Kidnapped, Shock, Black Sunday, Black Sabbath, Hatchet for a Honeymoon, Lisa and the Devil, Mademoiselle, The Hotel New Hampshire, Tom Jones, A Taste of Honey, Blue Sky, Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, Desperate Living, Serial Mom, Polyester, The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon, Baise-Moi, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Vixen, SuperVixens, Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill!, The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Ms. Osbourne, Immoral Tales, Aguirre:The Wrath of God, My Best Fiend, Lessons in Darkness, Grizzly Man, Cache, The Piano Teacher, Funny Games, Children of Men, Y Tu Mama Tambien, La Comunidad, El Dia de la Bestia, Perdita Durango, Cambio de Sexo, Juana La Loca, Amantes, Mouchette, Sweet Movie, WR: Mysteries of the Organism, Swimming Pool, The Night Porter, Viva La Muerte, Purple Noon, Images, Short Cuts, Year of the Dragon, The Big Red One, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, The Wild Bunch, Bitter Moon, Emmanuelle, The Entity, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, AKA, Mommie Dearest, Irreversible, Emanuelle in America, Forbidden Zone, Audition, Valley Girl, Match Point, Alice Sweet Alice, Spetters, The Moon in the Gutter, Diva, Betty Blue, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Saturday Night Fever, Immoral Tales, The Witches, Full Metal Jacket, Monsieur Hire, Vertigo, Rear Window, Frenzy, Repulsion, The Pianist, Frantic, Bitter Moon, Rosemary's Baby, The Wizard of OZ, Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural, performance.

Television:

TVCARNAGE!, The Bionic Woman (old one), Isis, Good Times, The Sopranos, Nighty Night, Absolutely Fabulous, The Autopsy Files, Hookers at the Point, The Robin Byrd Show, Midnight Blue, The Simpsons, Twilight Zone, Pee Wee's Playhouse, Mary Hartman Mary Hartman, The Night Stalker (original) and Nighty Night

Books:

The Story of the Eye, The Catcher in the Rye, Naked Lunch, Crackpot, Shock Value, Easy Riders Raging Bulls, The Other Hollywood, The Ghastly One, Big Busoms and Square Jaws, Ramona Quimby, The Story of O, Naked Lunch, Last Exit to Brooklyn, The Handmaid's Tale, Dirty Weekend, Koko, Gerald's Game, Flowers in the Attic

Heroes:

My parents, Veri Knotty, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Paul Verhoeven, Frank Tovey, Las Grecas, Zoe Tamerlis Lund, Sylvia Kristel, Pina Bausch, Dziga Vertov, Kimbra Pfhaler, Scott Walker, John Waters, Mink Stole, Cookie Mueller, Legs McNeil, Linda Manz, Erica Gavin, Joe Dallesandro, Liberace, Udo Kier, Jessica Harper, Grace Jones, Michael Haneke, Jimmy McDonough, Javier Bardem, Victoria Abril, Carmen Maura, Meryl Streep, Georges Bataille, Klaus Kinski, Wendy O. Williams, Helen Zahavi, Ian Curtis, Margaret Atwood, Ramona Quimby, Jesus Christ, Walter Reuben, Gary Indiana, Rod Serling, Danielle Dax, Frank Tovey, Sergio Leone, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Sidney Sheldon, Marguerite Duras, Luis Buñuel, Andrejz Zulawski, William Friedkin, Liberace, Ian Curtis, Andrzej Zulawski

My Blog

Anna Biller’s VIVA

Anna Biller's first feature VIVA opened at the Sunset 5 last friday and it's one hell of a film! Taking place during the swinging seventies in Southern California, VIVA is the story of Barbie, a subu...
Posted by Frost on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:44:00 PST

3STORIES ABOUT EVIL wins at THE BOSTON UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL

My 22 minute film 3STORIES ABOUT EVIL played this weekend at the Boston Underground Film Festival, where it picked up the "Most Effectively Offensive" award.http://bostonunderground.org/awards.htm...
Posted by Frost on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:12:00 PST

Making Dorian Woods THE MUTUAL mini-movie.

This past weekend, I directed and edited a music video for Dorian Wood's song "The Mutual" from his debut album BOLKA. I've known Dorian for about two years or so, and have been very fond of him as a...
Posted by Frost on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 01:27:00 PST

THE END OF THE PUPPET SHOW FOR KARL ROVE

"Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again"-Bertolt Brecht - The Resistable Rise of Arturo UiW has been...
Posted by Frost on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:37:00 PST

THE DISPASSIONATE FUCKING OF THE HOMELESS

Saturday August 11I was walking up Cesar Chavez Avenue headed towards Chinatown and I saw something strange several feet ahead of me. I saw a homeless woman up against a fence while a dirty bearded w...
Posted by Frost on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:36:00 PST

MICHAELANGELO ANTONIONI 1912-2007

A day after the death of cinema legend Ingmar Bergman, another legend Michaelangelo Antonioni has passed away at the age of 94. I had the pleasure and luck to see Signore Antonioni in Los Angeles at ...
Posted by Frost on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:13:00 PST

Roger Michael Watkins, director of LAST HOUSE ON DEAD END STREET

Roger Michael Watkins by MichaelFrostUpstate New York is a fucked up place to grow up in. My childhood ambition was to get out, and I knew if I didn't leave, I would end up killing myself. There wa...
Posted by Frost on Tue, 01 May 2007 08:13:00 PST