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About Me

My name is Mark Thimijan and my latest short film is The Girl who could run 600 miles per hour shot on 35mm anamorphic. More can be discovered by visiting my website www.600films.com Thank you for stopping by.The Girl who could run 600 mph is now for sale on DVD as part of The Working Man Trilogy. click here to purchase
Synopsis:
An average office worker becomes trapped in a meaningless routine. Every morning, he is forced to move aside for a larger man who will not acknowledge his existence. Inside the office, he tries to connect with a beautiful, self-centered co-worker who always empties the coffee pot right befoe he enters the breakroom. When his week continues to get worse, he heads out of town to get away from the daily grind. A chance encounter with a girl who can run 600 miles per hour changes his outlook on life forever.
Purchase the Girl who could run 600 miles per hour now on DVD as the second part of The working man trilogy. The trilogy consists of:
Part I: Consumer in Training.
Part II: The Girl who could run 600 miles per hour.
Part III: Mister Coffey.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Filmmakers, Directors, Cinematographers, actors.

Movies:

Aguirre The Wrath of God, Stroszek, The Wanderers, Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, Seven Samurai, Rashomon, The Last Temptation of Christ, Taxi Driver, After Hours, That Obscure Object of Desire, Belle De Jour, The Exterminating Angel, Straw Dogs, Brazil, Dead Man, Mystery Train, Breaking the Waves, About Schmidt, Living in Oblivion, Stardust Memories, Everything you always wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask, Barton Fink, THX 1138, Vertigo, Over the Edge, Blue Velvet, Eraserhead, The 400 Blows, Weekend, Midnight Cowboy, The Tin Drum, Brewster McCloud, My Life to Live, 8 1/2, Trust, Day for Night, Shadows, Last Year at Marienbad, Medium Cool, Repulsion, Seven Beauties, Requiem for a Dream, Buffalo '66, Julien Donkey-Boy, Lonely are the Brave, Ballad of a Soldier, The Blue Angel, The Cook the thief His Wife and Her Lover, Amores Perros, Ashes and Diamonds, The Indian Runner, Walkabout, The Duellists, Fitzcarraldo, Two Men and a Wardrobe, Mishima, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Fucking Amal, The Last Detail, Liquid Sky, The Beguiled, Umberto D, The Heart of the World, I Love You Alice B. Toklas!

Television:

Why?

Books:

Notes from Underground, Tropic of Cancer, Still life with Woodpecker

My Blog

Damnation

I watched a film last night from Hungary made in 1988 by the director Bela Tar called Damnation. Nothing really happens, but yet many things are happening. I love films that can manage to put me int...
Posted by MARK THIMIJAN on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:49:00 PST

Away shooting my next film.

Starting this Saturday November 3rd I will be out and about shooting my ass off. I've scheduled a 90 page script feature film to be shot in 14 days during the course of 16 days. This is th...
Posted by MARK THIMIJAN on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:31:00 PST

Need extras for movie on Thursday November 8th

Hey, if you want to be an extra in my next movie here's a good opportunity. I need extras of any age range to come to the Pla Mor Ballroom 6600 West O St. in Lincoln on Thursday November 8t...
Posted by MARK THIMIJAN on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:50:00 PST

Lincoln Journal Star Newspaper Article and Interview about me

Check it out!http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2007/08/26/news/loca l/doc46d0df26b96f8912544889.txt...
Posted by MARK THIMIJAN on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 02:29:00 PST

Meeting David Lynch

I met the filmmaker David Lynch this past weekend in Fairfield, Iowa. I was so struck by how friendly, warm, cool, passionate, down to earth, funny, and available he was. I had two encounters with h...
Posted by MARK THIMIJAN on Tue, 29 May 2007 02:28:00 PST

Magnolia Independent Film Festival

Okay, so I've decided to go. The word around the scene is meals are paid for and all the filmmakers stay together in the same house(probably worth the price of admission right there). I'm ...
Posted by MARK THIMIJAN on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:03:00 PST

Brilliant Light Film Festival

Very cool, my film is to show at the Brilliant Light International Film Festival of Los Angeles Feb 28th - Mar 4th. The plan is to fly in, watch some films, see some old friends, meet some new o...
Posted by MARK THIMIJAN on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:42:00 PST

Kermit the Frog

The world's in a bad way...There's been a trend lately for everyone to be healthy, yet the population is as obese as it's ever been. Still the T.V. and the radio hammer it home..."Get checked for can...
Posted by MARK THIMIJAN on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:16:00 PST

Second Review

2006Rated: UnratedGenre: Drama ShortDirected By: Mark ThimijanRunning Time: 21 MinutesReview by: Felix Vasquez Jr.Review Date: 9/28/06THE GIRL WHO COULD RUN 600 MILES PER HOUR! ...
Posted by MARK THIMIJAN on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:02:00 PST

First Review

Title: The Girl who could run 600 miles per hourDirector: Mark ThimijanCountry: USARating: 8Reviewer: moss The independent film is something Ive always been drawn too. The ideas and creativity are oft...
Posted by MARK THIMIJAN on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:31:00 PST