Get Out: Help Make a Movie

We have to be honest: We were slightly annoyed when we read the email promoting Seattle School's (of Motel fame) latest event. Anything that calls an organization "insanely exuberant" and says that it is putting on one of the "craziest film events in the history of the city" is trying pretty hard to sound zany and exciting.

But as we told Seattlest Audrey, we're a sucker for weird (you should have seen us in college) and tonight's live remake of Andy Warhol's "Vinyl" called A Clockwork Reduction Live at the Northwest Film Forum fits the bill.

According to the folks who make up Seattle School, they love Warhol's 1956 adaptation of A Clockwork Orange which came out 6 years before Kubrick's version.

In fact, they think it's so super that they’ve decided to re-make it. But since they're an art collective, they're not just gonna get a bunch of actors, movie-making equipment and drugs, film what happens and then put it on YouTube. First of all, they’re not filmmakers, second, they don't like recorded media and finally, they don’t have the money for such an undertaking. Instead,

We've decided to remake "Vinyl", but actually we're going to let other artists remake it for us. We will restage the film as a live performance. And at the end of the performance, we will have a finished product that could be called a film. We're remaking "Vinyl" by breaking it into parts. We're remaking it by unmaking it.

You can see where the attention of the weird lover in us was grabbed.

Near as we can tell, the filming will happen in one room where an audience can watch a director tell actors what to do without using any words. Or their own ideas either, because in another room an audience watching the filming will be giving feedback to a roaming "studio head" who will be speaking to the directors in the first room via closed-circuit headphones. Meanwhile, in the screening room (where there will be a bunch of drinking going on), the "finished product" will be mixed live and projected in real time for people to watch.

We're intrigued to see what we find.

The filming is happening tonight and tomorrow at 9 pm at the Film Forum: 1515 12th Ave. Tickets are 15 bucks, $12 for Forum members. People with tickets for either night can go back on Sunday for free to watch the finished product while the filmmakers talk over it "just like on DVDs."