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things made together by lucas leyva and jillian mayer. we also help run the borscht corp. in miami, fla
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Kaiju Bunraku
Short Film, 2017
Available on the Criterion Collection
“Bewitching...A technical masterpiece” - IndieWire
“A singular vision executed with flawless abandon...a delight of hybrid vigour... fucking amazing... masterpiece” - Eye on Film
“The first Mothra film to make it to Sundance.... wickedly cool in conception and execution, staying true to the spirit of both Bunraku theater and Japanese Kaiju cinema.” - Unseen Films
“Whimsical sense of humor taken to the extreme, using everything from animation to art installations to expose the banality of contemporary life” - Remezcla
“Breathtakingly beautiful” - The Fountain
“25 Short Filmmakers to Watch at Sundance 2017” - New Machine
“Top 5 European Shorts of 2017″ - Cineuropa
“Best Short Films of 2017″ - The Skinny
“22 Must-See Latino Movies at Sundance” - Remezcla
Sundance Film Festival, 2017
Fantastic Fest, 2017 (Special Jury Mention for Biggest Facemelter)
Glasgow Short Film Festival, 2017
Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival, 2017
Festival de Cinema Fàntastico de Coruña, 2017
Montclair Film Festival, 2017
Chicago Critics Film Festival, 2017
Eastern Oregon Film Festival, 2017
Athens International Film+Video Festival, 2018 (Special Jury Mention)
Flatpack Film Festival, 2018
Brussels Independent Film Festival, 2018
RiverRun International Film Festival, 2018
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#PostModem
Short Film, 2013
“One of the 10 Most Stunning Independent Movies at Sundance” - Huffington Post
"Among the best, the strangest, and the most entertaining films at SXSW" - TIME Magazine
"Incomparable to anything you’ve ever seen" - Film School Rejects
"Unforgettable" - Beached Miami
"Blissful" - Huffington Post
“Sublime” - IndieWire
“Awesome” - 4 Star Film Threat Review
"Mind- and style-bending... uses the possibility of the singularity in our near future as a springboard to deliver one of the most visually assaultive, mildly terrifying and eerily humorous shorts I’ve seen in some time." - Filmmaker Magazine
“By equal measures surreal, provocative, and funny” - Next Projection
"'comedic satirical sci-fi pop-musical,'” perhaps the only compound-genre name apt to label a film based largely on transhumanist theory....a hobnob between the New Aesthetic movement and an inimitable hyperreal gusto, pilfering imagery from the Internet and the IRL world... datamoshing cultural memes and readying them for a full cognitive digestive cycle, often born from an angst that feels suburban in nature." - Miami Rail
"#PostModem is uncomfortable because the film swims in what we try to avoid. It turns the polyglottic yawp of the Youtube content/advertising blend into a bizarre, death-haunted anti-poetry. And for this reason, this film is worth the discomfort. It masters the superficial stylings of the YouTube video to discuss the spiritual and psychological ramifications of lives lived in the beige." - The Hygenic
Sundance Film Festival, 2013 (finalist, short film jury prize)
New York Film Festival, 2013
SXSW Film Festival, 2013
Sundance NEXT Weekend, 2013
Maryland Film Festival, 2013
Eastern Oregon Film Festival, 2013
Carte Blanche 25 Years of Filmmaker Magazine Retrospective, MoMA NY 2013
Atlanta Film Festival, 2013
Dallas Film Festival, 2013
Boston Underground Film Festival, 2013
Chicago International Music and Movie Festival, 2013
Silo Sessions Berlin 2013
Flatpack Film Festival, 2013
DeadCenter Film Festival, 2013
Northside Film Festival, 2013
Provincetown Film Festival, 2013
New Zealand Film Festival, 2013
New Orleans Film Festival, 2013
AFI Film Festival, 2013
La Di Da Film Festival, 2013
Citizen Jane Film Festival, 2013
Nevada City Film Festival, 2013
Minneapolis Underground Film Festival, 2013
Winterthur Film Festival, 2013
Sydney Underground Film Festival, 2013
Tacoma Film Festival, 2013
Imagine Science Film Festival NYC, 2013
Rooftop Film Screening Series, 2013
Key West Film Festival, 2013
Imagine Science Kaluga, Russia, 2013
SF Indiefest, 2013
Loft Film Festival, 2013
Outlier Film Festival, 2013
Imagine Amsterdam Film Festival, 2013
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Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke
Short Film, 2012
Film available on the Criterion Collection
“One of 25 essential shorts from over a century of cinema” - Keyframe
“Mind-blowing” - Filmmaker Magazine
“One of 10 shorts you must see at Sundance this year” - IndieWire
“5 Out of 5 Stars” - Film Threat Review
“One of the top 5 music films at Sundance” - MTV
"One of the most fun and fresh films at Sundance" - Movieline
“Uncle Luke is an incredibly original film, both in terms of its tone and the technique of its storytelling… Uncle Luke really taps into the popular culture of a specific generation, and it has a very healthy disrespect for convention and authority.” - Sundance Programmer
”Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke is undeniably entertaining, whether you get the cultural references or not. It is a smart and intricately self-reflexive example of what cultural theorist Jim Collins has called ‘the perpetual circulation and recirculation of signs that form the fabric of postmodern cultural life.’ Mayer and her collaborator are quintessential bricoleurs. In Uncle Luke, street-credible slang and classic booty beats reconstruct a landmark of film history. High and low, art and entertainment, fiction and reality become multiple facets of an intellectually-integrated work that specifically depends on cultural quotation. The parallels are both narrative and structural. Whereas La Jetee is constructed from stills, referencing the psychological relationship between photography and memory, Uncle Luke draws from the nostalgia power of Mayer’s two dimensional boards.“ - Art Papers review
”Dropping Uncle Luke’s odd, obnoxious personality into this artsy milieu actually feels somehow true to rap’s subversive, smart-dumb spirit… Freaky Times, out of the box and Sundance-approved, forms a boldly instructive example of how to redress the misrepresentations that have traditionally marred the genre’s mainstream record.“ - SPIN Magazine
Sundance Film Festival, 2012 (World Premiere)
SXSW Film Festival, 2012
Miami Art Museum (Permanent Collection)
BAMcinemafest, 2012
Milan Film Festival, 2012
AFI Film Festival, 2012
Los Angeles Film Festival, 2012
Rockland Shorts at the Farnsworth Art Museum 2012
Mecal International Film Festival, 2012
Atlanta Film Festival, 2012
Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2012
Sarasota Film Festival, 2012
Dallas Film Festival, 2012
Nashville Film Festival, 2012
Maryland Film Festival, 2012
Athens Film and Video Festival, 2012
DeadCenter Film Festival, 2012
CFC (Canadian Film Centre) Film Festival, 2012
Rooftop Film Screening Series, 2012
CinemaTeket Oslo, 2012
LA Shorts Film Festival, 2012
Boston Underground Film Festival, 2012 (Winner, Best Short Film)
USA Film Festival, 2012 (Finalist, Best Short Film)
Incubate Netherlands Film Festival, 2012
Provincetown Film Festival, 2012
Columbia Gorge Film Festival, 2012
Chicago Underground Film Festival, 2012 (Honorable Mention, Best Short Film)
HBO New York Latino Film Festival, 2012
Minneapolis Underground Film Festival, 2012
Atlantic Film Festival, 2012
New Orleans Film Festival, 2012
Raindance Film Festival, 2012
Eastern Oregon Film Festival, 2013
Vimeo Staff Pick
New York Times
Rolling Stone
LA Times
Featured in Wholphin #16
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Cool As Ice 2
Short Film, coming soon
“Mayer\Leyva approach their high-low culture mash-ups as though they’re the most natural thing in the world, so they’re never coy or cutesy, and Cool as Ice 2 proves them boundlessly resourceful artists, getting a maximum of coup de theater effect from a minimum of resources. It gets across more cinematic awe, feeling, unexpected humor, and take-home ideas than Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, in one-eighth the time and God knows what fraction of the budget." - Art Forum
“Side-splittingly funny...absolute showstopper...has the audacity to power a half dozen inspired features” - IndieWire
“Wildly clever, insanely absurd, and surprisingly emotionally compelling” - Bullett Media
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I Am Your Grandma
2011
Vice Premiere
YouTube 2,000,000 Club
Web Soup Spoof
CBS News
Tosh.0
SXSW Film Festival 2012
5 Out of 5 Stars (Film Threat Review)
Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (Optic Nerve)
Young at Art Children's Museum (Permanent Collection)
"As Mayer and her collaborator predicted, the video went viral immediately, with over 220,000 views in the first week. I Am Your Grandma was designed for mass appeal. Humor, short-attention-span pacing, and an addictive soundtrack make it as engaging as a Super Bowl commercial break... Mayer posits the video as a medium of lasting intergenerational communication, a way to accurately send the present into the future. She plays herself- the author- dressed in elaborate feature-distorting costumes inspired by the legendary performance artist Leigh Bowery. I Am Your Grandma leans towards the fictional. On the Internet, its intent and authenticity are totally undefined.
To date, Grandma has gotten over 1 million hits. It has been spoofed- mostly by kids. It has spawned micro-communities on Facebook and YouTube. Its title has entered the Urban dictionary as 'when something is really weird and terrifying and traumatizing in a way you can't forget.' Online comments highlight the majority disposition of the Internet community- many honed in on buried sexual undertones and Mayer's shocking costumes in sometimes crude and raw language. A few proposed marriage. Regardless of its unconventional exhibition history, I Am Your Grandma was originally produced for the art world, a context that does elicit more sophisticated viewer responses... teasing a slightly different interpretation: the definition of individual identities within the family structure. Here, family roles become fictional constructions shaped by stereotypical expectations.
The details of its technology-driven debut are in perfect step with its conceptual territory. It plays role games with popular media, the public, and the art world. Reception is central to the work: its fate the layers of interpretation it accrues as it crosses channels and institutions are almost as relevant as its message." - Art Papers
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Arcade Fire: Signs of Life
Music Video, 2017
“Guys. GUYS.Okay so at the end of the video there are messages written in symbols when the plants 'speak'. I managed to transcribe it using the rest of the text in the video.” - Some guy on Reddit
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Jacuzzi Boys: Glazin’
Music Video, 2012
We released this one as the "Jacuzzi G@ls," calling it a fan video. It promptly got banned from everywhere (not before getting a half million views in 36 hours on YouTube). Even the label tried to disown it, sent us cease and desist letters, etc. For legal reasons, the official website had to be hosted on the same Swedish server that is home to NAMBLA, Wikileaks, et al. We stay in character for interviews and twitter.
Official Website
Brooklyn Vegan
OC Weekly
Bullett Media
SXSW Film Festival 2012
4 Out of 5 Stars (Film Threat Review)
SXSW Panel 2013 (Case Study: Vagina Puppets and Fair Use)
"Best Music Video of the Year" - Eric Wareheim (Tim and Eric)
"Worst Music Video Ever. Ruined vaginas for me." - Joseph Kahn (Director of Thong Song Music Video)
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Hundred Waters: Boreal
Music Video, 2013
Pitchfork Premiere
Vimeo Staff Pick
"Beautifully weird" - Orlando Weekly
"The aquatic tranquility of 'Boreal' gets visualized with ravaging monsters, deadly forests, and mermaid-scattered waters. It’s all very DIY fantasy, where the strings aren’t too hidden, but if you use your imagination, it all looks startling real." - Consequence of Sound
"Striking and sort of frightening... The whole thing manages to be endearing and really creepy at the same time" - CMJ
"On some real Lucio Fulci shit, interrupting its beautifully shot bucolic grainy nature photography for monster violence. It’s pretty awesome." - Stereogum
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