{"id":8404,"date":"2014-09-19T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=8404"},"modified":"2014-09-18T21:31:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T03:31:34","slug":"iow-filing-it-for-the-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=8404","title":{"rendered":"IOW: Filing it FOR THE RECORD"},"content":{"rendered":"

It might be of interest to our dearest collegiate readers that regular weekly meetings of the Illini Film & Video<\/strong><\/span><\/a> club at the University of Illinois<\/strong> will not be hosted in the Main Library<\/strong>, where their orientations took place<\/span><\/a>, but a venue quite familiar to past and present members! IFV will gather at 8 p.m.<\/strong> every Thursday in Room 104<\/strong> of the English Building<\/strong> when school is in session. (The next one will be Thursday, September 25<\/strong>. Plan ahead!) We can\u2019t emphasize enough the value of a group like IFV for secretly aspiring young filmmakers who attend an institution without a film school; former players have gone on to launch production companies from suburban Chicago<\/strong><\/span><\/a> to mainland China<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, funnel commercial success towards personal projects intended to help save lives<\/span><\/a>, and cement their status as prolific contributors to Champaign-Urbana<\/strong> film culture<\/span><\/a>. No one graduate of IFV \u2013 er<\/em>, UIUC \u2013 has achieved cinema rock star status in the world at large, but several have made movie gold all the same. That is<\/em> worth something.<\/p>\n

For today\u2019s Image of the Week<\/strong>, one of several imminent CUBlog<\/strong> posts highlighting examples of \u201cstudents on film at UIUC,\u201d we revisit a recent Web series-come<\/em>-programming staple on the university-owned cable channel UI-7<\/strong>. Mainly due to bad timing, we never got on the stick covering FOR THE RECORD<\/strong><\/span><\/a> when creator and then-senior A. Lawrence Dreyfuss<\/strong> first posted it as seven weekly installments in early 2012, and we\u2019ve grown to dig on this little mystery-comedy despite its weird narrative gait and student-budget production values. The story, such as it is, follows a placid young man named Steve \u201cStevie\u201d Darrie (Kyle Bullock<\/strong>) after he moves from Chicago to Champaign for a job that is never really defined. (This is par for the course as Dreyfuss selectively doles out the details.) Now working for the excitable Alvy Doyle (Kelson McAuliffe<\/strong>), Steve is talked into following a local murder case by his insistent coworker Berry (Nick Narcisi<\/strong>) that involves Mrs. Doyle (Gina Dunn<\/strong>) and Doyle\u2019s mistress Mary Silver (Sally Hamer<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

\"Kyle<\/p>\n

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The IFV participants of the time \u2013 Dreyfuss, Robbie McBeath, Christian Lorea, Ashlea Thomsen, Allie Rietz<\/strong>, etc. \u2013 made a good effort to infuse FOR THE RECORD<\/strong> with high energy as well as incorporate the C-U landscape to service Steve and Berry\u2019s adventure. While most minor characters are played rather broadly, Bullock provides a serviceable center of calm and Narcisi the needed counterpoint as a brassy, Cosmopolitan-drinking amateur detective. (Conversely, the latter delivered a surprisingly controlled take as an Earth-walking Devil in Dreyfuss\u2019 prior film short, the Depression<\/strong>-era fable HAD HE FIDELITY<\/strong><\/span><\/a> that played the New Art Film Festival<\/strong>.) Unlike most student filmmakers\u2019 penchant for adding well-known songs to their soundtracks for ready-made emphasis, Dreyfuss chose to smartly place cuts by C-U groups such as Sonny Stubble, The Duke of Uke<\/strong>, and World\u2019s First Flying Machine<\/strong>, even commissioning an original balladeer-style recap for Episode 6 that is charmingly sung by Nile Hawver<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

We recommend watching the episodes in succession<\/span><\/a> to get the most out of FOR THE RECORD<\/strong> \u2013 they often fill a 60-minute block on UI-7<\/span><\/a> from start to finish \u2013 although below you can preview two segments that feature our favorite set pieces. Episode 4 finds Steve and Berry at the scene of Mary Silver\u2019s murder, dramatized in flashback as a literal ballet of death. And in Episode 5, the duo quiz a concession worker (Shannon Stanis<\/strong>) at the Art Theater<\/strong>; her recollection of a show attended by the Doyles and Mary Silver is staged using theatrical lighting and split-screen photography that places the present and recent past in immediate proximity.<\/p>\n

After finishing his bachelor\u2019s degree in Media and Cinema Studies<\/strong> at UIUC, which included a semester-long stay at the Tisch School of the Arts<\/strong> of New York University<\/strong> to study filmmaking, Dreyfuss moved to Hawaii<\/strong> for two years and worked in a high school environment. He recently relocated to Los Angeles<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n


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From the \u201cImages of the Week\u201d Dept.: Round and round and round it goes (in the UI-7 schedule) and where it will stop, nobody knows! We provide belated love to the University of Illinois student-made series, FOR THE RECORD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,438,19,18,26,20],"tags":[621,1334,84,1335,1337,1336,951],"class_list":["post-8404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alums-done-good","category-dance-film","category-images-du-cu","category-student-film","category-theatres-venues","category-videos-du-c-u","tag-a-lawrence-dreyfuss","tag-for-the-record","tag-illini-film-video","tag-kyle-bullock","tag-mnlp-productions","tag-nick-narcisi","tag-the-duke-of-uke-and-his-novelty-orchestra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}