Beware of The Hotdog People (2002, 5 minutes, 16mm-to-video)
Dead to the World and It’s Only Tuesday (1998, 5 minutes, 8mm-to-video)
Disco Man (1997, 6 minutes, video)
Radiation Can Give You Brain Tumors (1997, 16 minutes, video)
Mother and Son (1997, 16 minutes, video)
Overmodulated Marriage (2004, 16 minutes, 16mm-to-video)
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (2006, 30 minutes, 16mm/DV. Made in collaboration with Bogdan Szabo.)
Total running time: ca. 100 minutes.
Presented by Jeff Krulik
An evening years in the making, cult documentarian Jeff Krulik (HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT, OBSESSED WITH JEWS, I CREATED LANCELOT LINK) joins us to celebrate the truly unique achievements of underground cinema’s clown prince, Matthew Silver. This retrospective features the certifiable underground classic MOTHER AND SON, bewildering selections from the early years (BEWARE THE HOT DOG PEOPLE, DISCO MAN), and the latest, astonishing collaboration with Bogdan Szabo, IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME. The latter work more than proves that the only filmmaker who could possibly eclipse Matthew Silver…is Matthew Silver.
“Matthew Silver is an artist, a visionary, a cosmological jester, and one of the most uniquely original talents to have emerged from the swamps of Jersey. Every Sunday he’s out on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn performing under the name Chicken Nuts. He’s the personification of a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma – and he’s also one heck of a filmmaker.” –Jeff Krulik
“Matthew’s shorts are hard to describe, but if you like the absurdity of The Kipper Kids, the chaotic onslaught of Shinya Tsukamoto’s TETSUO: THE IRON MAN, the ‘wtf?’ of John Boorman’s ZARDOZ, and the low-budget, gritty, awkwardness of the Kuchar Brothers, imagine all of those elements magnified and drawn out for 90 minutes.” –Skizz Cyzyk, MARYLAND FILM FESTIVAL/MICROCINEFEST
When it’s love you feel it may be surreal. Or real or fake or something else but it’s love you feel then it’s love you feel and then it’s real. Real strong Real awakening. You are shining you are real.
it’s overated X. free dom comes and goes. everything does the same thing over again. passing thoughts and ideas. clinging monkies mostly I am. stuck as a monkey. what is the foundation. I chose restart. Restart is my foundation. but only in moderation. only sometimes. It is me again I am talking about.
I create my equation for inner peace balance. Is to agree or to believe in death. truth is death but in a good way. ten times a good positive bubble again.
Restart command will help me. So now I restart breath nothing. Start. What do I start with? Apply question get answer.
I want to start with routine, ritual. my routine my ritual is restart bubble pop. breath nothing.
A job, a job I have a job now. with regular hours. slow mind starts cycle learn in cycles. restart
my quest. I now work from start with one thing to improve one thing focus and make it your quest. one thing. wake up at 7 am everyday consistently for one week. put all your focus in that one thing. but start with tommorrow. start with now. what if I fail over and over and over go back to foundation repeat REstart over and over again. but take notes. one thing 7 lucky 7. won’t work today though stayed up all night do I stay up all day now or nap Leave to go on bus at 10am. so at least I will be tired tomorrow to sleep at 10pm and up at 7 yes. the answer is yes if want to really finally succeeed at something simple.
Restart again now. present tence. do what you have to do it’s important again.
is a practice. If things are important 2 u. you will take that path. What’s in your head is of most impotance. Ask yourself questions. It’s a mind game. ask a question breath repeat. answer. All the answers are inside. Whats your most important question. Remember your foundation where am I where do I stand? but don’t take it seriously but take it seriously. Ideas should inspire u to take the next step. Where am I?
I am home.
Where do I stand?
Who am I? What do I want to do with my life?
answer with breath certainty.
I want to be a clown, but not just the same old clown, I want to take it to the next level clown. and now go to sleep. wake and Start where do I start? Where does this story take me? Ask more questions. start with one thing and let grow.
interaction with people are important, don’t take encounters for granted even if they do suck. We live sometimes (the key word speaks truth because sometimes never ends and never starts.
A good foundation to start with is flexibility. Flexibility is a skill but you only get to practice through do ing the process. Foundation, flexibility is a skill foundation is where you start. The budha says see life in moments. RESTART is connected to flexibility. Don’t freak out everytime you have to restart. Restart is an idea to help with flexibility. Can you practice the idea of restart, can you create your own vocabulary. Can you make a restart button. What feelings do you need. You need nothing. Restart is going back to nothing again. seeing what you have and restarting again. our minds analyze then need time to restart. Our minds analyze. It’s the process of on and off. beyond logic. Things don’t go according to equation or plan, then relax breath in and out nothing, see the equation through fresh eyes. It’s a practice. Life is a practice, because if you unconciously screw up you can get stuck and then conciously stuck.
do you have a problem. Perhaps you have no problem. where do you start? Where do I start?
It is goal to achieve balance, balance starts in the body and mind. Start there. Relize the infinite allows you to start where ever you want. but the truth is one small step at a time. Routine and ritual are also very important. this tools help.
but first you must create your foundation. or you will have problems or not. A foundation is initial process of how you think, so you can always be alright with what you think.
Repeat is what you think, but repeat doesn’t happen. Neither does this, the tree is falling all the time. motion is happening, I can’t stop, perhaps I’m dissconnect. nothing is inspiring. The game what is the game and these are the rules. eVerybody makes there own. Take notes.
the connection spirit: giving, — give spiritually and intentionally with no strings attach at least four times a week.
completing spirit — do what your going to say your going to do, if you call, call, If your going to meet, meet. but practicing doing only what you say and not making what u say too complicated.
forgiving spirit. — you forget I forget we all forget we all get stuck, or make mistakes forgive making mistakes over and over. It’s a holy moment, all of your forgiving is a holy moment. forgive everybody who screwed you have. Easy to say hard to do.
Understand you are everything. Take the responsibility of a god even though your not a god, but the word god is old idea. new idea, new idea you are creator. You are a focal point. and there are infinite other points. your a point. by the way even if you don’t feel like your not doing what you feel like your suppose to be doing know that that’s a feeling, because your always doing what your suppose to doing. to live in the moment is to be a god, old idea. even doubt is what you do. when you have it, the wrong feeling remind yourself this will pass because it does, if you dwell on it never passing it will do exactly that, it’ll never pass never again. be even after your worrying it’s ok, you get to rest again, and try again later. Planet earth is very important even though it’s not important. We have more then 6 billion focal points…… Someone has to somehow evolve our process, if we want to stay. We say we don’t care, but at the end you always do care.
THAT’S why it’s important to die now, die before you die. but lets just LIVe it. We are fragile beings. Who will help us work together. The realization is not one but everybody together. together again. One will be one will be one, the realization that this babble and what you do now is important. Everything is important. and your bound to succeed.
perhaps I should listen to me which is actually everybody. says mind chatter. the words mean nothing but coming closer to what is on the mind. energy transfered to words. interesting or not, the way it is the way it is. and my words and your words are is and everybody transfers depending on their inner space energy. No ones guilty being themself it just is what it is what it is.
Don’t be lazy with your _______. YOUr _________ is of most importance, don’t feel hopelessly hopeless hopelessly hopeless. Forget about your __________ for now. Move on to the next idea. Your allowed if you allow yourself. Being able to allow yourself. _____________ is yours now.
and then they did come from outer space. and then your like no big new deal. so now your apathetic and pathetic. I now you want out but slow and surely your bound to succeed to the duck.
I why did I decide to make that move because I like when the cosmos has a real good hand and part in my question. I’ve made it obvious again haven’t eye? Well I have. Take away, give away and recieve.
I have taken my toll and time to do what’s necessary in life to live it without it. but to be in it and enjoy it. Don’t reject what you want, accept apart of everything and you will soon learn new stuff and more open more slowly and ready. Because easy does it, it says
Being a jerk I am not. I am trying to do what I have without deflecting. I calmly take my position in the game. I expect no rejection. How can you reject what is beautifool me. and beautiful you and toot toot your old horn bag of trucks.
Leader in and out of you. Leader inside of me, and outside of me. People hate to see there bad habits through other people. Why I say that because of me. Seeing my habits make me irritable. I see me everywhere. Which is everything. I am everything, everywhere. and your allowed because here there are no rules, nobody will get hurt, only you and you multiplied.
Now I know there is no big deal. towards a popcorn promotion this was very good. And I could finally tell that I felt your energy and this time it was real. Before 5 percent. but every chance we get the percentage goes up. Thinking of numbers and calculations applying it to me brain and giving it the chance to get a prize. It will succeed under the revolution that is really hear whether we want it or not. Change and adaptable friendly habits are yours to keep and mine
You know all of the scenes are ok. but better then that there is something else I want to show you. I’ve done this writing before, or before or before I should.
By dividing into certain factors and helping the universe doing what it wants anyway. It will continue to do it because it never started and stopped without me anyway, so what does me have to do with anything. All of us together making a call out to the wild animal spiritual performance ritual trance again.
None of my ideas are my own but I want ownership. so I can make a decent living. I want more then a decent living, a decent wife, and a decent french fry, not saturated in too much fat. I want to work together too.
We are a big fancy thing of magic working together. I would say we never stop working together. We must remember never started, never stopped. I don’t think you can’t disagree, to that idea or you can. and you have that option and see where will that get you.
When sand needs something, it never does and so the newest moment needs, wants nothing. Ideally speaking the way it should be. Not realizing that this is a fragment of how your feeling. and not really getting intellectual about the whole thing and over analyzing. But only because you might like puzzles. And you like to stay in puzzle land. and you are once again stuck to the process of doing but doing with intention, because it is important to feel more out of the intention. You do it anyway. There’s always a reason, something always comes before something. everything happens and happens. A domino effect to the illusion eye. Recognizing another illusion after another, for now your anti-introvert.
Or was that just me. Or was that just us. or was it just happening all over again. repeating and understanding even lame principles. But what makes principles lame, you do. You make everything, everything. Your an everything everything machine.
There wasn’t any later to be pronounced. Now multiplied. Aggressive behavior. Now I’m tired of that. That’s just the way it is now. I’m capable of moving on and so are you. Realizing all of us are human and all of us are grown up. And now it’s clicking the same ideas, the same ideas over and over and over and over again.
It turns out I was just talking to myself this whole time. Was it a big surprise. They tell me it’s my display, well I think people like my display. My real definition of who I am, I am it. I think I have to take back a few steps. You can’t hold back. Get through your ego parts that matter.
Space life is only for the professionals. Take from us we are the PRos. Me, Nutty, New Nuts and chicken dancer. Chicken dancer is alive thank Gawd! Moon, lets go to the moon anyway.
That’s ok, give up, who needs you anyway. Just don’t do something stupid. Like become a chicken and get sued. Mean stuff all around this planet. You got to watch out.
My head burns out. but I still have internal space. Infinety inside and out. except my infinity inside is a different infinity outside, but others tell me it’s one and one and one and one.
