Stephen Costantino

Guest

Stephen Costantino is a Producer, Musician and Creature Suit Actor, widely known as the Gamorrean Guard on Jabba the Hutt's barge in Return of the Jedi. In the early 1980s, he formed the band, "Atmosphere" with funk bassist and friend, Corey Dee Williams, son of and stand-in for Lando Calrissian actor, Billy Dee Williams. As a session guitarist, Stephen has played for New Edition, Bel Biv Devoe and The Black Eyed Peas.

Liz Tabish

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Liz Tabish is an actress and filmmaker based in Austin, TX. Her style of filmmaking is guerilla, lo-fi arthouse inspired by 1960-70s European cinema. She received her BA in Film Theory and MA in Directing/Theater from Oklahoma State University. She co-produces at Maenad Films and is co-director of Austin Arthouse Film Festival. She's currently working on an anthology series of vintage horror short films focused on female archetypes entitled Tales From the Dancing Maenads.

Miskatonic 1927

Film

Clark Ashton Smith and a reluctant H.P. Lovecraft begin an English translation of the infamous grimoire: The Necronomicon.

Benjamin Capps

Guest

Award winning filmmaker and stop motion animator Benjamin Capps came to Chicago after receiving his degree in Theatre from the University of Missouri, Columbia. While an undergraduate, Benjamin founded The Inner Below in order to produce his own experimental theatre, with an emphasis on expanding on Antonin Artaud's theories of Theatre of Cruelty. Having written, directed, produced and acted in numerous stage-productions, Benjamin transitioned to film-making, now having made nine short-films.

Marko Kattilakoski

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Marko Kattilakoski had been a musician/songwriter for over 20 years, when an old friend confronted him with the question: “Marko, shouldn’t we make films?” The question resulted in the 17th century lovecraftian horror/drama "Forlorn Hope" screened at the HPLFF in Portland 2009. Director/writer/producer Marko Kattilakoski began writing the script for "The Music of John Low" three years ago, involved actors and crew, many of them previously involved in the two award winning films, "Coffee Break" (2012) and "The Terrible Typewriter" (2015).

Corpse

Film

Corpse is a surreal adaptation of the classic supernatural anthology "The King in Yellow" by Robert W. Chambers. A C-list reality TV star, her best friend and a group of young entrepreneurs encounter a forbidden book which induces madness in those who read it. Shifting between moments from their interwoven stories and bizarre visions, the film used a kaleidoscope of psychedelic imagery and atmospheric sound design to move through a viscerally mesmeric journey.

Hammer of the Gods

Film

Hammer of the Gods is the story of falling-from-grace rock group, Sled Dog, half a decade after the release of their hit single, Backfire. Since Backfire, they have only put out one album—a critical and financial failure. After another lackluster tour, guitarist and songwriter, Eric Patrick, is ready to throw in the towel to the dismay of his friend and bandmate, Olivia Greenwood.

Rebeccah's Statement

Film

Rebeccah answers a craigslist add seeking help. Desperate for money, she agrees to assist in a bizarre experiment which terrifyingly goes according to plan.

The Fabric

Film

In a strange, dark asylum, a brilliant physicist with no memory, sits incarcerated. One thing occupies his mind: escaping - to what or where, he has no clue. Haunted day and night, by creatures that roam the halls - or his imagination, he scribbles equations on every surface of his his cell. Not knowing whether he is insane, or on to something truly groundbreaking, every combination of symbols etched onto the walls might be the key to his escape, or just his madness laughing back at him. One day he has a breakthrough…

Phototaxis

Film

“Phototaxis” draws parallels between Mothman, a prophetic and demonized creature in West Virginia lore, and Narcotics Anonymous, the main treatment program in West Virginia’s addiction epidemic. Rooted in nonfiction, this film contemplates synchronicity and the role of belief systems in perception; the tendency to assign supernatural meaning to tragedy and the unknowable; anonymous and apocryphal oral histories; and the moth to the flame.

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