Official Selections:
2012 -International Film Festival Rotterdam (Premiere) // Independent Film Festival of Boston // FEST- New Directors New Films (Competition) // Festival De Cine Inusual de Buenos Aires // 2013- MARFICI - Foco Cine Unusual // 2014 - Festival Ibereoamericano de Cine Digital - Foco Cine Inusual
Filmed in France, Canada, and USA, The Whirlpool is a throwback to the vibrantly experimental period of late sixties cinema centered on the chance meeting between two people ready to break out of their routine. Free-form and mostly improvised with influences ranging from Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, Jack Cardiff's The Girl on The Mototcycle, and Stanley Donen's Two For The Road.
Details 77min/Color/Sound/USA in French with English Subtitles
featuring Pierre Perrier and Agathe Feoux
produced by Alvin Case & Pierre Perrier / music by Claudia Carty
Documents/Interviews
The Whirlpool at International Film Festival Rotterdam
C7NEMA interview (Portuguese)
OFFICIAL SELECTION: Chandler International Film Festival 2016
A micro-budget 2800 mile road/head trip ending at Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in Utah. The soundtrack floating the whole trippy nature is by (The Sounds Of) Kaleidoscope, one of the very best contemporary psychedelic bands in the USA at the time. The results are chaotic, somethings confusing, and often funny.
Catch Damien's music here: https://soundcloud.com/flash-hits
Details 66min/Color/Sound
featuring Gordon C. Ramsey and Adeline Schneider
produced by Gordon C. Ramsey & Alvin Case / music by Damien Taylor and (The Sounds Of) Kaleidoscope
sound: Willie Watkins ( aka—Barely Alive )
edited by Johanna Gomez
Analogue combines domestic melodrama, classical music, and science fiction in a tale about a former prodigy haunted by the death of a student during his experimentation with aural portraits, sound recordings using the electrical impulses of the human body. Part homage to Doctor Phibes and Orson Welles, it owes no small part to the influence of Pere Portabella and his fantastically surreal cinema.
Details 80min/Color/Sound
featuring Debra Cooke, Darcy Kuronen, and Suzana Mihajlica
executive producer Glen Macura
produced by Glen Macura & Alvin Case / Music by Darcy Kuronen
Based on a Fritz Leiber Jr. science-fiction short story, Game For Motel Room centers on an itinerant man brought in for an unspecified job, which leads to a night on the town with a very tall and strange woman who could be from another galaxy.
Details: 80min/Color/Sound
featuring Pierre Perrier and Lucy Owen
Produced by Glen Macura & Alvin Case / screenplay adaptation by Edward Case / Edited by Jenn Druchniak & Alvin Case
Production Design: David Marks / Assistant DOP: Janine Fonte / Sound: Djim Reynolds /Art Direction: Jennifer Watkins
Notes
Filmed over 10 days. in January 2015 when Pierre Perrier was on break from filming The Returned, the production team took inspiration from the an earlier 1964 French TV movie adaptation Petite Planéte de Vacances written by Philipe Bordier and directed by Marie-Joséphe Dubergey.
Status
Sales Agency: Aspect Ratio Films LLC
A family drama with elements of a ghost story The Mohawk Trail deployed several experiments in it’s production. From having the actors write their own dialogue, and recording their own sound, to the planned use of available light.
Currently in post-production.
Starring Alida Delaney and Catherine Eaton // story by Alvin Case // screenplay by Alvin Case, Alida Delaney, and Catherine Eaton //produced by Alvin Case and Sally Northrup // Cinematography by Alvin Case, Samantha Tetro, and Jayme Aronson //Edited by Josh V. and Alvin Case.
Produced in association with Fujifilm USA and The Arthouse Hotel NYC
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS: Maine International Film Festival 2019 // Prairie Lights Film Festival 2019 // Hell’s Kitchen NYC Film Festival 2020
Taking advantage of The Great American Solar Eclipse of 2017, producers/actors Debra Cooke and Elissa Piszel brought in Alvin Case to direct a film built around two sisters reconciling during the moment of Totality. The screenplay was written by Edward Case and filmed in Belgrade, Maine and Scottsbluff, Nebraska. Featuring a soundtrack composed and recorded by Lady Lamb.
Details: 81 min/USA/Color/Sound
Cast: Debra Cooke, Elissa Piszel, and Jules Hartley
Produced by Debra Cooke, Elissa Piszel, and Thomas Kesolits//screenplay by Edward Case//Photographed & Directed by Alvin Case// Soundtrack by Lady Lamb
This taut near future set mystery was captured in rural Vermont on a commission from IndiePix Films. With spirited performances from Willa Dana, Cash Cromby, and Sarah Pitzeltizc.
A psychological horror dream-film centered on a ballet dancer trying to recover her senses after a near fatal accident.
Currently in post-production.
Starring Heather Eliot // story by Alvin Case, Heather Eliot, and Jannine Fonte // screenplay by Alvin Case // produced by Alvin Case, Jannine Fonte, and Heather Eliot// executive producer Frank Burns // executive producer Brian MacDonald// cinematography by Alvin Case, Jayme Aronson //Edited by Alvin Case and Heather Eliot.
