Perpetual Celebration
Two strangers meet late at night in Echo Park and find unexpected connection.
Selections from: The Rehearsal Room
“earthquake” (part 1) -The Rehearser gets the lay of the land of The Rehearsal Room. As they prepare to sign the lease, they are disrupted by neighboring Rehearsers.
“paper bag” - The Rehearser tries to learn how to play “Paper Bag” by Fiona Apple on the piano, and in the process transcends the gap between their capacity and desired result by way of fantasy.
“weeping willow rag” (part 1) - the Rehearser approaches the Rehearsal Room, when they hear someone else inside playing a ragtime tune, and they become overwhelmed with emotion.
“ev’ry night” (part 1) - the Rehearser struggles to play a piece of music on the piano and is visited by a former teacher who helps them to imbues the piece with meaning.
“ev’ry night” (part 2) - riddled with anxiety about the piece of music they have been working on, the Rehearser finds a way to get out of piano practice with their teacher.
“weeping willow rag” (part 2) - the Rehearser finds another Rehearser in the Rehearsal Room, playing a familiar ragtime tune.
Fast Car
Inspired by a true story told by Mark Duplass about his first experience hearing the song "Fast Car" by Tracy Chapman, as a pre-teen. (https://www.kcrw.com/music/shows/guest-dj-project/mark-duplass [2:30-4:00])
“[When this song comes out], I think I’m about 11 years old. I’m knee-deep in my skater punk phase. I’ve got one side of my head shaved; the bangs go all the way across my face so that I can chew on them during class. And I’m a metal head. And me and my friends are sleeping over one of my friend’s houses, and we’re watching Saturday Night Live, we’re sneaking his dad’s vodka. And the musical guest is this woman, who comes on the stage with a guitar and no shoes on and she’s probably nineteen years old…and we’re Metallica fans. So…all of us start to make fun of her-this stupid, earnest song that she’s singing about fast car-“what is this?”-and I engage just as much as anybody else. And when the song’s over, I excuse myself to go to the bathroom, and I cry for about ten minutes. And I had such-everyone has these in puberty-I had this feeling of… I’m not like these people, and I’m not like how I’m dressed and what I’m doing, and all the cynicism and the sarcasm is something else, completely. And at that point I was a drummer-I played drums in a metal band, and I kind of switched over to guitar. And that kind of brought me more into my singer-songwriter phase.”- Mark Duplass
This a retelling of that story through the boys' perspectives, presented as a found-footage camcorder narrative of four friends hanging out on a Saturday in November, 1988.
About
KM received their B.A. from UCLA’s Theater Film & Television, specializing in both acting and directing. They studied acting and performance with Shelley Mitchell, Marilyn Fox, Alec Berg, Sharon Chatten, Joan Scheckel and the LA Clown School. They are committed to revealing interiority through behavior, enactments, and relationships. Recurring themes probe unconscious betrayals, queer constellations, and group relations in an existential effort to capture meaning within limits and to make strange what is taken for granted.