Chubby Buddy ("the last castrato") is an experimental narrative based on the story of a man who gives up his career and marriage in order to act upon some peculiar impulses.
Chubby Buddy was originally conceived as a live sound project for the New York Gallery AC Project Room's Sound Series in 2001. Actor Mot Filipowski performed the text with cinematic sound bites and musical ambience created by turntablist DJ Cruzmissile. In 2003, the sound project was re-imagined as a short art film.
Erika Yeomans (Writer/Diretor) was the co-founder and artistic director of the performance company DOORIKA where she produced and directed over seventeen original theater productions that toured venues throughout the United States. Yeomans’s experimental theater pieces were often exercises in historical reinterpretation and played heavily on some of the 20th century’s best known literature. Her The Most of Shave (1993), based on Walter Abish’s short story In So Many Words Pt. 1 and Bathe Me (1996), based on Gertrude Stein’s Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights!, are just a few examples. She created high-profile performance art/multimedia projects including an installation titled Cardboard, Vinyl, Rhinestones: The Denim Fiancé (1999), commissioned by Levi’s for the Downtown Arts Festival and later presented at the 2000 Delaware Biennial. She has also been featured on NPR's This American Life.
In 1995, Yeomans directed her first short video, Bunny Boy, adapted from the stage version of Doorika’s Japanese trilogy, Akogare No Pari. Her next project, In Search of Bas Jan’s Miraculous (1997), was a conceptual documentary about the 70’s LA-based Dutch visual artist Bas Jan Ader and his mysterious disappearance at sea. In 1998, she directed her first 35mm short film Hardhead Flair followed by the award-winning video The Forgery (2000) shot by acclaimed filmmaker Ken Kobland. Since 1999, Yeomans has focused on filmmaking. Her videos (Chubby Buddy, The Forgery, Hardhead Flair and In Search of Bas Jan's Miraculous) have screened at film festivals and art institutions around the world - including Lincoln Center's New York Video Festival, Contemporary Art Center in Normandy, Art in General Gallery, Anthology Film Archives, Silver Lake Film Festival, Amsterdam's World Wide Video Festival at the Stedelijk Museum, Austria's Ars Electronica, Copenhagen's Danish Film Institute, Utrecht's Impakt Video Festival, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Arizona State Art University Museum and Vox Populi Gallery in Philadelphia. Currently, she is in development on several projects, VERTIGA (a film and multimedia project) and the feature film scripts Pose-Down and I Was A White Slave In Harlem.
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