🤖 ROBOT BABY 🤖 Community-Made Music Video World Premiere

On April 2, M. I. Devine and I put out a call to the Filmstack community and beyond, asking for original and archival footage we could use in the music video for Famous Letter Writer’s new single, Robot Baby.

One Filmstacker contributed (thank you, Victoria Michele Miller). However, we received a bunch of submissions/footage from filmmakers not on Filmstack. Some of these filmmakers are quite accomplished, with movies currently playing in theaters and on the festival circuit. There is even a brief appearance by one of the biggest pop stars in the world… Can you spot her?

There’s an important, revealing lesson here. I’ll leave it to you to decide what that lesson is (though I personally think Donny Broussard nailed it).

Without further ado, here’s the community-made music video for Robot Baby!

A note on process from M. I. Devine:

Famous Letter Writer always creates with Laurie Anderson’s advice in mind:

Is it complicated enough? Is it simple enough? Is it crazy enough? Is it beautiful enough? Is it stupid enough?

You’ll find a robot army attack, Duchamp’s head shaped like a toilet, and a meditation on our wild, weird, and totally unpredictable humanity.

I think we’re good.

📀 Famous Letter Writer’s new EP, Dadamama (thou), is now available for pre-order on Bandcamp. 📀

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Do Not Miss

A staged reading of Couch, the new play by Jessica Garrison. Thursday, June 25 @ 7:30pm (Doors @ 7). Info + tix here.

Will Sterling’s A Cell Phone Movie is coming to Caveat on the LES! Part of the DIY Cinema Sh*t Show Tour. Thursday, June 25 @ 9:30pm (Doors @ 9). Info + tix here.

Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of Hamlet is screening in 70mm at Lincoln Center on July 5 @ 12pm.

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