TERPSICHORE
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Professionals Enlisted
DIRECTOR: LARRY BLUMENTHAL
After receiving his education at San Diego State
University majoring in Telecommunications and Film while minoring in Music,
Larry Blumenthal acquired his extensive 30+ year background in television
production, sitcoms, feature films, documentaries, commercials, infomercials,
short form projects, episodics, pilots, and music videos working as a motion
picture photographer/videographer, writer, editor, and producer. He has worked
with music talent from Michael Jackson, Ratt, Joe Walsh and Dolly Parton, to
Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliot, Smashmouth, Eve and No Respect Crew. The list of
actors and celebrities he has worked with over the last three decades would
simply be too long to display here, but range from Bob Hope, Ray Bolger, Milton
Berle, and Mickey Rooney to Jalleel White, Drew Carey, George Carlin and Frank
Caliendo. His deepest love is cinematography: as a Director of Photography he is
efficient, fast, affable, and familiar with all techniques and formats. Although
as a Director he is largely unknown, he has often been praised for his
sensitivity, warmth, and unique awareness toward the actor's needs and
perspective, while simultaneously maintaining a sense of security and skillful
mastery of all levels of the technical side of filmmaking.
DIRECTOR'S NOTES:
There are two kinds of people: the non-believer and the believer. To an atheist, all who believe any form of faith whatsoever, are a bunch of "woo-woo" wingnuts. Yet both live an apparent world of dualism:
light and dark
good and evil
past and future
Ironically, humanity lives in the borders, in the gray, neutral world of here and now. This borderline world we call Reality. Like the River Styx of Greek mythos, separating the World from the Underworld, Reality is fraught full of both inherent danger and beauty. It is here where hopes form and dwell. The past is fact, the future but dreams, while here we live in our hope. Thus, atheists and believers, realists and wingnuts, must somehow make their peace and coexist within this realm of things hoped for. This very conflict has been the source of sadness, confusion and war throughout all history.
I see this film much as I see the world. I live in reality, but am always open to "the possibility" of things unseen, unknown. I must. For I see the world as a living art form - inexplicably unfolding before our very eyes - the Dance of Life! Yet, from a realistic standpoint, Life can be harsh. For many people believing is what makes them feel better - endowing them with ablility to survive danger, and therefore, more able to see the beauty in this netherworld of Life.
But what if the past was living, able to come to us and influence our future? Is that not the very definition of the sacred and the profane? From this credo comes inspiration for this little art film. It's the common story of a young couple's marriage on the edge of ruin simply because one partner is a realist, and the other wants to feel better. A believer and a non-believer. The realist's repressed past comes to the present to heal the rift between them by revealing that which binds everything. Having the greatest power in all of Existence are Beauty and Love. But most transcendent of all, Love.
A year ago (June 2007) Executive Producer Terry Hancock came to me with a story idea about a young woman able to heal with her dance. Along with the idea were a few guitar pieces, a young friend who was a dancer. a couple of his very beautiful digitally manipulated photographic art pieces as a source for inspiration, and a ridiculous budget. "Will you make this into a film?" My first reaction was to run! When I contemplated what was involved in creating an art film of this type, only the word IMPOSSIBLE came to mind. Yet something about the idea wouldn't let go that easily. Perhaps my philologist bent was sucking me in like a Siren. In any case, TERPSICHORE now lives: if you are atheist, have an open mind and just enjoy the music and dance. If you live in the world of hope and spirit, perhaps something here will speak to you. Universal Blessings.
There are two kinds of people: the non-believer and the believer. To an atheist, all who believe any form of faith whatsoever, are a bunch of "woo-woo" wingnuts. Yet both live an apparent world of dualism:
light and dark
good and evil
past and future
Ironically, humanity lives in the borders, in the gray, neutral world of here and now. This borderline world we call Reality. Like the River Styx of Greek mythos, separating the World from the Underworld, Reality is fraught full of both inherent danger and beauty. It is here where hopes form and dwell. The past is fact, the future but dreams, while here we live in our hope. Thus, atheists and believers, realists and wingnuts, must somehow make their peace and coexist within this realm of things hoped for. This very conflict has been the source of sadness, confusion and war throughout all history.
I see this film much as I see the world. I live in reality, but am always open to "the possibility" of things unseen, unknown. I must. For I see the world as a living art form - inexplicably unfolding before our very eyes - the Dance of Life! Yet, from a realistic standpoint, Life can be harsh. For many people believing is what makes them feel better - endowing them with ablility to survive danger, and therefore, more able to see the beauty in this netherworld of Life.
But what if the past was living, able to come to us and influence our future? Is that not the very definition of the sacred and the profane? From this credo comes inspiration for this little art film. It's the common story of a young couple's marriage on the edge of ruin simply because one partner is a realist, and the other wants to feel better. A believer and a non-believer. The realist's repressed past comes to the present to heal the rift between them by revealing that which binds everything. Having the greatest power in all of Existence are Beauty and Love. But most transcendent of all, Love.
A year ago (June 2007) Executive Producer Terry Hancock came to me with a story idea about a young woman able to heal with her dance. Along with the idea were a few guitar pieces, a young friend who was a dancer. a couple of his very beautiful digitally manipulated photographic art pieces as a source for inspiration, and a ridiculous budget. "Will you make this into a film?" My first reaction was to run! When I contemplated what was involved in creating an art film of this type, only the word IMPOSSIBLE came to mind. Yet something about the idea wouldn't let go that easily. Perhaps my philologist bent was sucking me in like a Siren. In any case, TERPSICHORE now lives: if you are atheist, have an open mind and just enjoy the music and dance. If you live in the world of hope and spirit, perhaps something here will speak to you. Universal Blessings.
ANDREW BLOCH: GUEST STAR - actor, acting coach
Andrew Bloch is a veteran actor. On Broadway, he played Happy Loman in Death of A Salesman, starring Dustin Hoffman. He has a long list of film and television credits, ranging from Mash to Ally McBeal, and Steven Seagal's Hard to Kill.
Andrew - lending expertise to the holistic clinic, as administrator A. Paul Lowe PhD.
JD MURRAY - COSTAR
I've been acting off and on since high school for the stage and tv, with the occasional short film thrown in. I've been a camera assistant in LA for about ten years, working mostly in commercials. I have a son who is five, Pierson, and a daughter who is three, Charlotte. Pierson, Charlotte and my wife of eight years, Jeanne, are my happiness. Since my daughter was born I've also been shooting kids' portraiture on the side, another big source of happiness
I've been acting off and on since high school for the stage and tv, with the occasional short film thrown in. I've been a camera assistant in LA for about ten years, working mostly in commercials. I have a son who is five, Pierson, and a daughter who is three, Charlotte. Pierson, Charlotte and my wife of eight years, Jeanne, are my happiness. Since my daughter was born I've also been shooting kids' portraiture on the side, another big source of happiness
JD
Between takes on a November day in New Mexico.
KIRSTIN ZOTOVICH - COSTAR
Kirstin
Calmly waiting, while no one else was...
Kirstin is an LA based actress and a member of the Screen Actors Guild. Her background is in musical theater and dance.
