I Was Tortured And Murdered For The Sake Of Art!

Sleeping in Blood City (2011) is a short film written and directed by one of Orbles very own; Shaun Katz, the cinephile behind Screen Adventure

. He recently completed shooting and is now in the post-production stages. He cast me in the blink-and-youll-miss-it role of a victim; one of his lead characters hit jobs. Ghost, as the killer is called (yes, funny that), is le samoura, or thereabouts; a cool-headed, by-the-books, lone assassin who may have met his match.

Im murdered in the second scene; part of a montage establishing Ghosts occupation, method and style. A quick dolly in to my bloodied and bruised face, as I slobber in a semi-conscious state, and the camera swerves up to reveal a powerful automatic handgun in the hand of Ghost, pointed very close and straight at the side of my head. He pulls the trigger, his face only glimpsed momentarily in the shadowy room. BANG! And thats me wrapped!

Yup, I was on-set (with my wife who was taking a few photographs), helped the First AD, Mountain Fog (who hosts Orbles Screen Trek movie blog), with a bit of gaffering, was then dressed with fake blood, and was filmed and wrapped within two hours. It wasnt the most flattering performance Ive done in my life; lolling about, sweating under the hot lights, the sweet taste of fake blood in my mouth, but I was keen to help out a buddy, especially when I was going to be immortalised in a neo-noir short film.

Who knows how famous Mr. Katz will become?! Hes already taken one of his short films, Black Dog, to Cannes for the Short Film Corner, and were collaborating on our own short film screenplay; a wicked, supernatural horror (obviously).

Shaun aims to have Sleeping in Blood City completed by the end of March. The screenplay is based on a feature-length script called Beat Street to Oblivion, penned by Katz and yet another Orbler, the walking encyclopedia of film himself, John Doe (yes, rather curiously named after another dead body), who hosts JDM Film Reviews. Katz has managed to score (pun intended) the musical talents of Peter Mengede, the original guitarist of cult American alternative metal band Helmet. Mengede returned to his home country down under ten years ago, and is collaborating with musician Mark Bradridge on the films soundtrack. Score indeed!

The intention of making Sleeping in Blood City, I assume, is to impress potential investors and financiers with the short film (which was shot on the Red MX camera, the same one used to shoot The Social Network) so that Katz will have the big bucks to make the feature version.

Good luck Shaun! It was a pleasure being killed for your art.

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by: Shaun Katz

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