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Official Selection; London Lift-off Film Festival
On the sidewalks of New York, a clown class practices the pie-in-the-face, an iconic store, now shuttered, pays tribute to the American Songbook and a drag queen is glimpsed through a window. All linked by the Bryant Park Carousel and set to songs from various Greenwich Village cabarets and performance spaces.

  • Seth Grimgart
    Director
  • Seth Grimgart
    Director
  • Lory Lazarus
    Writer
  • Seth Grimgart
    Producer
  • David Leopold, Rita Ashdale, Barbara Heller, Misty Meaner
    Key Cast
  • David Leopold
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Music Video, Short
  • Genres:
    comedy, musical
  • Runtime:
    9 minutes 54 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 20, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    1,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Seth Grimgart, Seth Grimgart


Directed "The Last Letter" official selection of the International Horror Film Festival, the Dramatic Shorts Film Festival, Cult Films International Film Festival (finalist), the Cult Movie Awards Film Festival (finalist) , the Virgin Spring Ciefest (finalist) the The Knight of the Reel Film Festival (finalist), Tagore International Film Festival. and Druk International Film Festival. Directed "The Greta Grimgart Memorial Burlesque" official selection:Toronto Lift Off Film Festival and Mountainview International Film Festival. Directed "Sequence/Orpheus" official selection The Experimental Film and Music Video Festival (Toronto). Colortape International Film Festival, Knight of the Reel Film Festival and Druk International Film festival, Directed "Three Minor Prophets" official selection: Odyssey Fest (Hardfaith Prods.) and Royal Society of Television and Motion Picture Awards directed "Grimgart Burlesque: webisodes" official selection Mountainview International Film Festival, Black Swan International Film Festivaland World Film Circus (Singapore), L.A. Lift-Off Film Festival and Sydney Australian Film Festival
Born in town of "Two Egg" on the Florida panhandle; educated sporadically at Tulane and FSU before heading north during the great radical migration. In New York, worked as artist (storyboards for ad agencies), actor (Lincoln Center Theatre: The American living Room Series, Manhattan Theatre Club, La Mama etc., NJ Shakespeare Festival, Judson Poets, PBS TV, WBAI radio, summer stock etc.) Original works at the Public Theatre (No Shame) the Nuyoricans Poets Cafe and under the auspices of Composers Collaborative, Inc and The Genesius Guild. Wrote for DiscDish magazine. Long running Village variety series "Ave. A Conspiracy" which the Voice called "...a lower east side vaudevillian extravaganza..." and termed Grimgart "the prince of perversion himself..."

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On the sidewalks of New York, a clown class practices the pie-in-the-face, an iconic store, now shuttered, pays tribute to the American Songbook and a drag queen is glimpsed through a window. All linked by the Bryant Park Carousel and set to songs from various Greenwich Village cabarets and performance spaces.