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"WIN A DATE WITH NORMA MASTER BATES!" (ILLIAD & ODD)

"'First First!' I've developed distaste for the ubiquitous 'Indie' hook. I've seen many videos/short films among WINNERS only to ascertain with some bitterness that Indie often translates into 'THE Industry's Industrial Indie.' Setting aside the euphemism, my videos, all of them, were accomplished well under $500, moreover solitary projects, hence omitting the conventional scrolling of many formalized Credits with impressive 'Crane-boom,' slick look/sound finish by teams. As for that, I'm clearly impressed and aware that my 300 square foot apartment Home Movies deserve a separate Indie designation altogether ... how's about, 'indie' (?). That said, unlike some of my aggressive videos belie that I'm exceedingly polite, fun and preferring to listen to others first before chiming in. "All good things come to those who wait." What the Hell's that, wait on tables? "Wait at the back of somebody else's 'Emerging Artist' line? At now 66-years-old, N0o0o0o ... Madams/Ma'ams and then Sirs! "All bad things come to those who wait to wait on 'The Other's' other directives!"

Enough Rock Salt, piss and Balsamic Vinaigrette. Okay, now MY Official Second First ... "

"First, allow me to explain a flaw that runs throughout this forty minute video. One software used is Wondershare Unicorder, which features many options - that program among many from this company. To trim, splice pieces of videos and sequence new outcomes requires timed precision for editing using my F-ing curs(e-)or. I mistakenly slid the cursor while the video piece was playing to save time. The first result was disjointed image/sound. There were several in the upDATEed video and I forgot to duplicate before editing the new from the old and nearly fainted upon witnessing the result. I made too many critical changes and did not want to reshoot from the beginning because of Festival Deadlines (I've since cooled it on my 'last chance worriessss') so parlayed the initial mistakes with text/images to come up something passable or explanatory. From that premise, I deliberately botched 'mistakes' to change both plot and overall story. Norma initially reads Norman's and Brian Spellman's mind(S!), as well as other appropriated characters and is in charge of every character/caricature in the video. The story arcs thus become exchange of prescience(s) choreographed throughout this short. Some even produced inadvertently wonderful outcomes in this multidimensional multiple personalities saga. Truthfully, though I take all philosophical cues to interpret/release information through random mutation parsing into natural selections (Darwinian!) of thinking/behaving as does the physical world rather than free will/choice of supernatural perspective(s), when I look at the results of this video I laugh upon realizing that only about 30% of implications/intensions were understood before mixing, and to apply and laugh at myself it would seem like I was/AM processed! That's when I decided to go full flow with this as a theme as both over and undercurrent facets of this parody video [[[1996' Most Authentic Genre!]]] artwork! yEw bet it's fun!!! The downside of cursor MASTERry becomes 'tennis elbow' so bad that after many nights I soak mine in Epsom Salts, dipping into a pan of water. "Ahhhh ...!"

FilmFreeway asked us for a 'brief' synopsis'("cist!!!")? Hmm ... More indie!

~ Brian" ... WANDA M&Ms https://filmfreeway.com/projects/2892666

  • Brian William Spellman
    Director
  • Brian William Spellman
    Writer
  • Brian William Spellman
    Producer
  • Brian William Spellman
    Key Cast
    I was among ten Phyllis Gebauer Writer's Scholarship Award Winner's, opting for Screenwriting (see Wanda M&M's, https://filmfreeway.com/projects/2892666, also on https://filmfreeway.com/BrianSpellman301. Please help yourselves, (Password Protected ... The Script is 107 pages, also my first, thus discounts Welcome!
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Documentary, Experimental, Feature, Music Video, Short, Student, Television, Web / New Media, Other
  • Runtime:
    39 minutes 41 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 11, 2026
  • Production Budget:
    500 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Canon Vixia HF R21 Camcorder
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16/9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • The Silicon Beach Film Festival
    The TLC Chinese Theater, Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
    United States
    July 31, 2025
    Live Screening
    BEST SHORT FILM (Under 40 minutes ... vastly overworked today)
Distribution Information
  • Nun
    Distributor
    Country: United States
    Rights: All Rights, Internet, Video / Disc
Director Biography - Brian William Spellman

"I was a 2017 Recipient of The Phyllis Gebauer Scholarship at The UCLA Extension where I wrote the screenplay JUST LIKE YOU under the tutelages of Chry Balis Screenwriter of ASYLUM 2003?7? starring Ean Mc. Kellum and Miramax Screenwriter Don Hewitt. I also refined JUST LIKE YOU at Pierce College under the great advice of Ken Rotcop (see the terrific film THE MEDGAR EVERS STORY on regular network television once a year - Ken wrote the screenplay RIP, a. and I'll miss him. UCLA Extension Teacher AKA (mine Coachella) Lisa Medway (Maiden name Sussman - now retired somewhere in Portland, Oregon). I have also won numerous Best Movie Poster Awards on FilmFreeway for JUST LIKE YOU, NEGATIVE SPACED OUT (plus a much better Screenplay of that currently under revision but not bad here now on FilmFreeway, poster for BLOOD OF CHRIST (a revision underway to it's short 10 page screenplay NOW on FilmFreeway. Because FilmFreeway trailers cannot exceed 150MB, I could not load this pithy Serial Killer hijinks, instead I type the link to The McAn Man, a fictional account of a Los Angeles elder Serial Killer with a shoe - and rayon lace fetish. Here's the 20 page completed short story, THE McAN MAN https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/Brian_Spellman. These two videos are doppelgangers to the same theme, one silly and the other, rancid and dead serious. Just yesterday, Friday, June 28th I had forgotten that I even made it but in THE McAN MAN, I noticed my missing front tooth, hence datelining the video before September, 2018, when I went to Seaside Terrace in Fountain Valley, (Orange County) an Assisted Living Center where I participated as a subject in a pharmaceutical test-marketing Study, also linked to both versions of my first of only two screenplays that I have written, JUST LIKE YOU and WANDA M&Ms: Here's the link to my video, THE McAN Man (Thom McAn shoes: https://filmfreeway.com/projects/3698383 ... Voila!!!)."

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Director Statement

My Screenplay WANDA M&Ms https://filmfreeway.com/projects/2892666 though by some well received, also received criticism towards my protagonist for not being sufficiently complex, and lacking better arcs within the plot structure. Each from a different Reader were comparisons to the same two celebrity films: ONE FLEW OVER THE COOKOOS'S NEST and GIRL INTERRUPTED, confirming my script was given cursory attention (both of those films heavily funded and unisex) and although entertaining, both contained caricatures. I understand that film experts understood LA and cinema from Formal slants but not resumes from Ward patients themselves: Hence, "WIN A DATE WITH NORMA MASTER BATES!" (ILLIAD & ODD).

First, allow me to explain a flaw that runs throughout this forty minute video. One software used is Wondershare Unicorder, which features many options - that program among many from this company. To trim, splice pieces of videos and sequence new outcomes requires timed precision for editing using my F-ing curs(e-)or. I mistakenly slid the cursor while the video piece was playing to save time. The first result was disjointed image/sound. There were several in the upDATEed video and I forgot to duplicate before editing the new from the old and nearly fainted upon witnessing the result. I made too many critical changes and did not want to reshoot from the beginning because of Festival Deadlines (I've since cooled it on my 'last chance worriessss') so parlayed the initial mistakes with text/images to come up something passable or explanatory. From that premise, I deliberately botched 'mistakes' to change both plot and overall story. Norma initially reads Norman's and Brian Spellman's mind(S!), as well as other appropriated characters and is in charge of every character/caricature in the video. The story arcs thus become exchange of prescience(s) choreographed throughout this short. Some even produced inadvertently wonderful outcomes in this multidimensional multiple personalities saga. Truthfully, though I take all philosophical cues to interpret/release information through random mutation parsing into natural selections (Darwinian!) of thinking/behaving as does the physical world rather than free will/choice of supernatural perspective(s), when I look at the results of this video I laugh upon realizing that only about 30% of implications/intensions were understood before mixing, and to apply and laugh at myself it would seem like I was/AM processed! That's when I decided to go full flow with this as a theme as both over and undercurrent facets of this parody video artwork! yEw bet it's fun!!! The downside of cursor MASTERry becomes 'tennis elbow' so bad that after many nights I soak mine in Epsom Salts, dipping into a pan of water. "Ahhhh ...!"

I mix a casserole of genres, witticisms, codes, educational materials and education conveyed through often lewd innuendos more graphically as metaphors in this absurd filmy film (video) where my transitions and associationopathing (YuP, read please) has never been more clearly conveyed for belly laughing than in this FilmFreeway speed/time short film/video to arrive under 40 minutes in my COMEDY BOMB (meant in the best, not worst way!). Please take time to treat yourselves to this one persons show!

~ Br(i)an [Never trust Br(WHY?)an's ... their lying!"

(((Here again is the link to my video: THE McAN Man ... First, the completed 20 page first short story THE McAN MAN 2024 https://www.lulu.com/account/projects/m2w2m9j and a decent, but not nearly as intense video of me reading around 2013 video, THE McAN MAN (still, not bad! https://filmfreeway.com/projects/3698383 ... double Voila!"

Part Research, part parody/lampoon/satire, through self-effacing, NOT self-flagellations of Serial Killing Hollywood lore and personal levity (NOT Levitation(S!) ~ see Lazarus?) of connected videos all done in my 300 square-foot apartment at 4419 Belle Terrace D4, Bakersfield, CA 93309-3967. Brian Spellman https:www.youtube.com/@Brian_Spellman, 42 Subscribers and holding. Please do what nobody ever does, give a thUmbs uP for proctologists everywhere! and have more than a snuff ... NIX ... sniff at my best Playlist: AICAD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BbmK58t0dk&list=PLuqyxdtskwDnLyiU6_GdoJUJNqX6Fj5y5&pp=gAQB and if compelled, perhaps BUY a book at the best kept secret in 'Da WHOLE Cookie Land, for since 2006, I have shelled out and foolishly give about "'20 G's in a money belt!/" William S. Burroughs meaning about {$20,000} of my own currency to give away my books, thinking like a blind, not CONTRIVED ALTRUIST [speaking of "Twitch And SHOUT!" John Lennon], figuring that message was more important than MULLAH, 'The Fabulous Mullah, former female wrastler - (sp! deliberate ... may she rest in Bio Mass of Pieces - We're in the AGE or Aeon of Pieces, on December 24, 2050 we enter The Age of Aquarius ... I'll be 90 and because The First LAW of Thermodynamics MATTER CAN NOT BE CREATED OR DESTROYED may hold true until either we're all dead photons of infinite regress(ion) analyses via General Relativity or BIG CRUNCH recoils back to same or variations of OUR Universe ... or String uP 10 0r 11 or INFINITE HA hA Haaa?!?!?!!!!!! > Physical Dimensions (See AICAD Marylin McCOO and The Fifth (No Whiskey please Clean & Sober since October 3, 1982 and MOONSHINE Still LUCKY? "No No, thank you please: No STRIP DIA(TEASEING) ME!" The irreverence is light, humorous, and reasons across, not uP/Downnn to, not Hut 2-Step Verifications or DOT DOT Goose-Step Proofs, Good/Evil(osity)(iscious), etcetera and so forth HIERARCHIES like Egyptian Pyramids of Coniform Hieroglyphics - (FYI, the spoken word had approximately a 1 1/2 million year head start on the written ones) but as for pyramids, The Ancient Chinese solved their agriculture problem of planting seeds on a mountain by cutting shelves into their Pyramids Problems for solutions, as oddly upon looking at pictures of Ancient Aztec Pyramids, well, though "OBJECTION! Cause for SPECULATION!" "SUSTAINED!" apparently homage for similar, not LUCK but fortunes earned for ingenuity and effort SS ... whoopsidaisy S, and mooooooooore of S 'fer shure' MOON UNIT ZAPPA VALLEY GIRL ENGLISH!. The Egyptians were responsible for converting US from Wandering Nomads (or Wandering Jews, too!) to civilizations able to stay PUT (perhaps some WOMAN watched seeds falling from trees, rain, then MORE trees, then ROLLS ROYCES AND trUmp TOWERS, etcetera! QUE SERA SERA Sing us off Doris Day ............!" ~ Thank you, please enjoy my video and forgive my didactics ... Pontiff Pilates EWW me's a lapsed Lutheran ... Mum once an artist and Sunday School Teacher at The Immanuel Lutheran Church in Attleboro, Massachusetts ... No INDULGENCES for sale there!" Br(i)an never trust the Y's, they're MUTANTS, or at least 1 is."