Private Project

Personally I Find It Rude to Be Boring

An underground LA rave descends into chaos

  • Derek Spencer
    Director
  • Nic Murphy
    Producer
    Spice Island (2019)
  • Scott Monahan
    Producer
    Anchorage (2023)
  • Rachel Rivera
    Key Cast
  • Acacia Fisher
    Key Cast
    The Faint Goodbye (2023)
  • Scott Monahan
    Key Cast
    Anchorage (2023)
  • Dakota Loesch
    Key Cast
    Anchorage (2023), Love Shot (2018)
  • Natalie Llerena
    Key Cast
    Hedgehog (2017)
  • Mike Merchant
    Key Cast
  • Loren Hayes
    Key Cast
    Washerwoman (2023)
  • Marissa Pattullo
    Key Cast
    The Goatman (2023)
  • Jazzy Middleton
    Key Cast
  • Soren Royer-McHugh
    Key Cast
  • Edson Black
    Additional Cast
    Play It Cool (2021), Scarlet Sparrow (2023)
  • Trace Clark
    Additional Cast
  • Seth "Hobbes" Origitano
    Additional Cast
  • Princeston Bolton
    Additional Cast
  • Mason Conrad
    Additional Cast
    We Got A Dog (2022)
  • Jinny Ryann
    Additional Cast
    Melrose (2018)
  • Mad Linez
    Additional Cast
  • Jessie Lee Thorne
    Additional Cast
  • Molly Balloons
    Additional Cast
  • Kate Dougherty
    Additional Cast
  • Caribay Franke
    Additional Cast
  • Steven Jasso
    Additional Cast
  • Katie Peabody
    Additional Cast
    Lear's Shadow (2018), Watermark (2019)
  • Arianne Villareal
    Additional Cast
    Charmers (2021)
  • Co-el Rodriguez
    Additional Cast
  • Mara Magistad
    Additional Cast
  • Majella Bess Loughran
    Additional Cast
  • David Clifford Turner
    Additional Cast
  • Carla Green
    Additional Cast
  • Kelsey Vlamis
    Additional Cast
  • Trey Betts
    Director of Photography
    What Lies Below (2020), Cassidy Red (2017),
  • Majella Bess Loughran
    Associate Producer
  • Meredith Trienen
    Associate Director
    Anchorage (2023)
  • Estlin Usher
    Composer
  • John Tieng
    Stunt Coordinator
    The Mean One (2022), Prey of Wrath
  • John B. Barrett
    Steadicam Operator
    Argylle (2024), The Family Plan (2023), The Recruit (2022)
  • Al Webster
    Gaffer
  • Yuanhua (Gwendolyn) Wang
    Location Sound Mixer
    Christmas for Sale (2021)
  • Chanikarn Thitipichetkul
    Supervising Sound Editor
    Dangerous Methods (2022), Anchorage (2023)
  • Yuxin Lu
    Dialogue Editor
  • Shaun Yee
    Re-Recording Mixer
    Anchorage (2023), The Beta Test (2021), Rounding (2022)
  • Stephen Marsiano
    ADR Recordist
    New Friend (2024)
  • Ingrid Weeks
    Makeup Artist
  • Jens Yence Wagner
    Visual Effects
  • Briana Brackett
    Colorist
    No Way Out (2022), Kama'aina (2020)
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    8 minutes 23 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 29, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    4,466 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States, United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Chicago Underground Film Festival
    Chicago, IL
    United States
    September 13, 2024
    World Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Onion City Experimental Film Festival
    Chicago
    United States
    April 5, 2025
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Derek Spencer

Derek Spencer is a theater director, installation artist, and filmmaker based in Chicago & LA. He was a prominent voice and community leader in the 2010’s LA immersive movement. For 7 years Derek served as the artistic director of Ceaseless Fun, a critically-acclaimed LA-based immersive theater ensemble creating provocative, underground performances. Recently, Derek returned to his hometown to pursue an MFA degree in studio art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He creates work with ensemble casts, using improvisational and collaborative techniques to construct scenes of chaotic spectacle and uncanny intimacy. He likes being the last person to leave a party.

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Director Statement

No one is a good person at 3 am. We stretch ourselves too far, we get too high, we abandon useful boundaries and norms as our cravings grow more desperate. The after-hours party is a liminal space between pleasure and danger, interesting and obnoxious, cool and cringe.
We know this, but we yearn for the night out anyway. Because you never know what might happen. Because staying in is a concession to entropy and death. Because we’d all secretly rather be bad than boring.

PERSONALLY I FIND IT RUDE TO BE BORING is about cycles of pleasure-seeking. It’s about how we justify destructive behavior in search of ephemeral gratification. It’s about the solitude of pleasure—characters who can only look at themselves even as they are surrounded by friends. For me, it’s also about nostalgia. Current pleasure never feels as good as we remember past pleasure feeling. In a world still collectively processing the social damage done by a global pandemic, we ask: is it possible to feel as good as we remember feeling? And if we can, is it worth it?

PHOTOSENSITIVITY WARNING - the first 10 seconds of the film contain intense flashing lights.