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No time in recent memory has been as fruitful or busy as October 2013 for me.  On October 1st my band Mattachine Social released "Close" a new ep of trip-hop tinged songs culled from our session recording in Seattle with Jesse Holt at Remixlab. You can nab the digital release here. And check out the single "Nowhere"  below

Devils #04 ©2013

A 70's inspired demonic horror fueled photo shoot yielding quite a bit of sexy/scary fun

Invoking the work of Derek Jarman by way of Kenneth Anger the dreamlike "The Garden of His Delights" is an abstracted meditation on male beauty. The title inspired from the biblical book of Isaiah the film combines in a Mapplethorpe like manner the graceful beauty of flowers blooming in time-lapse photography with the raw sexuality of underground sex clubs. watch after the jump

Devils 01 ©2013

A second teaser from the Mythical Beasts/Domesticated Animals :DEVILS shoot

A preview of some upcoming pieces from a recent shoot for Mythical Creatures/Domesticated Animals series that was begun in September in Amsterdam.  Much much more to come...

Amsterdam (late night snapshot)  ©2012

Taylor- bath (archived-©2007/2012)

Taylor - Paris ©2010

(Gullfoss Falls-Iceland ©2012)

(Unicorn Domestika 001 -Paris ©2012)

(Unicorn Domestika 002 -Paris ©2012)

(Nocturnes in Paris ©2012)

(Gullfoss Waterfall- Iceland ©2012)

(Near Amstel Canal- Amsterdam ©2012)

    I've decided to test out some sequences from the upcoming sexually explicit feature film Spark over on xtube to see how certain scenes play out for an audience.  So of course I have to share them here as well. So here's your first look at my new film Spark.

The Artist Model from Andrew Klaus on Vimeo.


The Artist Model is a surrealist film about the internal monologue and the disconnect of self image for the working artist. The film features renowned visual artist TJ Norris (here rendered near-unrecognizable via digital make-up effects) as artist who has a greed to sit as the subject of a portrait for another unseen artist. The viewer is treated to inner monologue of "the artist's" scatter-shot stream of conscious as he waits for the sitting to end.

The piece was originally created as a video installation for the critically acclaimed Spread Ego at PLACE Gallery in Portland Oregon.

     We're entering the final big chunk of shooting for Spark, with principal photography wrapping by the end of January, which will leave only the delightful effects shots to pick up and engineer. The films opening sequence, a quite bloody suicide attempt has yet to be lensed, saving the best for last- perhaps.
     The script has been largely improvised, and wholly unpleasant. It's been a grueling process mentally and emotionally making a film that many will instantly view as autobiographical and at times even I have had a hard time discerning the facts from the fiction of it all.
      Much has been made of the fact the film is pornographic. I've argued it's sexually explicit but not pornographic since the visceral depictions of real sex in the film are integral plot points meant to provoke and disturb rather than titillate. I argue if it is pornography, then it's the least sexy porno film I can make.   The film paints with the sickly tones of addiction with a pseudo-documentary/verité  flair that belies the planning involved to make  the film.  Shot in three countries and in multiple states on a variety of formats to express the dreamlike (or nightmarish) state of manic depression and sexual depravity the film is the experimental feature that my gallery work has hinted at for years, work that I've been hesitant to fully extrapolate into a narrative film.  But no more.  There are so many people to thank who've supported this project that I won't start that just yet but I love you all.

For those who need a synopsis

Spark follows a self absorbed artist/film maker who turns the cameras on himself through a major depressive period and highly active time of sexual addiction. The film is a raw and unflinching look at self destruction and hopefully, recovery.

An update on SPARK, a new film from Time-Out Films and director Andrew Klaus :

So we are in our second week of the European shooting schedule a few days in Iceland and now Paris, France. We've managed even to shoot scenes inside the Louvre and an opulent dream sequence in the apartments of Napoleon Bonaparte (also at Musee de Louvre) !  Lots of  locations here, trying to capture the feel of Paris through the eyes of someone who can't even find the beauty in it when it's all around him. Someone who is so hurt that the world around him starts to wither in his eyes as his partner struggles to save him from himself. It's been an intense experience writing/directing/AND acting in this film but I'm very proud of it and of everyone involved as well as humbled beyond belief by the amazing outpouring of support to make this film a reality,  it may not be a feel good film, but it is one of very honest feeling.

Here's a more current comprehensive looks at the work of Time-Out Films co-founder, director Andrew Klaus


Andrew Klaus : DEMO REEL Fall 2010 from Andrew Klaus on Vimeo.