The Bride of Frankenstein ©2015

What's a  boy to do with an iPhone, Instagram,  some free time and a series of Funko/ Super7 line of Kenner inspired Reaction figures based on classic film monsters (the Universal Monsters, Hellraiser and Trick r Treat to be exact) . Here's a one-off series just for fun.

"The following film is almost entirely a work of fiction. Almost"  So begins Spark's final unspooling (actually films really unspool these days but still) The story of a self obsessed artist who's attention seeking suicide attempt forces him to refocus on life. Where to start? In the Beginning... In seeking his loved one's forgiveness for his downward spiral he contemplates the very nature of his existential crisis: from the big bang through his own conception, to the afterlife, and back to bathtub in Paris and the cold light of day.  It's an explicit, eccentric, obsessive and elegiac story of the struggle to forgive one's self.  

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Here's a teaser image from the nearly complete large scale video installation piece STAG NIGHT.
Thought I'd introduce the boys in intervals.  So first up is Japanese punk rocker  Yohhei.

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

Reminiscence is a companion short art-porn film piece meant to serve as  a teaser for the feature film
Spark, featuring many of the cast members of Spark and set to an original  score by A is for Accident. It also serves as a nice recap of 2011 and the globe trotting film production that has encompassed our lives here at Time-Out Films.   It's a tad morose, a little dreary, and a whole lot smutty.

               A new artporn piece Privacy, featuring actor and musician Matthew Clarke. 





Watch the retro styled portrait of auto-erotica  after the jump.

    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.

Mister is about the place in between adolescent desire and actuality. It is the place where fear, and desire originate, it represents the lens through which adolescent attraction views the outside world. For me it is an examination of the unrequited desire for the affection of older men as an adolescent. Wanting to be them, be with them and ultimately the fear of what that meant. The film was crafted as a loop of stop-motion/still-photography . Mister features Portland ,OR bar owner Woody Clarke as the model. Woody owns the excellent CRUSH.

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No, not that kind, well- not not that kind.

I'll be screening a selection of my works and giving a talk on homoerotiscm, surrealism, horror, queer identity and art- you know your basic existential dread with hard-ons kinda thing!  It will also be a nice introduction to recent works and the premeire of a few pieces swell, so hey everyone who can make it should come!







Andrew Klaus: THINK/FEEL
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An art piece by award-winning filmmaker Andrew Klaus I Am Not Myself Today explores the separation between the subjective sense of self as an artist and the objectivity expressed through one's work. I Am Not Myself Today is about the blurred lines between fact and fiction, experience and recreation. I Am Not Myself Today features writer Nick Mattos.

Jesus Fucking Christ sets to discuss the pornography of violence in modern culture. By creating a dialogue between the Christian iconography and extremist violence used in the 2004 film "The Passion of The Christ" and the 2008 gay adult film "The Porne Ultimatum" . This work is not about offending anyone's religious beliefs, but rather calling into question the intent and use of violence and hypocrisy by the film makers and distributors who condone censorship of nudity and sexuality but hold in esteem the art of violence, torture and dismemberment. Penetration, is penetration whether with a penis or knife, and blood or semen-both are bodily fluids, spilled copiously in the name of entertainment."

I sooo need to update this but he's a brief teaser for some of my film works.