(Gullfoss Waterfall- Iceland ©2012)

(Near Amstel Canal- Amsterdam ©2012)

Time to update my CV and my reel before jetting off to France to shoot a film in a week and a half (!!!!-eep)






many more updates to follow.

(Crystal MacTaggart, Matthew Kern and Max Schuette)

 
 Oh Mock. What Can I say about the journey this film took. It began as an off handed weekend fun project in 2008 that ended up taking 5 weeks to film (that's longer than some features!). It was complicated by all sorts of outside drama and shelved for years as I lost any interest in sharing it with the world...until this year.
  Mock is meant as a knowing spoof of late night cable access grade D-horror schlock,an homage to 1980's VHS. Truly a crap film best viewed late at night with beer, a cheese burger and a couple of friends. " I wanted to make something that was cheesy, terrible really crap. A late night monster movie, the kind I loved as a child, and still do really. I wanted it to be fun and a little sophisticated about how it was finessed. It walks a fine line between spoof and unintentional awfulness, hopefully people find it fun.


Watch at your own risk after the jump.

To celebrate defunkt theatre's upcoming production of "Fire Island" by playwright Chuck Mee, I was commissioned to create a video series that explores the themes of love and loss found in the play.
Here's the first installment with the amazing and wonderful author Nick Mattos. check it out 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.

A brief trip through the archives and some of my favorite shots.

JEREMY #003 ©2011

Jeremy-Basement series ©2011

Jeremy Camera test ©2011

   It feels like all SPARK, all the time lately , but that's not true at all. Mattachine Social are hard at work writing and recording  their debut album and  Time-Out Films has a few other films in the works including the upcoming experimental film ZOOGRAPHIES, Mock (a re-envisioning of the rarely seen short film Inheritance) and some other super secret projects.


BUT!!!!  Since Spark is our debut feature production  here's another teaser to get you by until we are ready to unspool this beast upon the world.

    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.

                                                             "Nishant -in the wild"       ©2010  

I'm happy to share the first batch of a shoot a did with aspiring model Nishant.  I've know  Nishant casually for a few years now and finally got around to shooting some photos of the lovely fellow. 

more from a  more studio setting after the jump

See more of this sexy Mister (model Dave) after the jump.

                                     "When We Turn #01  - Nick"




When We Turn is a new on going series of photography's depicting men and women with their backs to the camera - simple stark photos that capture the side seen by other as we depart. a meditation on the transitional nature of being, of loss, death, love and the progress of life, expect more installments of When We Turn soon.

                                                "Bunny and Bear #02"    ©2010 Time-Out Films

"Art Porn Auteur"
It's an interesting moniker and I certainly appreciate the exposure, so only time will tell if the tag line sticks, but i do enjoy fucking with my audience's heads. And I do love mixing the Existential Dread and hard ons.



"Helping to keep the crowd turned on, if unsettled, will be a loop of erotic video art and photography by Portland auteur Andrew Klaus. Described by Byron Beck as “combining the reverence of the Pieta with the irreverence of Piss Christ,” Klaus’ work is often termed “art porn,” the union of existential dread and boners. However, while the films range from “quite graphic” to “overwhelmingly graphic,” they are less about fucking than about fucking with the viewer’s head. “For me, showing sexuality, even explicit sexuality, doesn’t necessitate it being pornography,” Klaus explains. “The line between porn and art is a tough one to draw. [New Queer Cinema filmmaker] Todd Verow said, ‘Porn is where the viewer masturbates, art is where the artist masturbates.’” And not to give away some major narrative points, but by Verow’s definition, several of these films are decidedly art."