Dan Deacon - True Thrush (Directed by Ben O'Brien and Dan Deacon)
Directed by Ben O'Brien and Dan Deacon Produced by Dan Deacon and Ben O'Brien
The video co-directed by Ben O'Brien and Dan Deacon is based on a drawing game popular in the Baltimore art collective Wham City, which is in turn based on the game "telephone."
For the video, Dan and Ben filmed a simple 13-second scene. That scene was then shown to the next team. After seeing the video that team had 1 hour to recreate it -- characters, props, set, costumes, and actions -- as close to exactly as possible from only their memory.
The cast is made up of members of Wham City, Dan Deacon Ensemble, Ed Schrader's Music Beat, Future Islands, Red Room Collective, Copycat Theater, Effervescent Dance Collective, Showbeast, Annex Theater, Nuclear Power Pants, FlucT, BXDC, Bloody Panda, Foot Talk, Important Comics, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and various icons of the legendary Baltimore Arts Community.
TEAM 1: Dan Deacon and Ben O'Brien TEAM 2: Mason Ross and Emma Alves TEAM 3: Stefani Levin and Rachel London TEAM 4: Ed Schrader and Devlin Rice TEAM 5: Doreen Bolger and Gary Kachadourian TEAM 6: Jimmy Joe Roche and Robby Rackleff TEAM 7: Jordan Kasey and Martin Kasey TEAM 8: Greg St. Pierre and Lily Susskind TEAM 9: Sam Herring and Kim Tabara TEAM 10:Stew Mostofsky and Seth Mostofksy TEAM 11: R.M. O'Brien and Chester Gwazda TEAM 12: Pilar Diaz and Hosey Corona TEAM 13: Evan Moritz and Kaitlin Murphy TEAM 14: William Cashion and Elena Johnston TEAM 15: Person Ablach and Sam Shea TEAM 16: Katie Truhn and Jesse Unterhalter TEAM 17: Gerry Mak and Sophia Mak TEAM 18: Monica Mirabile and Sigrid Lauren TEAM 19: Dina Kelberman and Keith Lea
love this video, couldn't stop laughing by the end.
pretty damn awesome idea !! shame the initial scene and general look didnt have a bit more love/money put into it.