BLOOD BUNNY SESSIONS: MITTEN
Inspired by Glenn O’Brien’s late-’70s/early-’80s NYC cable access show, TV PARTY, Audrey Culver and Hailey Wojcik, Co-Founders of Brooklyn-based art collective, Blood Bunny, set out to create a fun, low-budget, performance-and-interview piece, which retains a decidedly DIY aesthetic while spotlighting a band on the rise.
In this premiere episode, Hailey Wojcik interviews Brooklyn indie electro-pop band, Mitten, who also perform a few songs from their debut EP, “See You Bye,” live at Seaside Lounge Recording Studios.
Directed by Audrey Culver and Hailey Wojcik
Produced by Audrey Culver and Hailey Wojcik
Edited by Audrey Culver
Engineered and Mixed by Danielle DePalma
Mitten is Joanna Katcher and Maia Macdonald
Live Percussion by Ryan Fitch
Special thanks to Seaside Lounge Recording Studios, Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn’s Mitten played Cameo last night.
Stay tuned for Mitten’s upcoming Blood Bunny Session, including live, in-studio performances recorded at Seaside Lounge Recording Studios and an extended interview of Mitten’s Maia Macdonald and Joanna Katcher by musician and Blood Bunny co-founder, Hailey Wojcik.
Get ready for the next Blood Bunny Party!!!…
“Blood Bunny” by Charlie Kemmerer
During Ghost Ghost’s set at Blood Bunny Party #2 at Piano’s NYC, artist Charlie Kemmerer painted this amazing work.
Little Bunny Foo Foo
hoppin’ through the forest,
scoopin’ up the field mice
and boppin’ em on the head.
What a great quote: “What you see on the set does not matter. All that matters is what you see on the screen.”
This is our new motto.
Behind the scenes of The Blackguard (1925, dir. Graham Cutts) Art direction by Alfred Hitchcock
When Hitchcock arrived on the set of The Blackguard, the great German director F.W. Murnau was filming The Last Laugh nearby on the UFA lot.
Hitchcock either engaged Murnau in conversation, or overheard him tell others: “What you see on the set does not matter. All that matters is what you see on the screen.”
Hitchcock never missed an opportunity to quote this remark, which became a cornerstone of his own approach: The reality didn’t matter if the illusion was effective. He then emulated Murnau by hiring a slew of dwarves to stand far from the camera in The Blackguard, creating an artificial perspective for a crowd scene.
-excerpted from Patrick McGilligan’s Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light
This is the official video for WOJCIK’s cover of LCD Soundsystem’s “I Can Change.”
Song download: wojcik.bandcamp.com
Directed by Audrey Culver
Edited by Audrey Culver
Assistant Director: Hailey Wojcik
Makeup: Hailey Wojcik
Assistant Makeup: A. Carlos Cadeña
Featuring (in alphabetical order):
Ally Barlow
Kim Braun
Rachel Browne
Robin Browne
A. Carlos Cadeña
Jax De León
Jamie Dove
Seth Faulk
Andrew Futral
K.L. Ginger
Matt Gross
Ali Harris
Christine Hoberg
Geoff Lewit
Anna Morsett
Mike Multari
David Sosnow
Alex Thake
Stephanie Thake
Mike Tuccillo
Hailey Wojcik
Rachel Zamstein
“I Can Change”
Written by James Murphy
(Kobalt Music Pub America OBO Guy with Head and Arms Music, ASCAP)
