Split Screen is an irreverent, sly magazine format show which takes an inside look at the
tremendous diversity of filmmaking in the United States. Created, written and hosted by
long-time producer/talent scout John Pierson, this half-hour series breaks through all
the highbrow stuff to illustrate why independent moviemaking is so much fun.
Pierson travels all over the country with noted filmmakers, many of whom he helped
discover and wrote about in his recent book
Spike, Mike, Slackers & Dykes: A Guided Tour
Across a Decade of American Independent Cinema, and talented unknowns, some of whom will
comprise the next wave.
On Split Screen you will see:
- Spike Lee admit he believes half of what he says.
- Kevin Smith forget the price of milk at the Quick Stop convenience store where he shot Clerks.
- Roger Ebert suggest that after Sundance, Slamdance, and Slumdance the next festival in Utah should be called Shitdance.
- John Lurie go ice fishing with Willem Dafoe.
- a young filmmaker crash his car to collect the insurance to finance his film while another wannabe repeatedly smashes his lead actor's head through an unyielding cabinet door.
- Bob the Mailman deliver undiscovered film gems like Direction "Bam" Man.
- an inexplicably popular screenwriting teacher explain his "brainstorming computer."
- John Waters confess that he never got over the vomit bag given out at the drive-in where he first saw Herschell Gordon Lewis' Blood Feast.
In short, Split Screen is the place where the independent film elite and offbeat meet.
If you're wondering what we've been up
to during the extended off-season, we turned How's Your News? (see Episode #44) into a feature documentary, and
traveled halfway around the globe in search of the world's most remote movie theater. We found it, the 180 Meridian Cinema, in Fiji. You'll see it on Split Screen's fourth season Labor Day premiere, the first of sixteen all-new episodes.
But we're really having a double premiere this fall. For twelve weeks starting October 2nd, Split Screen will be shifting gears. In conjunction with the publication of the newest editions of Faber & Faber's splendid Projections, we'll be showcasing a series of twelve
extended interviews unified by the theme of filmmaking in New York. |
Split Screen 2000 |
Features |
Episode #66
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Projections - Stacy Cochran
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Episode #65
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Projections - Ted Hope/James Schamus
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Episode #64
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Projections - Buck Henry
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Episode #63
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Projections - Tod Lippy and John Pierson
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Episode #62
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Projections - David O. Russell
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Episode #61
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Projections - Walter Bernstein
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Episode #60
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Projections - Jonas Mekas
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Episode #59
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Projections - Juliet Taylor
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Episode #58
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Projections - Harmony Korine
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Episode #57
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Projections - Christine Vachon
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Episode #56
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Projections - David Picker
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Episode #55
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Projections - Wes Anderson
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Episode #54
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Video on Vinyl: Then and Now
Focus Group From Hell
Multiplex III - The Staff
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Episode #53
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Multiplex II - The Manager
Woodworking with Bill
Bikers R People 2
La Boda
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Episode #52
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"Waking Life" with Buzz
Alloy in Maui
Multiplex 1 - The Projectionist
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Episode #51
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The Fiji Stooges
The Lost City
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Split Screen 1999 |
Features |
Episode #50
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Kevin Smith Uncensored: This Ain't No Junket
Part 2
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Episode #49
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Kevin Smith Uncensored: This Ain't No Junket
Part 1
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Episode #48
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Field of Feuds
The Moth
Ocularis
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Episode #47
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BANNED
See here for more info
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Episode #46
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Manitoba Tonight with Atom Egoyan
Jesus Video Project
Picturing Home
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Episode #45
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Demolition
Movie Madness: The Passion of Jack Angstreich
Fight School
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Episode #44
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Inside the Eye of Scorpio Rising
Hangin' With How's Your News
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Episode #43
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Waiting for Marty
Lunch Break with Michael & John
Casablanca: New & Improved
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Episode #42
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Filmmaker Cop
Down the Drain with Blaine
Ross McElwee 101
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Episode #41
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Christopher Walken Cooks
The Incredibly Strange Director Who Stopped
Directing and Became a Dog-Man Extra
PXL
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Episode #40
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Tinseltown
Palm Springs Follies
The Incorrect Video Vault
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Episode #39
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Red Leader
Keepin' It Real
Tubb in Taos
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Episode #38
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Re-Enact This!
The Fabulous Stains
How to Read a Movie Poster
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Episode #37
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Godzilla
Billy Graham Ministries
Big Shot
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Episode #36
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Umpire
I Beat Andy Kaufman
Springfield, Korea
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Episode #35
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bolexbrothers
The Critic
Seth Sells
"Hamster"
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Episode #34
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Young Turkeys
Hair Today, Film Tomorrow
Ring of Steel
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Episode #33
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Big Miss Moviola
Please Kill Mr. Kinski
A Fangoria Weekend of Horror
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Episode #32
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Reverse Speech
Producing Schlock
From Porn Houses to Art Houses
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Episode #31
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Citizen Jesse
AV Geeks
Ugly George vs. Pretty Maggie
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Split Screen '98 |
Features |
Episode #30
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The Jacob Young Special
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Episode #29
Wear and Tear on the Split Screen RV |
Manitoba Tonight: Guy Maddin
How'd You Do That? Archival FX
Ready, Willing and Able
Jamaica
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Episode #28
Learning |
Kuchar
Kids
Production 3
Indie Dogs
Artmark
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Episode #27
Acting |
The Shoestore
How'd You Do That? Working With a Deaf Actress
Dennis Woodruff: Cast Me!
Seymore Butts: Filmmaker
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Episode #26
Location |
Movie Saves Town
Three Seasons
Homicide is Good
Seven
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Episode #25
Red Bank, NJ |
Crispin Glover: What Is It?
Shiney
Frank Vincent
Trailer Touch-Up
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Episode #24
Flying |
Toy Patient
Making the Waves
Volcano
Indies in Flight
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Episode #23
Critters |
Sweet Sunshine
Rat Women
Man & Dog
Buy Low, Sell High
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Episode #22
Revisiting DC |
Velvet Manifesto
NEA Tapes
Flower Power
Dockers: Changing Pants
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Episode #21
Las Vegas/Boston/Vermont
(Season Three Premiere Episode) |
Rounders in Vegas
Stunts R Us
Crash/Creche
Cattle Drive-In
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Season Two |
Features |
Episode #20 |
Mr MovieFone
Al Milgrom: The Last Crusade
Driver 23
Cosmic Society
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Episode #19
Aspen Colorado |
Selective Service System
Hurricane Teens
Casting Call
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Episode #18
Kansas City |
Return of the Blue Devils
Lost in Spain
The Real Casino
Foxwoods
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Episode #17
More Texas |
Lonesome Blood Trail
Big Joe
The Real Dude
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Episode #16
Austin, Texas |
Orson Welles, Not Taco Bells
Gimme Some Larry
"Sweet Sweetroll's Baadasssss Spin"
Documation
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Episode #15
New Orleans, Dallas, Oklahoma |
Reason to Deceive
Dallas Vidfest
Private Eye
Tin Drum
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Episode #14
Fort Sumter |
It's Elementary
Cotton Fields
Carl Franklin
American Breakdown
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Episode #13
Florida |
Jimi Story
Bootlegger
Project Grizzly
War of the Worlds
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Episode #12
Washington DC |
Marathon
John Wayne's Hairpiece
How'd You Do That?:IFFCON
EZ Rider
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Premiere Episode:(#11) |
The Giant Killer
Pocket Cinema
The Lady in Red
Blair Witch Part II
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Split Screen '97 |
Features |
Episode #10 |
Sunflower City
Hands on a Hard Body
The Blair Witch Project
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Episode #9 |
Cinemoids
Donnie Bosnia
Sisters in Cinema
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Episode #8 |
Mr. Pink and Barton Fink
Inside DuArt
Taranteenties
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Episode #7 |
Swingblade
Gatorlando
Spread Fred
Errol Morris
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Episode #6 |
Fishing With Two Johns
Isle of Lesbos
Cyberhostage
Hamster Factor
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Episode #5 |
Screenwriting: An Exact Science
Nine Months
Screenwriting: Part 2
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Episode #4 |
Bob the Mailman in LA
Cold Spring Workshop
Just Another Dance
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Episode #3 |
Quick Stop
Crumb
Direction Man
Making Northwestern
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Episode #2 |
Rick and Eric's Excellent NY Film Festival Adventure
It's Impossible To Learn To Plow By Reading Books
Duct Town
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Episode #1 |
Spike's First Decade
John and Bob in the Office
Hang Your Dog In The Wind
The Real Fargo
The Gruesome Twosome
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