Mother's House on VIMEO

Finally Mother's House is free for everyone on VIMEO. After a long and successful festival tour you can watch the short film of Davis Hall with Kathryn Erbe and Tim Guinee. ENJOY!!! Thank you again Ingrid Price for all the exciting background information during the making and your support.

Mother's House from Davis Hall on Vimeo.

This 26 minute film began as a genre-bending approach to a universal story of life and loss. Intrigued by the script, veteran actors Kathryn Erbe and Tim Guinee threw themselves into an intense 7 day shoot in upstate New York. Director Davis Hall and producer Ingrid Price stepped outside their usual roles as actor and costume designer to work as a different kind of team (they are married). Mother's House screened in film festivals around the world, including Woodstock; Tallgrass; Newport Beach; Breckenridge; Lucerne, Switzerland; and Athens, Ohio. For more info, check out mothershousethemovie.com/.

Buy your own Mother's House

Just go to amazon and buy or rent the awesome Short Movie with Kathryn Erbe.

Newport Beach Film Festival

Get the chance to watch two current Kathryn projects at one festivals:

 
Get your tickets now: Newport Beach Film Fest

The Love Guide aka Sunny Side Up

Together with Mother's House at Newport Beach Film Festival, California.

The Love Guide
Derek Purvis, David Pomes 2011
Categories: Feature, Spotlight

Run time: 81 min. | U.S.A. | Language: English

A small town chicken farmer experiencing financial difficulties does what any down to earth person would do - they go on a reality show! Millie, who runs a chicken farm, is conflicted with her love for her chickens and her family's financial state. Angela Lovecraft hosts a traveling reality show and chooses this chicken farmer as her next target. When Millie decides to go on the reality show to save her farm, two worlds collide and more than just the chickens will be affected.

screenings:
Sat, Apr 28 - 8:00 PM --> there will be a Q&A with cast and crew after.
Tue, May 01 - 6:00 PM

About the film:
Cast & Crew
director: David Pomes, Derek Purvis
screenwriter: Christy Cashman
Cast: Christy Scott Cashman, Jay Herrington, Kathryn Erbe, Parker Posey
producer: Christy Cashman, Derek Purvis
composer: Patrick Ruth
cinematographer: Patrick Ruth
editor: Branan Edgens

Tickets between $12 to $15. Click here to find out more.

Follow Saint Aire at facebook or twitter. Here is also their new homepage. (I can't believe they didn't check how to spell their actors names *roll with eyes*. Sigh, there was also a screening at April 10th at MPC, Massachusetts. The information policy of this production company is so irreproducible for me.)

Mother's House
Davis Hall 2011
Categories: Short

Run time: 26 min. | U.S.A.

While cleaning out his late mother's home, Thomas and his wife uncover increasingly disturbing secrets until the conflict between memory and truth threatens to destroy them both.

screenings:
Tue, May 01 - 4:00 PM
screens with...

Trials And Short Tribulations
Rigby | Christopher Oroza 2010
Mr. Nakamura's Addiction | Scott Eriksson 2011
Maddoggin' | Terence Heuston
Moving Forward | Joshua Weber 2010

About the film:
Cast & Crew
director: Davis Hall
screenwriter: Davis Hall, Ingrid Price
Cast: Denny Dillon, Eddie Schweighardt, Kathryn Erbe, Tim Guinee
producer: Davis Hall, Ingrid Price
composer: Malcolm Payne
cinematographer: Roger Grange
editor: Anne Barliant

Tickets $12. Click here to find out more.

Mother's House Festival Update

Ingrid posted via kickstarter:

Update #48: A busy April for Mother's House!

After winning Best Thriller at the Big Easy Film Festival last month, we thought we couldn't get any more excited...

And then we learned that Mother's House will show at the Athens International Film Festival on April 15th at 7:30 PM at the lovely Athena Theatre in the "Scary Things in the Night" program.

And then we got word that we're part of the Newport Beach Film Festival in California! We're screening there at 4PM on Tuesday, May 1st in the "Trials and Short Tribulations" program.

Wow! Another banner month on the Festival circuit. Thank you, Kickstarter supporter, for your part in making that happen!

Ingrid and Davis

Please also remember Mother's House at:

• 05.-07. April: 9th Annual Davis Film Festival at Davis California
• 18.-20. April: Going Green Film Festival at Pacific Theaters at the Grove LA

Watch my sidebar - Kathryn 2012 or the two tabs (Kathryn 2010 to 2012, Current Movies Projects) to be updated with Kathryn's projects.

One last glance on Rattlestick...

...for now.

My friend Andrew also used the chance to see Kathryn at Yosemite.

When you want to read more about Blanca's third visit of the play click here.

I hope Kathryn will be again on stage very soon.

P.S. I read at unofficially Kathryn that the Mother's House DVD will be released in summer 2012, when the festival season for the short film is over.

Mother's House @ New Orleans

SCHEDULE

ALL SCREENINGS AND MUSICAL PERFORMANCES

ARE FREE!!!

Come check out some amazing films and listen to some great music!

All screenings and musical performances will be held at:

The Kerry Irish Pub - 331 Decatur Blvd, New Orleans.

YOU MUST BE 18 YEARS OLD or OLDER TO ENTER THE KERRY!

Mother's House will be:

Saturday, March 3rd

2:00 PM - THRILLER SHORTS PROGRAM

Chat

Leka Med Dockor

Mother's House

Shuffle

The Drifter

Mother's House - new website

[Still photos by Colleen Lynch at Cedar Hill Photography.]

The Mother's House team launched their new website. You could watch the movie on several film festivals in 2011 and it's going on. There will be more screenings in 2012, and eventually... you'll be able to download Mother's House and watch it any time on the interwebs!

Here is the list of the next film festivals:


January:

• 27.01-04.02.: 34th International Short Film Festival Clermont-Ferrand, France

April:

• 05.-07.: 9th Annual Davis Film Festival at Davis California
• 18.-20.: Going Green Film Festival at Pacific Theaters at the Grove LA
  

Being Thankful

Here in Germany we don't celebrate Thanksgiving, but I wish all my US friends a wonderful long four days weekend. Even I got a gift yesterday. See what Ingrid Price sent me. I thank her and the whole Mother's House crew very very much for the movie DVD [with German subtitles: jippy]. I am really happy that you let me be so close during the production and also now for the film festival time. I can't wait of the next festival announcements for 2012. Make a red cross for December 6th. There Sundance will publish their short film program list.

Drawing

I know I didn't post very regularly anymore. I'm busy at the LJ and the tvrealm community. There are two big challenges which will end very soon. I also signed up for two new 20 in 20 icon rounds (Mark Salling for guys20in20 and Kate Beckinsale for luck20in20). I hope when I finished these projects I'll spend again more time for Lovely Kathryn. I have many more idea.

But I hope all Kathryn fans of the New York area visited the Big Apple Film Festival and watched Mother's House at the weekend.


Today The Consoler (der Tröster) will have it's German tv premiere. I badly need to show you the vox opening credits of season 10. I read that the quotes of the first episodes were good even though vox didn't advertise the final season very much. I saw a few nice clips but hadn't a chance to record it. Maybe today?


In the meantime three amazing drawings I found at deviantart.com. I always wished to inherit the talent of my dad, but my sister was the lucky one. Unbelievable what some people can draw...
...maybe I'll install a new side-bar section: drawing of the week.

by Silas-Quinn


by tevardarth


by TheDreadedWoeKitten

Venom my dear NYC and Kathryn connection

With thank to retna.com [© Terrence Jennings / Retna, Lt] and my friend venom at Unofficially Kathryn I can show you a few more pictures of Kathryn, her both children and also their two dogs during the 'Get Your Licks on Route 66' event of late September.



Venom was able to talk again with Kathryn (sigh, I'm so happy for him but I also want a chance of this pleasure. Here an extract of their conversation.

...She asked how I was doing, and I asked how it was going there and what she was working on, but to which she said nothing just yet. I suggested Lilah get a show and she said "Yeah, that'd be great, wouldn't it?"

I hope we'll hear very soon about new projects of Kathryn and Lilah [maybe she isn't allow to say something but already negotiating]. Of course, tonight is this ONE NIGHT EVENT: Playwrights Horizons - Dirty Laundry. Also try to catch one of the Mother's House Film Festival screenings. Had been one of you at Jacksonville and watched Sunny Side Up?

P.S. If you didn't already catch it on YT. Here is Kathryn's Message to the Unofficially Kathryn Members made by venom on set of Criminal Intent.

Mother's House at Lucerne

Friday, 21. October 2011, 16:00 - 18:00

I'm so glad that Davis, Ingrid and their team where able to install German subtitles in time so they can join for the award section.

Genres: Drama/Thriller
Directed by: Davis Hall
Sprache/Untertitel - Language/Subtitles: EN/D (ger)
Premierestatus: European

Mother's House Trailer German Subtitles



Während sie das ländliche Haus seiner verstorbenen Mutter ausräumen, entdecken Thomas und seine Frau Catherine zunehmend beunruhigende Geheimnisse bis der Konflikt zwischen Erinnerung und Wahrheit droht, sie beide zu zerstören.

While emptying his late mother's rural home, Thomas and his wife, Catherine, discover increasingly disturbing secrets until the conflict between memory and truth threatens to destroy them both.

28 min, USA, 2011

Tickets bestellen/Buy Tickets

Location: Palace 1

More Woodstock Launching

I thank TheReel for the publishing of the Woodstock Film Festival Vincent D'Onofrio photos. She also guided to the picture source. From there it was only a little step to the Woodstock Launch Party pictures. See, they made more than the two pictures of Kathryn I already showed during my vacation.

Dear, she looked so absolutely gorgeous in this gray dress.

Photographer: John Mazlish and Naomi Schmidt

Plus: Mother's House will be part of the Big Apple International Film Festival (BAFF) at November 6th. Click here for tickets. Sales for this event will begin Oct 01, 2011 12:00 AM EST.

Program 40 – Theater 2
12:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.

A Younger Man – 10 minutes
Dir. John Howard Swain
Synopsis
'Come grow old with me, the best is yet to be'. "A Younger Man" is a short film that explores the choices you make when life cheats you out of the best. Rosa, a woman who has been saddled with the all consuming task of caring for her dying husband makes a bold choice that will unite her with a young passionate man and the two embark on a deceptive journey that begins with murder.

The Burying Beetle – 27 minutes
Dir. Dave Rock
Synopsis
A boy trying to cope with his terminally ill father's impending death discovers religion and becomes convinced that his father must repent and get baptized to save his soul before he dies. His father, a scientist and avowed atheist, doesn't quite see it that way.

Mother's House – 28 minutes
Dir. Davis Hall
Synopsis
While emptying his late mother's rural home, Thomas, and his wife, Catherine, discover increasingly disturbing secrets until the conflict between memory and truth threatens to destroy them both.

Mikel's Faith – 30 minutes
Dir. Alexander Etseyatse
Synopsis
Mikel, an incarcerated former Golden Glove Champ, is suddenly released from prison then tries to restore his former life and confronts his past friends, enemies, and makes a revelation within 24 hours of his release.

Mother's House going Europe

…and looking for an English to German translator for the subtitle. Just let me know and I’ll connect you with Ingrid Price.

But before the short will enter LiFF (Lucerne International Film Festival) between October 19 – 23, you’ll have the chance to catch Kathryn’s movie at the second airing of Woodstock Film Festival tonight. Remember 10 pm during the Lost Found section at Kleinert James Art Center.

The Louisville International Festival of Film also published their schedule calendar. Mother’s House will be shown at Willow Room – Galt House October 8th, 5:30 pm. Look here for ticket information.

If you didn’t catch a tweet, the facebook entry or visited the MH homepage, again the hint to Ulster Magazine. Look at page 13 and following and read a long article about film making in Ulster Country. The writer mentioned Tim Guinee and showed two pictures around the Mother’s House making.

Thomas and Catherine arrive at his late mother's rural home. They are unprepared for what they find. Thomas can hardly remember the last time he was there, and Catherine never even met the old lady. There's a lifetime of accumulated clutter to sort through, and the couple wastes no time starting to empty the house. But more than just "mother's things" await them in the dusty rooms.
The outside world recedes, and what started as a simple task now seems impossible, even dangerous. Possessed by memories and eerie dreams, Catherine and Thomas begin to feel trapped. Then they become aware of a third presence... a sweet-faced young boy, lingering silently in the half-empty rooms.
Catherine is anxious to leave, but Thomas is frozen; unable to discard his old toys, drawn irresistibly to his childhood bedroom. The couple is pulled apart, dismantling themselves as they dismantle the house. There is a terrible secret in mother's house, and they cannot help but discover it.

P.S. Translate to German: "While emptying his late mother's rural home, Thomas and his wife, Catherine, discover increasingly disturbing secrets until the conflict between memory and truth threatens to destroy them both." I passed my version to Ingrid and read another at facebook. Be a part of Kathryn's movie and help the producers to spread their wonderful movie.

Woodstock Film Festival 2011 Launch Party in NYC

By Deborah Medenbach

Hurricane Irene didn’t stop filmmakers from streaming down to the Lower East Side in NYC on Aug. 30 for the Woodstock Film Festival Launch Party. Squeezing in the front door, I was whisked up to the balcony for a quick chat with the director, writer, and two principal actors from “Coming Up Roses.”...

Reporting Live from the 2011 WFF Launch Party at Libation in NYC! Kathryn Erbe ("Mother's House" and "Law and Order") is here with Academy Award Winner Melissa Leo ("The Sea is All I know" and "The Fighter") among other 2011 Festival Participants!

...The party continued with a conversation with first time filmmaker Davis Hall of Stone Ridge about his short narrative “Mother’s House,” starring Kathryn Erbe; a viewing of the engineering wonderfilm “A Bridge Delivered” by Stephen Mallon; receiving an overview of “Taking a Chance on God” produced by High Falls resident Ilene Cutler; and meeting short film “Bang” director Holle Singer. More about these in future posts.

The festival’s schedule for Sept. 21-25 and tickets are now available online at www.woodstockfilmfestival.com.

“Mother’s House” and Stone Ridge’s Davis Hall

Most Ulster county live theater fans know Davis Hall from his acting performances with Actors & Writers in Rosendale. His experiences cleaning out his mother’s house after her death a couple of years ago spurred his new venture into filmmaking, writing and directing “Mother’s House.”

“It was shot in nine days in Stone Ridge at a house near where I live,” Hall said. “The story is about a couple coming to clear out a dead parent’s house. It brings what’s real and what’s memory into question.”

Kathryn Erbe, known for her role as Det. Alexandra Eames on the TV show “Law & Order,” welcomed the lead role alongside Tim Guinee in this 30-minute film.

“It’s a moving thing to care about someone and go through their things,” Erbe said. Davis described finding his parent’s World War II love letters and wondering if it was crossing a boundary to read them. The act of sorting personal effects often gives deeper insight into who they were and facets of their personality that might have been kept hidden.

“Could you ever allow someone to freely go through all of your belongings while you were still alive and accountable?” I asked.

Both conceded some stories can only be told when you’re dead.

“Mother’s House” has its New York Premiere at the Woodstock Film Festival.

Mother's House at Woodstock Film Festival

Mother’s House will be part of the SHORTS SECTION Lost & Found and will have two screenings.

Woodstock Film Festival claimed their schedule.

Kleinert/James Art Center WOODSTOCK 09/23/2011 3:00pm $10
Kleinert/James Art Center WOODSTOCK 09/25/2011 11:00am $10

Get your tickets here.

Fabulous Film Festival Fall

If you follow the Kathryn 2010 to 2011 or Current Movie Project section here at my blog you already know that Mother’s House will be shown in several film festivals in the next months.

Try to catch one of the events (exact dates will be published the next days) and watch Mother’s House! The movie is worth to start being a film festival visitor.

September 21-25 - the 12th annual Woodstock Film Festival [New York]
October 06-09 - Louisville's International Festival of Film (LIFF) [Kentucky]
October 20-23 - Mother's House at Ojai Film Festival [California]

When you’re not close enough to one of these three places, I know there will be even more film festivals to catch the movie. Just check the MH facebook wall or the homepage and you’re up to date.

August 19th there also popped up the news that the wonderful film of Ingrid Price and Davis Hall won the 2011 Silver Colorado Film Award.

2011 Colorado Film Festival Announces Award Winners: Colorado Film Award - Silver is awarded to Mother's House (USA) directed by Davis Hall. While emptying his late mother's rural home, Thomas and his wife, Catherine, discover increasingly disturbing secrets until the conflict between memory and truth threatens to destroy them both.

Congratulation even when I couldn’t find any information about this organization. I think even the MH team didn’t know for sure. See their kickstarter entry:

Dear Kickstarters,
We're not sure what the "Silver Colorado Film Award" is, but we're mighty proud that Mother's House won it!
Go, Team, go!

Chris Washington posted the second part of the One Year Later clip. I think you can catch a glimpse of Kathryn when filming the car scene. But I’m not sure. Enjoy Tim dancing on the wire.

There are no more news about Kathryn’s other movies beside one tweet of Richard Tanne after a question of Nantz.

richardtanne Richard Tanne
We're in the last stages of post. Film will be totally complete in early September! RT @Nantzee Anything new with "Worst Friends?"

Mother's House: One Year Later Part 1

Exactly one year ago, production began on the short film, "Mother's House." In part one of this special video, Davis Hall and Ingrid Price sit down and go over the timeline between then and now, as they wait to hear word on whether or not the film will be accepted into the fall film festivals.

I couldn't spot Kathryn in the video but Tim make funambulation with Edie in his arms...wow.

Made by Chris Washington.

About one year ago, at a small house in stone ridge, Mother’s House began it’s first day of production. For the most part, a majority of the crew had either little or no experience working on a film set (myself included). Fast forward to today and you see that a lot has happened. After nine days of shooting followed by countless months of post-production, the film has now been shown at multiple festivals and may possibly be shown at more during the fall season.

For this occasion, I asked Ingrid Price and Davis Hall to give their thoughts on the whole journey of Mother’s House. In part one of the video, both producers talk a little bit about what happened after shooting stopped as well as talk about their experience at the Breckenridge Film Festival.

Links

Mother’s House Facebook Page
Mother’s House Twitter Page
Peak Road Productions

I can't wait of the fall season and many more film festival dates.

Movie Updates

3 Backyards:

The DVD release is only five days away. So the producers are giving away a 3 Backyards DVD signed by director Eric Mendelsohn and star Edie Falco! Just leave a comment on their facebook page telling them about one of your earliest movie theater experiences. they'll randomly select a winner.

Mother's House:

Little film: big love! Check out what viewers have to say at IMDb and add your own comment and vote.


No news about Worst Frineds and Sunny Side Up and also no hint on another new project of Kathryn. Please let me know, when you hear something or get an interesting link via google allerts, or see a tweet.

Film Festival Marathon

Today you can watch three of Kathryn’s current movie projects at three film festivals. Maybe you’re able to arrange all together and use a beamer to switch from Mississippi, to Colorado to Staten Island.

• 3 Backyards at Mississippi Film Inst, Jackson MS
• Mother's House at Breckenridge Festival of Film screens at the Speakeasy Movie House at 9 pm
• The Vanishing City at the 10 Staten Island Film Festival at the St. George's Theater at 6 pm

If you have a little bit more time then join the big Criminal Intent set sale at Chelsea Piers from 8 am to noon.

CHELSEA PIERS—TV memorabilia fans and thrifty bargain hunters unite! From 8am to noon tomorrow, the canceled Law & Order: Criminal Intent will be cleaning house with a massive set sale. All you have to do is bring a box and fill it with whatever you want for just $5. A tipster tells us to look out for mint condition items, such as framed art work and photos, furniture, sinks, womenswear, menswear (no confirmed reports of any leather trench coats worn by Chris "Det. Mike Logan" Noth, though), shoes and...medical equipment. The items you can't fit in a box are priced separately. (We're assuming that includes the x-ray machines). Just follow the paper signs along the East Roadway of Chelsea Piers between Piers 60 and 61. Cue the "doink-doink." [Racked Wire]

On the one hand I want to be there to stroll only one time through the so familiar but fare away set but on the other hand. USA Network couldn’t say more clear that Criminal Intent is over and that there is no chance to renew it again or bring it back in another form like a mini series (4 or 6 or 8 together belonging episodes) or a tv movie.

That’s it. Until now I was happy. Season 10 was so great and Kathryn and Vincent looked so happy to be back, played their two amazing characters fresh and with much joy. I knew it is the end and I was okay with it, but it hurts, yes it hurts to see it black on white.