Our Story

Welcome, welcome... My name is Lucas and I am a director in Minneapolis, MN. I am a current student at the lovely MCTC studying Directing.  I grew up a farm boy in the outskirts of Marine on St. Croix, a place where cows are plentiful,  and lumberjacks once ruled the land. I got my bearings whilst playing extravagant games with Barbie dolls, and it manifested into a love for storytelling and costume/set design. I would call my style a Nightmarish fashion horror show, due to an extreme obsession with witches, apparitions and the darker areas of human existence.

As a gay filmmaker, I have an obligation to stand up for the people that need some legs, and I don't just mean the gay youth,  I mean people that want to be treated normal, people that are constantly confronted with infesting thoughts of being abnormal and needing to be fixed. We need to accept that People are strange, infinitely...

Below are a few short films that I have created along with my editor Nicholas Elstran and my cinematographer Erik Elstran. These two lovely lads have been fast friends of mine since we met last Spring. It's strange how much we have in common visually, but aside from our joined obsessions with science fiction and the odd and obscure; we share the same humor.

 I would like to point out that the three of us are not very restricted when it comes to crossing over into other areas of art; Nick is a painter, musician, writer, prop maker and occasional mutant. While Arik is a pro-BMX rider,writer and photographer, actor and T.V. scientist. I myself am a writer/director, actor and musician with a love for fashion and stylized stories, I have a past mainly in theatre and classical singing. Because film is such a multifaceted medium, each and every one of these skills applies to our movies (i.e. Erik riding on the back of a tricycle while filming) 

My films,

http://vimeo.com/user5528695

On to Snow White...

"As a moth writhes in black oil; he tosses his wings like battered floppy disks. But tell me,  how can we see him if not for the light on his back?"

The fair, the tortured and the evil exist together. In a dark night land in a kind of purgatory, Sno Whyte has lost her way. Does she sleep? Does she dream? Even the fair dream in darkness,  even the good can lose their way in the woods, in the dark, amidst the wolves and amidst what is plainly and purely evil.

If you wish to read the full screenplay, 13 pages, 13 minutes, I am happy to send it to you!

The Impact

This film illustrates what we do best, and in our last year of film school it is very important that we utilize the resources we have here. I am a storyteller, and I would cherish the opportunity to tell you one.

I am riddled with ashtray haunts till the moon blooms each night, then like the ghosts behind my eyeballs; the witches slide out of their trunks, before stars ignite them, before townsmen spite them,  they float about my head like black flies on wet skin. If I must see them, then at least let me press record. If I tell these stories; if I can watch my nightmares. Can't I rewind them too?

The Molfluga Drengur, 1904

What We Need & What You Get

The truth is that I am a student running on empty. I make all of my costumes, props, and sets myself (with the help from the Elstran bros) but we can't do it with a couple hay pennies. Money goes to fabric, clay, makeup, wigs, liquid latex, props, and transportation. With my tuition, we get to use cameras ranging from the Bolex to the Red (what we will be shooting) But that is such a small portion of the picture, it is what they capture that we see.

At MCTC we audition SAG actors for our projects, but this round I have decided to use actors I have known from various shows I have been in. The cast thus far is wonderful and I foresee great things for this project. But it all depends on you, if you have any inkling that this is worth investing, I would be very thankful. This is what we love to do, we put everything we have into these class assignments because at the end of the day, these opportunities are priceless. 

I am so thankful for a community like this, where we help each other based purely on our love for cinema, It truly is a beautiful thing! I thank all of you for even reading this, support young filmmakers, we are coming on up!