Made in Texas: Tribute to Austin Film Society 2018 / Rat Pack Rat / USA 2014
Todd Rohal’s dark, comedic cinema is inspired by slapstick, vaudeville, silent-era comedies, and the bizarre and grotesque. This short, which won a major prize at the Sundance Film Festival, is about a terminally ill young man visited by a Sammy Davis Jr. impersonator.
Austin-based filmmaker Todd Rohal’s dark, comedic cinema is inspired by slapstick, vaudeville, silent-era comedies, and the bizarre and grotesque. This made-in-Austin short, which won a major prize at the Sundance Film Festival, is about a terminally ill young man visited by a Sammy Davis Jr. impersonator.
Holly Herrick
19 min / Color, DCP
Director Todd Rohal
/ Screenplay Todd Rohal
/ Dir. of Photography Benjamin Kasulke
/ Music Joseph Stephens
/ Editor Todd Rohal
/ Art Director Scott Colquitt
/ Producer Todd Rohal, Zack Carlson, Megan Griffiths, Clay Liford, Ashland Viscosi
/ Production Smits Brothers
/ Coproduction Arts+Labor
/ Cast Eddie Rouse, Steve Little, Margie Beegle
/ Contact Smits Brothers
Todd Rohal. Selected filmography: The Guatemalan Handshake (2006), The Catechism Cataclysm (2011), Nature Cells (2012), Rat Pack Rat (2014, short), Uncle Kent 2 (2015), The Suplex Duplex Complex (2017, TV)
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