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Andrew Repasky McElhinney (born 1978) is an American film and theater director, writer and producer born in Philadelphia. McElhinney's cinema work is in the permanent collection of MoMA-The Museum of Modern Art, New York. [1]
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Andrew Repasky McElhinney (born 1978) is an American film and theater director, writer and producer born in Philadelphia. McElhinney's cinema work is in the permanent collection of MoMA-The Museum of Modern Art, New York. [1]
McElhinney holds degrees from The New School for Social Research (NYC) and The European Graduate School (EGS) [2] in Switzerland. In 2011, McElhinney defended his PhD dissertation, which was subsequently published by McFarland and Company as Second Takes: Remaking Film, Remaking America, ISBN 978-0-7864-7761-6. [3] He has been an instructor at Rutgers, [4] Rowan and Temple Universities, among others, teaching Screenwriting, Cinema and American Studies.
In 1994, while in high school, he formed "ARMcinema25.com", [5] a company devoted to producing movies.
In 1994, McElhinney released the short films, The Scream and Her Father’s Expectancy".
In 1995, McElhinney made a silent musical entitled A Maggot Tango. [6] The original camera negative is in the permanent collection of MoMA-The Museum of Modern Art, New York, object number W23983. [7]
McElhinney’s first feature Magdalen [8] is about "a world-weary young woman who earns her living in a bar, telling stories to lonely people for money." [9] Philadelphia Weekly wrote of the movie that, "Smith’s presence on-screen is fascinating, unromantic and tough. The film itself unravels languidly, with stylish, moody black-and-white photograph from local cinematographer Abe Holtz." [9] The original camera negative is in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art. [10]
McElhinney's second feature debuted in 2000, the period art-slasher film, A Chronicle of Corpses , starring Marj Dusay, Kevin Mitchel Martin, Oliver Wyman, David Semonin, Margot White and Ryan Foley. [11] } A Chronicle of Corpses made a "festival splash" [12] and was praised by Dave Kehr of The New York Times. [13] Dennis Lim, in The Village Voice, wrote that A Chronicle of Corpses was “[e]asily the most peculiar American indie to play New York theaters this year… alternately flamboyant and minimal… Abe Holtz's resourceful camera switches between fussy, iconic frescoes and showboat prowls. ...rancid opulence and humid religiosity.” [14]
His next film was Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye released in 2003. [15] [16] Dennis Harvey, in Variety , said the film affirmed McElhinney's "certifiable coolness" and was "a punk-pornocopia equivalent to Last Year at Marienbad ." [17]
McElhinney's film, Animal Husbandry (2008) is a "pop art fusion of 1930s pre-code romantic comedy and European regietheater." [18]
McElhinney's film Christmas Dreams (2015) is a children's holiday musical fantasy, the movie was a shot entirely on a soundstage and features extensive special effects and CGI. [19]
McElhinney's movie "Casual Encounters: Philadelphia True Crime Confessions" is in post-production. [20] The project is “based on newspaper reports, interviews and trial transcripts, it reframes Philadelphia true crime narratives to make viewers complicit in, and forced to examine the urban issues of poverty, illegal drugs, gentrification, as well as crime as entertainment, and the voice of violence in domestic American society. …[It] is an epic tour though five radically different, yet adjacent, neighborhoods… The experience is a history of the city 1960–2010, with each neighborhood shot in a different physical film format (4K HD, 35MM, 16MM negative/reversal, Super 8MM, iPhone 5, miniDV and VHS)." [21]
October 6, 2006, McElhinney shot the ten-minute short, The Things We Do For Love: A Cinemagic at the Cinemagic 3 movie theater, Walnut Street, just prior to the multiplex's demolition.
McElhinney chronicled the European Graduate School's tenth anniversary in residence in Saas-Fee, Switzerland in the hour-long direct cinema documentary, "European Graduate School: Digital Video Diary-August 2008".[ citation needed ]
In 2009, McElhinney created the video projections for Brat Production's Haunted House, "Haunted Poe" [22] and created two short films for the event, "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "Poe's Last Train Ride". The Philadelphia Inquirer praised McElhinney's work as "Hitchcockian". [23] The entire production was credited as "the season's wildest ride." [24]
June 2004, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts presented a retrospective of McElhinney's movies and installation work (to date), with the film director as some movie cast alumni in attendance. [25]
October 2013, the Zoetropolis Art House, in collaboration with Franklin & Marshall College, presented a revival of McElhinney's debut feature, Magdalen, projected on film. [26]
December 2019, Woodmere Art Museum presented screenings of the original version (without the post-release producer-added narration) of McElhinney's fifth feature, Christmas Dreams. [27]
May 2020, the Lichtblick-Kino in collaboration with Freie Universität Berlin presented a revival of McElhinney's third feature, Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye.[ citation needed ]
Since 1993, McElhinney has directed theater productions including "The Visitor" (McElhinney) – 1993, "Oleanna" (Mamet) – 1996, "The Artificial Jungle" (Ludlum) – 1997, "The Malady of Death" (Duras) – NYC 1999, "The Peek-A-Boo Revue Burlesque Show" – 2003–2007, "Who Milk Dat Was?" (Wildau) – 2007, "Death and Devil" (Wedekind) – 2009, [28] "Blue Movie: A Film By Andy Warhol" (Warhol) – 2010, "Macbeth" (Shakespeare) – 2010, "The Cowen Bridge Girls" (Giovanni/McElhinney) – 2011, "Rent" (Larson – musical staging only) – 2011, "Timon of Athens" (Shakespeare) – 2011, "Q+C" (Cook) – 2012, "Titus Andronicus" (Shakespeare) – 2013, "Troilus and Cressida" (Shakespeare) – 2015.
2016-2020 McElhinney was the Producing Artistic Associate at Torn Out Theater [29] which produced and promoted theatrical productions that inspired and challenged audiences to explore the questions of modern sexuality, gender, and the body politic in public spaces.
In 2017, McElhinney and writing partner Greg Giovanni were commissioned by New Yiddish Rep to create a screen adaptation of Sholem Asch's drama, God of Vengeance. [30]
McElhinney is the director of Shakespeare in Harrowgate Park, a theater production entity committed to free, outdoor performances of classic theater, live music and children's theater in Harrowgate Park. [31]
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