Automatic Vaudeville Studios

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Automatic Vaudeville Studios (AVS) is an underground movie collective based out of Montreal.

AVS was founded in 1998 by Mark Slutsky, Daniel Perlmutter, and Seth W. Owen. [1] They modeled the collective on "golden age" Hollywood's movie studios, [2] AVS has produced close to 100 shorts using local artists, musicians, actors and other unpaid talent to bring their no-budget genre-inspired entertainments to life. "The lower budget you have, the more control you have over the picture," collective member Slutsky said in a 2005 newspaper interview. "It means you have to use your head." [2]

Some of Automatic Vaudeville's productions include The Recommendations (2005), [3] a comedy about jealousy and revenge in the literary demi-monde; [1] Spanked: The Ron Friendly Story, about the tumultuous life and times of a fictional performance artist; Young Cons, and the series known as the Schandcycle, which features improvised music performed by Montreal music collective Schandkollektief.

A selection of Automatic Vaudeville's work can be found on their limited-run DVD releases, Your Hi-Class DVD, Vol. 1 and Your Hi-Class DVD, Vol. 2.

Selected filmography

References

  1. 1 2 Young, Dylan (2004-11-25). "Automatic Vaudeville". NOW Toronto. Retrieved 2025-11-04.
  2. 1 2 Whyte, Murray (2005-02-09). "Invoking Hollywood glory on nickel and dime". The Toronto Star. pp. F1, F4 . Retrieved 2025-11-04– via Newspapers.com.
  3. ↑ "On Screen (review of The Recommendations)". Eye Weekly. June 16, 2005. Archived from the original on 2006-07-21.
  4. ↑ "Film". Adam Gollner. Retrieved 2025-11-04.
  5. ↑ Bigge, Ryan (July 12, 2011). "I'm Feeling Unlucky: Independent Culture in the Google Era". Broken Pencil. Retrieved 2025-11-04.
  6. ↑ DeWolf, Christopher (2010-07-22). "Montreal-Style Voyeurism". Maisonneuve. Retrieved 2025-11-04.
  7. ↑ Hays, Matt (December 15, 2008). "Quebec comics star in Peepers". Playback. Retrieved 2025-11-04.
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