Jason LaRay Keener

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Jason LaRay Keener
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Jason LaRay Keener

(1985-05-12) May 12, 1985 (age 38)
Centre, Alabama, United States
Website http://www.reiningnails.com

Jason LaRay Keener (born May 12, 1985) is an American filmmaker from Alabama. [1] He is best known for his stream-of-conscious, non-linear shorts. He is related to serial killer Nannie Doss. [2] In 2006, he founded the Jacksonville State University Film Society. In 2012, he married frequent collaborator Diane Rose (Hallelujah! Gorilal Revival, The Unreinable Compulsion ).

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Reining Nails & Catfish with Falcon Wings

In 2006, Keener founded his production company, Reining Nails. [3] [4] From 2006 to 2009, he directed several Southern Gothic-inspired surrealistic short films. His film Hallelujah! Gorilla Revival featured guest voice-overs from filmmakers Cory McAbee, Damon Packard, Todd Rohal and Jamie Stewart of the bands Ten in the Swear Jar, Xiu Xiu and Former Ghosts. [5] The film won Best Experimental Short at the 2009 Nashville Film Festival, [6] as well as Best Alabama Short Film and the Kathryn Tucker Windham Storytelling Award at the 11th annual Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival. [7]

In 2009, Keener released a DVD+R EP of his short films entitled Catfish with Falcon Wings. [8] [9] Catfish with Falcon Wings has been remixed by Brighter Death Now as projection for live shows. [10]

In 2011, the short films of Catfish with Falcon Wings were curated alongside films by Woody Allen, Jean-Luc Godard, Harmony Korine, and David Lynch as part of a film series on problems in contemporary society. The series was programmed by the Pavilion Unicredit Art Gallery in Bucharest, Romania . [11]

In 2010, Keener directed the music video for Xiu Xiu's song, "House Sparrow," from the album Dear God, I Hate Myself . The video stars Sandi Hanson ( The Unreinable Compulsion ) and Lane Hughes ( V/H/S , You're Next ).

The Unreinable Compulsion

The Unreinable Compulsion , described as a psychological drama about an irrational murder, [12] is Keener's first feature-length film. The film stars Jarrod Cuthrell and features actor/dentist Dr. George Hardy ( Troll 2 , Best Worst Movie ) as himself.

Keener cites Robert Bresson, John Carpenter, Unsolved Mysteries , Flannery O'Connor, and Edward Hopper as the primary influences for the style and tone of the film, [2] in which a young man in a small town gives in to his irrational desire to recreationally murder a stranger.

Synopsis

After loner Dewayne Sykes (Jarrod Cuthrell) decides to give in to his irrational desire to recreationally murder a stranger, he begins his search for a random victim and finds one in “Miss Fit” (Jen Stedham), a young jogger he spies at a park. After briefly familiarizing himself with her neighborhood and schedule, he puts his plan into action and commits a murder that will haunt him in ways he could not anticipate. [12]

Collinsville Trade Day, 1988

Collinsville Trade Day, 1988 is an upcoming short documentary co-directed and edited by Jason LaRay Keener. It's a found-footage collaboration with his grandfather, Charles Keener, based on footage Charles shot in 1988 of a popular outdoor market in the Northeast Alabama town of Collinsville. The film will debut at the 2015 Nashville Film Festival in Nashville, Tennessee.

Synopsis

In 1988, Charles Keener took a video camera to Collinsville, AL to document the town's outdoor market for his young grandson. 26 years later, this newly discovered footage has been edited by the grandson into a short documentary. [13]

Filmography

Feature films

Short films

Music videos

As actor

As score composer

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