"Medium"
"The Knight and the Maestro"
"Zombeatles"
Ben Wydeven, Director/Writer (Medim/Knight)
Doug Gordon, Producer/Editor (Zomb)
Recorded March 10, 2009
The films
"The Medium" - Raven James and his girlfriend are walking by a rundown movie theater when Raven notices a ghostly woman standing inside. Later, Raven returns to the theater in order to get to the bottom of this mystery, and we quickly learn two things: one, Raven is a medium and two the owner of this theater isn't too keen on people poking around in his building. What has he got to hide and why is he so edgy about someone investigating these supernatural events?
"The Knight and the Maestro" - is about two college roommates living in the residence halls whose personalities are as different as night and day. Scott, the Knight, spends a lot of his time playing Dungeons and Dragons and watching TV, Andy, the Maestro, cleans the room and listens to classical music.
The Knight and the Maestro was filmed in the winter and spring of 2004, and shot on location at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
"Zombeatles" - Titled The Zombeatles: All You Need Is Brains, this short film was written and directed by Doug Gordon, and shot and edited by Madison filmmaker Ben Wydeven. Running a very television friendly 22 minutes in length, the mockumentary recasts the story of The Beatles in an undead world. The film is presented in the format similar to an episode of Behind the Music, the long-running VH1 biographical series that followed the stories of musicians and bands across the ups and downs of their careers. Angus MacAbre (Gordon) serves as host of this particular program, which couples his narration with commentary by other undead music notables and stylized "archival" footage of the band in action to tell a tale about the fall and rise of arguably the greatest zombie band ever to shamble on stage.
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Ben Wydeven - Ben Wydeven has been writing and directing his own movies since he was 16. He began taking his filmmaking pursuits more seriously while attending college at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point where he earned a bachelors degree in communications.
Ben’s latest film, a horror thriller entitled The Medium, has won several awards including Best of Horror (Wildwood Film Festival) and Best Short (WYOU Film Festival, 2008).
Ben recently shot and edited The Zombeatles: All You Need is Brains. He gave acting a shot with a short HD comedy called The Pick Up Line which he also wrote and edited. Ben currently lives in Madison.
Doug Gordon - Doug Gordon is originally from Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Armed with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in creative criting and a creative communications diploma (Major: journalism), he’s done his best to make public radio more creative and entertaining throughout North America (next stop –Mexico?). In the This Canadian Existence episode of his critically acclaimed special
radio series, New Audio Showroom, Gordon tried to answer the provocative question, "Are Canadians just Americans who carry hockey sticks instead of guns or is there more to it than that?" Gordon also has acted in such Winnipeg Film Group independent productions as The Exquisite Corpse and an adaptation of Franz Kafka’s classic short story The Hunger Artist, in which he played the title character. Unfortunately the craft services on this production left a lot to be desired.
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The Medium
The Zombeatles
The Medium is available on DVD
The Medium on IMDB
