Automatic Vaudeville Studios

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

  • Bluebeard
  • He Killed for Love
  • The Southside Five
  • Young Cons
  • The Sophisticated Detectives (2001)
  • Spanked: The Ron Friendly Story (2002)
  • The Successor (2002)[4]
  • Krangor: Legend of the Galaxy (2003)
  • Here’s Looking At Us Chapter One: The First 5 Years: Automatic Vaudeville 1998-2003: Our Story (2003)
  • Schandfilm (2004)
  • The Recommendations (2005)[5]
  • Peepers (2008)[6][7]

References

  1. ^ a b Young, Dylan (2004-11-25). "Automatic Vaudeville". NOW Toronto. Retrieved 2025-11-04.
  2. ^ a b 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.
  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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