Apartment Eight (1987)

Directed by

Matthew Harrison

Genre

comedy film

Country

United States

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two former roommates, Todd and Martin, recall their messy past living together in a small New York apartment. They re-enact scenes about losing status and sharing girlfriends, all shot in one cramped kitchen.

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What happens

Apartment Eight is a 1987 Lower East Side comedy short film by director Matthew Harrison, which won Best Comedy at the 1988 New York Film Festival Downtown and the Mystic Fire Independent Film Award at the 1989 Ann Arbor Film Festival. Rave-Ups singer Michael Kaniecki (who also wrote the score) and theater director Bob McGrath play former roommates Todd and Martin who, in the early 1980s, briefly led overlapping lives in Apartment Eight. Shot on S8mm film in monthly installments over a one-year period, most of the scenes in Apartment Eight were done as single takes in a cramped Clinton street tenement kitchen, as Todd and Martin re-enact some of the episodes of their downwardly mobile, girlfriend-sharing past. The title theme for the film, credited to Michael Kaniecki & the RSO, was performed by Su Bachemin, George Carter, Michael Kaniecki, and Brian Kaup. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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