Category Archives: Filmmaking

The Cucuy Club

Filmmaking, Movies

 

THE CUCUY CLUB (2012).

Writer, director, DP, editor:

Erik Bosse

Additional production assistance from:

Carlos Piña, and Noi Mahoney.

Cast:

Carlos Piña, Gabriel Carmona, Marisela Barrera, Victo Payan, Noi Mahoney, Hector Machado, and TJ Gonzales.

Music by:

Roberto Livar (Bombasta: Big Barrio Band), and Carlos Piña.

Special thanks:

URBAN-15, G2E Creative, Ron Garcia, the San Antonio Office of Cultural Affairs, and the San Antonio Film Commission.

The Cucuy Club was produced for the 2012 San Antonio Neighborhood Film Project. I’m quite fond of this one. Sadly it didn’t make the cut. Not only did it not win any prizes, but it wasn’t even screened at the city-sponsored event. What a bunch of creeps! So I created an evening of free screenings for some of those who also didn’t make the grade. Slab Cinema helped out and we had our screening party in the backyard of G2E, which was, at that time, housed on S. St. Mary’s  Street.

Why this didn’t win is beyond me. I mean I brought out the big guns. If I couldn’t win with Marisela Barrera making passionate love to an accordion, and Victor Payan in a mask, what chance do any of us have?

The script is actually a vignette from a longer, and as yet unfinished piece of the same title.

Here’s a little teaser I created in hopes of getting people to come to the screening which never happened…. “You must be the vatos from the internet.”

Leith’s Candle Dance at Noche de Recuerdos

Art, Dance, Filmmaking, Movies, Performance

 

Noche de Recuerdos was an annual event created by Proyectos Locos—Ramon Vasquez y Sanchez, Deborah Keller-Rihn, and myself. We presented this evening of floating, illuminated altars in the latter portion of October 2010, 2011, and 2012. The location was the small casting pond adjacent to Woodlawn Lake. There was also music, dance, and story-telling. Here is Leith Askins performing her candle dance. I had a moment to shoot a bit with my camera during some downtime, and I’m glad I was able to capture this beautiful moment.

Rolando Briseño’s Spinning San Antonio Fiesta at the Alamo

Art, Filmmaking, Movies, Music

 

Rolando Briseño is a San Antonio-based public artist. He proudly embraces the designation of Cultural Adjustor (I believe it’s printed on his business cards). There have been several events over the years (sometimes at the Alamo, sometimes in a gallery space) where Rolando has curated similar shows to prompt people to reconsider the prevailing mythos surrounding the Alamo. This video was taken during the 2011 event, which, I believe, was staged on the feast day of Saint Anthony de Padua, June 13. There are way too many luminaries from the local arts and cultural scene to list here, but we do have a who’s-who of San Antonio, whether as part of the ceremonies, or as members of the audience bearing witness to this moment of cultural adjustment. The band playing is Los Nahuatlatos, and I poached some of their live performance during the event to use for the music bed. I shot this all so loosely, with no intention of editing it into anything, really. I just happened to have my camera with the (cameras are wonderful devices for the socially awkward introvert to hide behind), but when I got home later that day and edited together a short montage, I loved how the emotions (joyful and tragic, at the same time) were so fortuitously captured.

[UPDATE: On September 5, 2024, Centro de Artes Gallery unveiled a show. Dining with Rolando Briseño: A 50-Year Retrospective. My little film was included (true, it’s but a minor footnote to Rolando’s impressive and on-going career, but I’m very honored). The show continues through Feb. 9, 2025. I hope to make it to town and see it.]

A Bourbon Would Be Nice

Filmmaking, Movies

 

A BOURBON WOULD BE NICE (2011).

Writer, director, DP, editor:

Erik Bosse

Additional production assistance from:

Roslava Gonzalez, Amanda Silva, and Deborah Keller-Rihn.

Cast (in order of appearance):

Lisa Suarez, Dino Foxx, Mellissa Marlowe, Gabriel Carmona, ST Shimi, Chris Gonzales, Dr. Rita Urquijo-Ruiz, Sandy Dunn, Raquel Beechner, Nikki Young, and Jacinto Guevara.

Music by:

Lisa Arnold

Special thanks:

C4 Workspace, Jump-Start Production Co., Rome Talent, PrimaDonna Productions, the San Antonio Office of Cultural Affairs, the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, and the San Antonio Film Commission.

A Bourbon Would Be Nice was produced for the 2011 San Antonio Neighborhood Film Project (which is one of the programs connected with the DCCD). It’s a contest based project, and only those who are selected by the judging panel receive any funds. I think this one came close, but looking at it now, I cringe at the flaws (all of which are my doing): overly shallow depth of field causing the subject to drift out of focus; ghastly lighting in the “bar;” inexplicably poor audio, also in the “bar;” and a shoddy “fix” for the bad audio in a couple of the clips. But I couldn’t have asked for a better cast. And I do love the scene with Lisa and Chris shot in Shimi’s house. It’s warm, funny, playful, and all three of them look great.

Here’s a group photo of Rosalva, Shimi, Christopher, and Lisa.

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And two images of Lisa’s wonderful transformation.

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And a photo of the Southside Reporter, with a picture of ME on the cover! (Here’s a link to the online article.)

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