Singing (2000) | Stream

SINGING, 9@Night Film#4

Perry Truman, an accountant from the suburbs, rejects a tryst offered by his live-in girl friend of 20 years. She wants to rekindle their love. He has just quit his job. Wandering the Tenderloin that night he is drawn into a series of dangerous and erotic street encounters. Everyone sings in SINGING, except the real singer. Perry sings the same song twice but with different meanings. At the end he sings like a man who knows he has failed to live passionately.

• Winner: San Francisco Film Critic's Circle Marlon Riggs Award for courage and innovation in the cinema, 2008.

• Praise from Ray Carney and the Academy Foundation:

https://harvardfilmarchive.org/programs/9-night-the-films-of-rob-nilsson-2/

• World Premiere: Mill Valley International Film Festival, 2000.

• The World Premiere marathon screening of all the 9 @ Night Films took place at the Harvard Film Archive in 2007.

"...but the stylistic rawness and the story’s descending arc eloquently pose the question of whether apparently well-ordered, middle-class lives are that far removed from the chaos of the streets."

- Fred Camper, Chicago Reader, October 26, 2000

Director:

• Rob Nilsson

Story:

• Rob Nilsson

Improvised by the Cast:

• Jim Carpenter – Perry

• Barbara Jaspersen – Mandy

• Domenique Lozano – Singer

• Devin Qualls – Devon

• Josh Peterson – Bob

• Teddy Weiler – Homeless Man

• Edwin Johnson – Homeless Man

• Tammy Young – Dancer

• John Hunsaker – Chuckles

• Bruce Marovich – Undercover Cop

• Dale Messmer – Undercover Cop

• Selana Allen – Waitress

• David Scott Smith – Cigarette Guy

• Destiny Costa – Street Woman

• Kate Skwire – Street Woman

Cinematography :

• Bill Corona

• Mickey Freeman

• Ethan Sing

Production Manager:

• Mira Larkin

Sound:

• Rand Crook

• Saul Rouda

• T.J. Walkup

Art Director:

• Jennifer Burns

Editor:

• Josh Peterson

Additional Editors:

• Sprague Anderson

• Robert Frey

Sound Editor:

• Al Nelson

Producers:

• Bill Corona

• Rob Nilsson

Dedicated To:David Schickele

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