I WILL SMASH YOU preview at the Baltimore Contemporary Museum

2pm-4pm: Smashing for Success on July 18th @ 2pm-4pm @ the Contemporary Museum, 100 W. Centre Street.
Michael Kimball and Luca Dipierro, co-creators of the documentary film I Will Smash You, will show some of the documentary and then lead a workshop in which participants are encouraged to share a story about an object that has some personal meaning for them and then destroy that object in whatever manner they wish. Destroyed relics will be housed in an archive in the gallery space. Bring an item for smashing, goggles or gloves if you have them, and a will to smash.

I WILL SMASH YOU

I WILL SMASH YOU, the film I made with Michael Kimball, is ready. The editing took a lot of work, more than anything I've worked on so far. The film is produced by Michael Kimball and me: Little Burn Films.

Here are the full credits:

Little Burn Films presents
I WILL SMASH YOU
a film by Luca Dipierro & Michael Kimball
concept by Michael Kimball
directed by Luca Dipierro
edited by Luca Dipierro & Michael Kimball
camera by Rachel Bradley, Luca Dipierro, Rodney McLaughlin
with, in random order: Susan Nolan, Ivan Bojanic, Adam Robinson, Chancellor Pascale, Ella Grossbach, Geoff Becker, Jessica Gill, Andy Kratz, Leslie F. Miller, Gregg Wilhelm, Tom Smith, Monica Mohindra, Bonnie Jones, Mike Rippe, Jeff Rettberg, Molly Warsh and Piotr Gwiazda, Michael Kimball, Betsy Boyd.
special thanks to Crazy Ray's and Brent Green



And here's the copy for the film, in case anybody wants to blog about it:
I WILL SMASH YOU is a documentary film in which dozens of people each tell a story about an object that has some personal meaning for them and then destroy that object in whatever manner they wish. Michael Kimball interviews each person about their chosen object and the story behind it, which leads to amazing realizations, for both the subject and the viewer.

There are 18 different chapters filled with people, objects, destruction, resolution, and understanding. A man burns his discharge papers from the Army in attempt to exorcise his recurring nightmares about being forced to re-enlist (and always at a lower rank). A teenage girl destroys a papier-mâché version of her mean teacher's head, which she cracks open and then burns in an attempt to get all the meanness out. A man smashes his procrastination. Another man burns his favorite double album, the one that he listened to over and over to get through adolescence. A woman destroys a ceramic bust of Zeus that bears an uncanny resemblance to her husband. Another woman destroys her Ford Taurus with a crowbar because it is cursed.

I WILL SMASH YOU is filled with moments of relief, moments of release, unexpected realizations, and a couple of political statements. You have never seen a film like this

We'll start to screen I WILL SMASH YOU in September. The release party/premiere will happen somewhere in Baltimore.
Anybody interested in getting a screener copy of the DVD can write me at lucadipierro@yahoo.it

Minuscule art

I started making these as a reaction to an artist friend of mine who told me that I should make bigger art. I went smaller instead, and smaller and smaller, and stopped only when I wasn't able to go any smaller.
I'll make you a minuscule painting for 5 dollars, shipping included. I guarantee that it will be the smallest piece of art in your apartment.

Dormi, Stacca, Red Skull One

New art. A couple of these will be used for a 7" cover. 7" are better than 12" and both 7" and 12" are better than walls.

Quit Having Fun

I made some art for a double CD compilation called Quit Having Fun, by the Italian label Boring Machines.

Unplugging Philco

I made this trailer for Unplugging Philco, the new novel of my friend Jim Knipfel, out now (Simon & Schuster).
Music by Il Gruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza.

The Fall