Sunset Parker Finds Meat Online

We were amused to find the latest post at the always wonderful Sunset Parker blog--one of our top Brooklyn favorites-because we'd come across the video in question back in July or August. Turns out that Sunset produced a short "horror comedy" called Meat in the late 1990s and he just discovered that someone has posted it on Google Videos. We found it there during the summer as we were casting about for Brooklyn vids, and had it on our list of things to post before it became submerged in the daily flood of material. In any case, we'll let Sunset explain:

We were surfing the web when we stumbled on Meat, a short horror comedy we directed nine years ago. Not sure how we feel about some stranger (we have no idea who the woman who posted it is, though we've contacted her) posting our movie to Google Video. (Also the upload quality is kinda crappy compared to the original cinematography which received plenty of kudos and accolades- again, nice, Matt). We sold it to the Sundance Channel in '97 where it received heavy repeat airplay around Halloween for a few years (true story: we checked into a hotel on October 30, 1999, turned on the tv and it was playing) and developed a show with MTV around it. (disaster creatively, success financially). We only recently received the rights back from MTV, so that was part of our dismay at finding it on Google Video (posted by a stranger no less). Anyway, it won a bunch of film festivals all over the world and provided us with several awesome opportunities to travel, bask in some glory and most importantly quit the day job.

The video is bloody, but it's shot entirely locally including a couple of scenes in Gowanus. Watch it by going to Sunset Parker (which is always worth doing regardless) or clicking on the embed.

While we're on the topic of videos, check out our own Brookvids series, which we've been posting on the weekends, but which we'll be doing more of as time goes on.