Check out this very worthwhile project to bring a life-sized bronze bust of Edgar Allan Poe to the Boston Public Library. It has already been backed by Guillermo del Toro and us, so you’ll be in good company! In addition … Read More
MAGNETIC Kickstarter-reward lipsync Misfits – “Hybrid Moments” – Song chosen by Allix Mortis, dedicated to Kickstarter backer Noel Kelly!shot by Michael J. Epstein on the set of MAGNETIC! Art Direction for this shoot by Zombie Romance/Kristilyn Check out our other Kickstarter … Read More
So far, Sophia and I have run two modest Kickstarter campaigns – both successful – for our films TEN (stats on TEN) and MAGNETIC (I never wrote up my analysis, but Kicktraq summary of stats). In preparing for these campaigns, we spent a very … Read More
congrats to Porcelain Dalya!!! Michael’s photo ID TEN had its Rhode Island Premiere at the (first!) Terror Con Film Festival this past weekend and we won the Best Actress in a feature for Porcelain Dalya’s brilliant turn as the co-ed! … Read More
MAGNETIC Kickstarter-reward lipsync goes out to kickstarter backer, Phil White! Starring Allix Mortis and Tamora Gooding (as Sheep Dog), Rachel Leah Blumenthal (as Sheep), and Amy Macabre (as Wolf) it’s Logan Whitehurst and the Junior Science Club’s “Robot Cat” Shot … Read More
Friends of TEN is our blog series briefly highlighting fundraisers and projects that are associated with independent film, particularly genre film. If you love exploitation films as much as we do, go check out the Kickstarter campaign for The Ungovernable Force, a … Read More
MAGNETIC Kickstarter-reward lipsync goes out to kickstarter backer, Joe Renken! Starring Allix Mortis it’s Danzig‘s “Mother” !!! Lip-sync was shot by Kelly Davidson on the set of MAGNETIC! Find out more about MAGNETIC at: http://magneticthemovie.com/ Amazing pods built by KTRON! Check out our other … Read More
We had a great time at TEN’s Maine debut at the very first Sanford International Film Festival (SIFF facebook)! JCStarzzPhotography The Sanford International Film Festival is dedicated to entertaining the members of its community by providing a platform for the works … Read More
We’ve been very busy at Magnetostatic Systems! We had three full evenings of just shooting monitors and dialogue. Luckily this was set up at Epiola-Caccistein headquarters where it stayed for two weeks where we could keep coming back to it! … Read More
behind-the-scenes photo by Kelly Davidson MAGNETIC lipsync goes out to kickstarter backer, SARAH WAIT ZARANEK! Starring Allix Mortis it’s Hall and Oates’ “Private Eyes” Also, as trivia, “Private Eyes” was not the song Allix actually danced to, the original song … Read More
Even as a young boy, I remember being extremely bothered by the attention given on the news to murderers and other violent criminals. I watched my friends beam with excitement when they happened to be in the right place at … Read More
http://www.curvemag.com/Review/Film/No-One-Is-Who-They-Seem-Not-Even-You/ What makes this movie stand out? It’s a slasher flick, and so much more. There is the play on identity as there is more than meets the eye for each and every one of them. Appearances can be – … Read More
MAGNETIC’s latest lipsync goes out to kickstarter backer, CHRIS MARCH! Allix Mortis as Akon and Sophia Cacciola as Snoop Dogg in “I Wanna Love You” Lip-sync was shot by Michael J. Epstein and Kelly Davidson with tech help from … Read More
FAT is an independent, locally produced film with a rocking soundtrack that also boasts all Boston-local bands. FAT premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, and it makes its Boston premiere at Independent Film Festival Boston! “Powered by an utterly … Read More
Last weekend we shuffled into the Sound Museum in Allston for a full day of shooting. And, if you’re wondering, yes, drummers are playing paradiddles at 9AM on Sunday morning. ALL IS RIGHT IN MUSIC. Luckily, we weren’t trying to … Read More
this is serious business. here I am pre-gaming with a vegan donut! This past weekend was a total whirlwind and we had the most amazing time premiering TEN at both the Brooklyn Girl Film Fest and the Boston Underground Film … Read More
“Imagine Scream crossed with The Usual Suspects…The art comes with meticulously framed shots full of color, the enjoyment with puzzling out the crazy plot twists.” – Boston Herald “…a Clue-esque, genre-mixing murder-mystery at a haunted mansion…with enough themes and tropes … Read More
MAGNETIC‘s Allix Mortis lip-syncs to Mott the Hoople’s “All the Young Dudes” with a little help from Production Assistants: Maggie Maraschino, Zach Pigeon, Catherine Capozzi and co-Producer/Director, Sophia Cacciola. This song is dedicated to MAGNETIC Kickstarter supporter, James Groshon ParkerLip-sync … Read More
TEN was very fortunate to have some help during shooting with feeding our 17 cast and crew on location for eight days! on the road to the set of TEN! Snack Factory sent us huge boxes of Pretzel Crisps – … Read More
Sophia & Michael hard at work 2013 was a weird and wonderful year of many projects of the film and music variety. Here is the past: 2012 Review – 2011 Review Before we get started, we made a few year-End Lists/Summaries: http://wzlx.cbslocal.com/2013/12/30/bostonemissions-favoritesoftheyear2013/ http://trainwreckdsociety.com/2014/01/ … Read More
Michael and I are very excited to have been asked to be a participating artist in the next Liars and Believers’ show, INTERFERENCE. We’ll be creating a short film/music video for a The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library song about … Read More
Debuting over at BoingBoing today is our brand-new music video for “Episode 15: The Girl Who Was Death.” It’s the second The Prisoner recreation we’ve done (“Episode 1: Arrival” was a nearly-identical recreation of the opening sequence) – this time … Read More
MAGNETIC (2015) Teaser psychological sci-fi film produced/directed by Sophia Cacciola and Michael J. Epstein, Starring Allix Mortiscinematography by Kelly Davidson “DARK2LIGHT” by Night KissesMAGNETIC Movie Soundtrack Preview by Night Kisses LIKE MAGNETIC ON IMDB:
The very end of December saw our first four days of shooting for MAGNETIC! The main goal of this shoot was to film most of the exterior and long driving scenes. On December 28th, in one normal car, we stuffed: … Read More
MAGNETIC‘s Allix Mortis lip-syncs to Van Halen’s “Panama” This song is dedicated to MAGNETIC Kickstarter supporter Sooz! Happy Birthday Sooz! Lip-sync was shot by Kelly Davidson on the set of MAGNETIC. Find out more about MAGNETIC,
One of our TEN Kickstarter rewards was for Michael and Sophia to write a short song about you. Fred Boak was the only one to take us up on this reward, but after hearing this ode to Fred the Valet, … Read More
I moved to Boston back in 1998 and despite my current rule about refusing to participate in any activity that involves moving the lower half of my body in sync with music, I used to actually like dancing. In 1998, … Read More
Awesome artwork by Tyler Littwin Boston does Boston (Facebook) is a startup benefit series, wherein the city’s vast, diverse pool of musical talent comes together to re-imagine and re-record each other’s work for charity CDs and live events. (Read more about … Read More
cast photo by Rachel Leah Blumenthal Molly Devon, who played the real-estate investor in TEN, is on a new MTV reality series called GENERATION CRYO. The show premiered November 25 at 10/9c! Tonight, Episode 3, which features Molly, debuts! MTV has … Read More
We are so excited that USA Today’s POPCANDY blog premiered our brand-new Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling music video for the song “EPISODE 10: LIVING IN HARMONY” The entire video was shot at 5 Wits “Espionage” immersive adventure at … Read More
This will be the last live performance of Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling for ~9 months or so while we finish up the last four songs in our Prisoner epic, make as many more music videos as we … Read More
DOUBLE RELEASE PARTY RECAP! 11/15/13 at TT THE BEARS, Cambridge MA! We had the most amazing time releasing our new singles, BY HOOK OR BY CROOK and sneak-previewing our new music videos at TT the Bears last Friday! Do Not Forsake … Read More
Bring Us Your Women is now running a Kickstarter campaign to put together a film anthology and album!https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/catherinecapozzi/bring-us-your-women-a-film-anthology-album-perform?ref=category_location EVE artwork by Kristilyn – Zombie Romance We had a great time performing last Thursday at Oberon as part of Catherine Capozzi‘s … Read More
Triptych presents three performances that uniquely integrate theater, video, dance, art, and rock! NOVEMBER 14TH AT OBERON. Michael and Sophia have been working for many months with John Langton of Porcelain on a 3-part short film/set of music videos exploring … Read More
Our new double single for the songs, “Episode 10: Living in Harmony” and “Episode 15: The Girl Who Was Death” made their debut over at the Boston Herald’s GUESTLISTED today! They said, “DNFMOMD returns with a pair of singles that add … Read More
In case you missed it, the very awesome VANYALAND premiered our video/song cover of Shakespears Sister’s 1992 mega-hit “Stay” – Note: for reasons unknown, Youtube removed the original video post saying we had violated the TOS. They did not reinstate … Read More
November Wiretap Wednesday is here! We are sad to say that this will be our last Wiretap under our hosting. We’re very proud of what we’ve done with the night and have truly enjoyed hearing many inspired performances over the … Read More
Welcome to the PORNIVAL (that stands for Portable Carnival AND NOTHING ELSE). We were invited to the Wireforest for an evening of extravagance. I decided it was the perfect time to debut my Metropolis robot body: Newsflash: Sophia is a … Read More
With our Kickstarter campaign at the halfway point, we thought it was a grand time to shed a little light on our casting process for MAGNETIC and to get to know Allix Mortis a little better. We knew we didn’t … Read More
We cannot thank you all enough for believing in us and this project! We are so thrilled to have reached our initial funding goal at 2 weeks in our 4 week campaign! We’re so grateful that you all have trusted us … Read More
Rachel Leah Blumenthal self portrait Very excited to announce that Rachel Leah Blumenthal has signed on as our Production Assistant aka WRANGLER OF SHEEP for our first set of principal shooting days of MAGNETIC! . I’m pretty sure she’s in … Read More
slate from TEN Very excited to announce that Kelly Davidson has signed on as Director of Photography for our new feature film, MAGNETIC! Kelly was also our Director of Photography for our first film, TEN; and has shot two (soon to … Read More
We’ve had an amazing first day kickstarting our new feature film, MAGNETIC – thank you so much to everyone for your support of this project so far! We are beyond humbled and cannot wait to thank you all personally. As … Read More
We are extremely excited to announce that we’re in preproduction for our 2nd feature film, MAGNETIC. On December 31st, at 11:58:07 PM Coordinated Universal Time, Earth, the third planet from the star sol will have its atmosphere ripped to shreds … Read More
We’re finally issuing the 12th (and final) lip-synching video for TEN Kickstarter backer rewards. This is kind of a special one, which is what took us so long! Edrie is one of the Boston area’s most enthusiastic supporters of creative projects, … Read More
We’re super excited that Mark Phinney’s Fat (IMDB) starring Mel Rodriguez, one of the most important, bravest films in a long, long time, has received a wonderful response at its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival! Read some of Mark’s … Read More
The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library is very excited to play the 3rd Annual JP Music Festival this Saturday! Our set-time is 3PM!all the info (from the facebook event): Join us Saturday, September 7th, 2013 from 12-7 PM at Pinebank … Read More
Sophia and I have made a lot of music videos of our own and we’ve appeared in many music videos made for others. Now, however, for the first time ever, a music video we made for someone else! Endation‘s “Staab” … Read More
Hello Earth children! We Balloononians are in the final stages of completing a music-based TV show for your Earth television. In the meantime, we thought we should share some home videos we took while on an excursion in our favorite … Read More
Lucy Moran – style icon I got to star as Lucy Moran from Twin Peaks in the latest Hallelujah the Hills music video for their song, ‘Confessions of an Ex-Ghost’ and I couldn’t be more excited with how it turned … Read More