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THE FILM
LOVE, FIGHT, LOVE
Love and Spurs is your typical anti-romantic romantic dramedy, centered on immature yet good-hearted Zach and hard to reach Kate, who move in together three weeks after meeting, then spend the next several weeks trying to figure out why.
It seems plotless to the naked eye; but it is not. To paraphrase Godard, it’s love, fight, love deeper, fight deeper. Zach and Kate are like magnets at the edges of a universe. They keep recreating the Big Bang, each argument a little deeper, each one releasing a more potent and volatile universe.
The first of these explosions happens when Zach and Kate invite their upstairs neighbor for dinner, meaning to confront him about why he only plays guitar when they’re having sex. The second explosion occurs after Zach’s vapid attempt to express himself at an open mike, leading to a slight knife fight and the Dance of the Blue Fish. The Biggest Bang is the final dinner with Zach, Kate, his mother, her father, their best friends and the neighbor upstairs. There’s at least one marriage proposal, a faux-stigmata, masturbation and a 9-11 truth cheesecake fight.
Interspersed throughout are scenes between Zach and Kate’s Higher Selves, held in one of those alternate dimensions with better healthcare and less traffic. They’re surrounded by rotating and oscillating Allen wrenches corresponding to the soundtrack of the film. The Higher Selves feed and analyze their lower dimensional counterparts.
As the film progresses, their lower and higher selves begin to converge.
VIDEOS
Love & Spurs:
Hazy Romantic Overlap Blues
Love & Spurs:
The Pitch
Love & Spurs:
Love Goes Bump in the Night
Love & Spurs:
Meghan’s Tune
ABOUT THE CREATORS
LEE BARTON
WRITER, PRODUCER
Lee Barton is the CEO of Calendrome Productions with several projects being born, including Love and Spurs.
Lee Barton is a writer, SAG actor, director and performer based in Thousand Oaks, CA. He spent eleven years in New York City, creating and performing several solo pieces for various reputable venues including Dixon Place and TerraNova Solo Arts festival.
He continued his solo work in Los Angeles at Skylight Theater in Los Angeles building his new one-person show The Madness and Ease of Entering the Electric Amoeba. As a playwright, he wrote and directed his play Disengaged for the San Francisco Fringe festival, receiving a sold-out award. He is also the CEO of Calendrome Productions, with several of his scripts in various stages of development, including his experimental play-film Whorapy and his film Love and Spurs. Point of Venus is his first novel.
RAY ELLINGSEN
PRODUCER
Ray Ellingsen began his film career in 1987 as a writer. He has since gone on to pursue numerous aspects of filmmaking, from directing and producing, to supervising post production of feature films, documentaries, and commercials. In 1999, Ellingsen helped form the motion picture entertainment company, Ugly Old Bird Productions, which produced a number of film and video projects during its five years of doing business.
Ellingsen moved to Arizona in 2005 to manage the largest motion picture film studio in the state of Arizona, Hollywood-Phoenix Film Studios. Within a year, Ellingsen brought in three feature films, numerous commercials, as well as a television series for the studio to produce. Ellingsen left the studio and moved back to Los Angeles to further his filmmaking career.
To date, Ellingsen has written and directed two documentaries and a feature film, along with a multitude of commercial, instructional and industrial projects. He has also produced nine feature films and over 30 video and commercial projects, with two feature films currently in development.
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