schrodinger’s bedroom

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The sad word came late yesterday evening that Dav Gerrells, who owned and operated Cafe 99 in Reidsville, North Carolina for many years, passed away after a brief illness over the weekend.  I used to eat at Cafe 99 when I still lived in Reidsville and Dav always made me feel welcome.  The man was a thoroughly great guy and he was an amazing cook.

Early in 2007 I entered a filmmaking competition for the Fox television reality series On The Lot.  Entrants had to make a short film and submit it for the opportunity to be a contestant on the show.  Friends and family encouraged me to take a swing at it.  It was a very trying and strenuous two weeks from initial concept to finished product but in the end “Schrödinger’s Bedroom” was in the can and shipped off on DVD to Hollywood.

We filmed the ...

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Over the weekend I finally, finally, found time to do an “updated” version of Schrodinger’s Bedroom. This was the short film that I made last year as an entry for the short-lived Fox “reality” show On The Lot. It had already been uploaded to YouTube, but that was the version that was submitted for the competition, and unfortunately because of the limit on length that was in the rules I didn’t have time to put proper credits in this film. That’s always bugged me. So now I get to fix this and let it be, in my mind, a true and proper film that gives a nod toward everybody who helped make it.

So without further ado, here is Schrodinger’s Bedroom starring Dawn Swartz, Chris Otto, Selassie Amana, Ed Woody, Olivia Woody, Doug Smith, Tyler Richardson, Melody Hallman Daniel, Chad Austin, Veronica Jones, and a cameo appearance ...

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I had no idea this was in today’s edition of goTriad (which will be available throughout the area for all this coming week) until Kate from the Murphy in the Morning Show on 107.5 FM called a few minutes ago to ask if I would be up for an interview tomorrow morning, so I’ll be on the air at 7:20 or so tomorrow morning talking about Schrodinger’s Bedroom.

Here’s the link to the story on goTriad.com. Sue Edelberg did a really great job with this write-up. And my friend Johnny Yow will no doubt enjoy how many times he’s mentioned in this story 😛...

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Click here to watch last night’s Monday Night Live (in Windows Media format). This was the first time that I’d co-hosted a full show and the first time that I’d ever done one with regular host Ken Echols. I had a lot of fun doing this last night. We got to show a little bit of Schrodinger’s Bedroom and the show closed out with the final moments from Forcery (including the credits with Slim Whitman singing “Una Paloma Blanca”). I also got to give a shout-out to friends in Raleigh, Waynesville, and Bellingham in Washington (so hey to Chad, Ed and Jenna). And of course no episode of Monday Night Live would be complete without a call from Jaybird in Eden. So if you want to watch your good friend Chris in action, mash down on the link above and catch the show....

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From what I’m hearing, the calls to those who made it to the second tier of the On The Lot competition have already gone out. I won’t be going any further with this season’s contest, ‘cuz The Call(tm) hasn’t come here. But it was fun to have at least tried… and to have put together a movie like this so fast.

Anyway, the News & Record, which is the big newspaper around here, ran a story about my entry Schrodinger’s Bedroom in the Rockingham section of the paper. It’s not up on their website so I transcribed it here:

A couple, a room, a hopeful director

– Chris Knight hopes his short film gets him chosen to be on a reality TV show.

BY GERALD WITT
Staff Writer

REIDSVILLE – Dead cats, quantum physics and newlyweds thread into a short film that was shot, written and directed here as ...

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