Overview
In this first-of-its-kind crossover comedy, director Ben Popik brings together five comedy writers, and surprises them with a challenge: to each write fifteen pages of a movie, having read only the previous five pages of the script. They agree with one stipulation: if they write the movie, he has to make it.
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Splitsider's first digital download, The Exquisite Corpse Project, is, I'll admit, a little hard to explain. Here's the premise, derived from the exquisite corpse party game: five writers each wrote 15 pages of a movie, having only seen the previous five pages of the script. The resulting film is a mix of that narrative with documentary footage about the making of the film and behind the scenes dynamics of the writers, all former members of the sketch group Olde English. The relationships of the group are explained more thoroughly in the film, but here's the short version: Ben Popik started the group while a student at Bard College. Members came and went,…
