Drew Levin

I present… “𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐌𝐮𝐠” — a short film, because sometimes you have the urge to make something horizontal in a vertical world!! thanks @emilehirsch and @delving for helping me turn my relationship woes into comedy art ♥️ ☕️ Starring @emilehirsch Directed & written by muah, @greatjobnat Produced by @greatdognat and @delving DP @delving Music & sound mix @nicky_paul PD @joanna.cabalquinto G&E @dirt_mangurt G&E @patshahabian 1st AD @jrob_films 1st AC @garrett.hoffmann Underwater Op @germano.assuncao Sound - Justin Pope Glam - @mattiemariemakeup

RENT FREE will be premiering in competition at @tribeca ! From the first moments of reading the script I knew this would be special. So proud to have been a part of this hilarious, horny, and beautiful movie with an amazing group of filmmakers. @fernandofromtx thanks for trusting me with your baby and your vision. See y’all in June!

2020 brought some unexpected blessings, and one for me was my friendship with @bridget_joan . It’s her 30th today, here’s a warm welcome to her old age. Thanks for all the vibe curations, photo adventures, bops and salmon avocado feeding frenzies. I’ve never met a person more passionate and determined to stop on the side of the road to say hi to an animal - any animal, and I’m very happy to know you. HBD!

WHEN SHE CALLS by @austin_weber  is out! My mother always said, when someone asks you to go on an adventure with an inflatable dancing man, you say yes. I was lucky to have collaborators as good as these guys. Check the bio for the link to anamorphic silliness. Director: @shaviddayne DP: @delving 🤓 Producers: @xtian_vazquez  @lanceopp  @austin_weber  et moi Co-Director: @austin_weber Featuring: @tuckerflodman , @senorsales 1st AC: @sara.kinney Key Grip: @dirt_mangurt PAs: @kenzcan  @xtian_vazquez  @_scott_roberts_real_  @tuckerflodman Colorist: @sderlug Editors: @austin_weber  & @shaviddayne Set Photographer: @salim.green Type: @grahamweber

You ever realize you need to post something for your IG grId before you post the music video that just came out? No? Me neither. Great Sand Dunes on the way back from a weird Vice gig last summer in Colorado w/ @benjaminrosser on three hours of sleep to catch dawn. Very worth it.

Some more frames from @graciepotter ’s music vid “Release” that just came out, directed by the wonderful @top_salt . Mostly posting this though because it’s my birthday tomorrow and I’m terrible at Instagram and generally being a human on the Internet and I figured I’d start being better at it god I suck at posting please forgive me thanks yay birthdays!

Ten days in and it’s already been a hell of a year - but I’m excited to share something I made late in 2019 that finally came out! Here’s the music video I filmed for the talented @graciepotter ’s beautiful song, “Release.” This production did a lot with a little, from boats to doppelgängers to lighting things on fire, and I was proud to work with such a hard working and talented team. This was my second collaboration with Catherine (@top_salt ) and she did an amazing job of steering the literal and metaphorical ships. When it was decided we’d film in LA, my first call was to @brandtrentel - after years of seeing him dealing with all the bullshit the fashion world could throw at him, I figured producing a boat being lit on fire would be a cakewalk. Shoutout to my camera team, @mikenelsoncamera for flying steadi across that beach with perfect timing, @amarqz for some of the most insane sharps I’ve seen (and dealing with pushing that cart, sorry again) and @sophieeuhh for wrangling my dumb camera kit twice in one week. *link to video in bio* Full credits! DIRECTOR: @top_salt PRODUCER: @brandtrentel EPs: @brandtrentel  and @raelamarjalen STORY BY: Jessica Leonard and @top_salt VIDEO COMMISIONER: @niaandrews CINEMETOGRAPHER: 🤓 EDITOR: @dougkarr COLOR: Keith Jenson, @technicolorpost PRODUCTION MANAGER: Mike Plotz 1st AD: Abby Zahuranec STEADICAM OP: @mikenelsoncamera DRONE PILOT: Colin Lupe DRONE GIMBAL OP: David Markun 1st AC: @amarqz 2nd AC/MEDIA: @sophieeuhh CAMERA PA: Nick Yoon G&E PA: @brandonellingwood GAFFER/KEY GRIP: Walter Orsini, GRIP: Dwight Lay HMUA Artist: @katamakeup STYLIST: Heather Rest, STYLIST ASSISTANT: Pierette Abegg SHIBARI ROPE ARTIST: @lief.bound KEY PA: @bessiejohill PA/DRIVER: Case Williams ART PA + BOAT WRANGLER: @parrotpeterson PROP BOAT CONSTRUCTION: Jeff Morrell LCSB LIFEGUARD: Matthew Fischer LCSB LIFEGUARD: Eli Lapidus MDR LIFEGUARD:Stefan Konstantini CAMERA BOAT OWNER: Rick Oefinger CAMERA BOAT CAPTAIN: Jeremy Maltz SOUND DESIGN / RE-RECORDING MIXER: Elizabeth McClanahan, Heard City

I sat at his kitchen table, surrounded by hard drives, trying to keep making a living while also making sure he didn’t burn the house down. He plodded in to express his concerns about money for the fifth time that day - and I had some news for him. I told my father that I had paid off his car loan. The car he had totaled by driving it 55 miles home on a flat tire, mysteriously thinking that was a good idea, not wanting to expend one AAA service call. And then this photo happened. My purpose in writing isn’t to invoke sympathy, but rather to raise awareness for something I didn’t really understand until this year. Dementia is often portrayed in media for a joke (i.e. Fred Willard in Space Force). We seclude the demented into their own housing and population. Despite how common it is, many people don’t have direct experience until a direct relation falls victim. It’s awful to watch someone fall apart on the inside. When a person has defined themselves by the intricacies of their mind, the collapse of that house of cards is confusing to everyone - including the victim. He would still make jokes, and some were great, but he struggled to get out the word for zucchini every time. Sometimes he was in the depths of his troubles, raging about a printer he had tried to set up for 6 hours but he hadn’t plugged in. Sometimes we would sit on the kitchen floor and speak about what was in our hearts until the wee hours, his points would be shrewd and adroit, and it felt like I was talking to a complete person again. By the next morning, all the conclusions we had arrived at had been scattered to the wind. As far as I understand, Alzheimer’s is often a pointless diagnosis, because it’s expensive to confirm and completely untreatable. It’s often diagnosed through the elimination of other possible causes — or an autopsy. This will change, with research and time. However, it’s far from pointless to know someone is suffering from dementia because it can be caused by many different things and therefore may be ameliorated. The rest of this in the comments -

It’s been a month - gone in the blink of an eye while doing everything I can to not just stare at the wall. We’re doing a memorial over zoom for him next weekend, message me if you want to attend. These photos are from December 2015 - we got lunch and went for an adventure up the mountain, tromping through the snow as long as he could stand it before fleeing back to the warm car. He photographed me, I photographed him. He was full of life.

My dear dad David passed away last night, and he did it in the most remarkable way. We had been listening to jazz all day - the doctors told me hearing is the last thing to go, so I wanted to delight him however I could. It felt like it was close to time, so I told him I loved him, and then said that I’d put on Miles to play him out. So I put on ‘So What’, the song he always used to test his beloved speaker systems with. Anytime he changed anything, any cable, any component, he used it as his reference track. I’ve heard it a thousand times. I moved the laptop closer to him, stepped out to drink some water, and then sat down next to him and held his hand. Five seconds later, he took his last breath. By the end of the song he was gone. Per usual, he had a wonderfully idiosyncratic style. I’ll miss him terribly.