David Lynch’s RONNIE ROCKET — short sleeves and long sleeves — now available
Ronnie Rocket (originally spelled Ronny Rocket) is an unfinished film project written by David Lynch, who also intended to direct it. Begun after the success of his 1977 film Eraserhead, Lynch struggled to find financial backing for the project and eventually moved on to direct The Elephant Man, although he would attempt to produce it many times afterwards in the 80s and 90s, with the most recent known draft dating to 2012.
Ronnie Rocket, also subtitled The Absurd Mystery of the Strange Forces of Existence, was to feature elements which have since come to be seen as Lynch’s hallmarks, including industrial art direction, 1950s popular culture and physical deformity. The script featured a three-foot tall man with an affinity for and control over electricity. Lynch first met Michael J. Anderson when tentatively casting for this role and later worked with him in Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive.
While Lynch never ended up producing the film, many of its ideas wound up in other Lynch productions, most notably Twin Peaks and Twin Peaks: The Return, with its sideplot of Agent Dale Cooper traveling through different dimensions through electrical light sockets.
short sleeve: 2-sided screenprinted design on “smoke”-dyed 6.1 oz., pre-shrunk 100% ringspun cotton Comfort Color garments
long sleeve: 3-print hand-screened design on granite-dyed 6.1 oz., pre-shrunk 100% ringspun cotton Comfort Color garments
Edward Yang — You know who! — now available
Edward Yang, Taiwanese director of films such as Yi Yi and A Brighter Summer Day, had a huge passion for comics and animation. Yang hand-drew storyboards for all of his films, and at the time of his death in 2007 was in pre-production on The Wind, an animated feature that was to star Jackie Chan.
1-sided screenprinted design on “citrine”-dyed 6.1 oz., pre-shrunk 100% ringspun cotton Comfort Color garments
printed a bunch of these shirts for the 63rd New York Film Festival!
lifted the design from a bind-in card for Film at Lincoln Center (fka the Film Society at Lincoln Center) found in an old copy of Film Comment
these will only be for sale at the festival! pick em up at the merch booth at Alice Tully Hall or the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center so as to let everyone know your discerning yet broad-minded disposition w/r/t the seventh art
thanks to everyone at FLC who made this happen and thanks again to @photojuice for the wonderful pic
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DOGVILLE shirt — Von Trier capsule — now available
For his seventh film, Danish “bad boy” director Lars Von Trier sought to create a portrait of America in the early 20th century. The resulting 3-hour period epic was titled ‘Dogville’ and featured an ensemble cast, led by Nicole Kidman playing a woman on the run who hides out in the small mountain town of Dogville, Colorado.
Notably, the film was shot entirely on a soundstage, with an almost-complete forgoing of traditional sets and props — the town of Dogville is comprised of crude chalk outlines on the soundstage floor, with minimal set-dressing.
2-sided design in white and shiny metallic gold ink, printed on black 6.1oz Comfort Colors garments
limited to 40
“Persona Non Grata” shirt — Von Trier capsule — now available
In 2011, Danish “bad boy” director of ‘Breaking the Waves’ and ‘Dancer in the Dark’, Lars Von Trier, was at the Cannes Film Festival to premiere his new film ‘Melancholia’. At the film’s press conference, when asked about his family heritage, Von Trier gave a characteristically off-color response to the horror of his film’s stars, the press, festival organizers, and the film world in general.
Cannes’ board of directors held “an extraordinary meeting” at which Von Trier was declared “a persona non grata... with effect immediately”. The director’s comments, they said, were “unacceptable, intolerable and contrary to the ideals of humanity and generosity that preside over the very existence of the festival”.
Von Trier was back at Cannes seven years later with ‘The House That Jack Built’, but not before sporting a t-shirt emblazoned with the Cannes logo and “PERSONA NON GRATA” at the Berlin Film Festival’s premiere of ‘Nymphomaniac’ in 2014.
shiny metallic gold ink on black 6oz American Apparel 1301 garments
FOUR NIGHTS OF A DREAMER shirt — now available
original French one-sheet for Robert Bresson’s 1971 film, loosely adapted from the Dostoyevsky short story “White Nights”
limited to 30
Ghostwatch shirt
In 1992 the BBC, as a part of its Screen One anthology series of made-for-TV films, broadcast Ghostwatch, a mockumentary news investigation into haunted houses featuring real-life BBC on-air personalities. At the time, thousands of viewers tuned in thinking it was real and flooded the BBC’s phone lines with complaints and concerns.
Directed by Leslie Manning and created by Stephen Volk, who described the programme as such:
“Ghostwatch was, of course, also about television...
Ruth, the producer, and I discussed how we both felt we could no longer trust what we were seeing, what we were being shown or told by TV. The lines between the once distinct languages of factual and fictional TV were becoming dangerously blurred. Even the CNN Gulf War reports on Newsnight (with the infrared camerawork we duplicated in Ghostwatch) felt suspect, somehow unreliable. What was drama and what was not?”
Hong Sangsoo “Infinite Worlds” shirt
📸 by @photojuice
“If you believe there’s a clear reason for these two worlds to exist, once you find a clear meaning between them, then these worlds themselves disappear. Once we make clear sense out of these two worlds, they are just used up. It happens that it’s not easy to give them a clear meaning. So all the questions are kept alive if there’s an infinite possibility of worlds. It’s like a permanent reverberation.”
In 2015, Korean director Hong Sangsoo did an interview with the magazine Cinema Scope for his film Right Now, Wrong Then where he explains his thoughts behind the film’s bifurcated structure:
“In comparing these two parts, if I can call them parts, some elements can be well connected, and make the audience feel that they can explain the difference between the two in terms of morals and attitudes. But some elements are not meant to be like that, and the two worlds are meant to be quite independent. If one is able to offer a clear explanation about the relationship between the two parts, then that can be a pleasant thing. But that encloses everything…You know what I mean? This way we can proceed with some pleasure of making sense, but still feel that the two parts are quite independent. Not one moralistic message. Let me make a drawing… “
thanks to Sydney @syannamo and Henry @camachomadness for modeling
