J Roland Kelly is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and singer-songwriter. In 2010 his film Sleeping with Charlie Kaufman was an official selection of the Rome International Film Festival and nominated for a Charles B. Pierce Award.
J Roland Kelly | |
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| Born | Fayetteville, Arkansas |
| Occupation(s) | Screenwriter, director, singer-songwriter[1][2] |
| Years active | 1989–present |
In 2004 he released an album of spoken word poetry entitled J Roland Kelly, Stop Your Nursing Unless You're Rendering Fun[3] followed by J Roland Kelly Taunts the Process ...into Attacking in 2008,[4] and on January 20, 2009—the last day of the Bush presidency—he released the single J Roland Kelly Marshals Against Karl Rove.[5]
In the promotional lead up to J Roland Kelly, Stop Your Nursing Unless You're Rendering Fun he released a series of short films including Music Video, Billfold, and It Just Happens that Way. This experience led to him reworking a group of short films he made in adolescence to produce Dinosaur! which screened at film festivals in the spring of 2005.[6]
In 2009 after the release of J Roland Kelly Marshals Against Karl Rove he began work on Sleeping with Charlie Kaufman[7] and in an interview with BeingCharlieKaufman.com, J Roland Kelly states that he created the film in homage to Charlie Kaufman because he was inspired by early drafts of Kaufman's screenplays that he himself had read when he first started screenwriting.[8]
In an interview with Xtranormal, J Roland Kelly describes Sleeping with Charlie Kaufman as "...basically this absurd, funny conversation between a guy and his girlfriend. He tells her he fantasizes about her twin sister, but she doesn't have a twin sister, so it's just another way of fantasizing about her… and is she offended. [It draws on] some La Nouvelle Vague & Mumblecore elements from the kind of films I was watching at the time."[9]
Sleeping with Charlie Kaufman held its premiere on June 3, 2010 at the Little Rock Film Festival.[10]
Filmography
edit- Prison Break (1989)
- A Boy Named Chad (1989)
- Music Video (2004)
- Billfold (2004)
- Just Happens that Way (2004)
- Dinosaur! (2005)[6]
- Sleeping with Charlie Kaufman (2010)[11]
Discography
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ^ J Roland Kelly at AllRovi
- ^ Screenwriter J Roland Kelly at the DMOZ Open Directory Project
- ^ a b J Roland Kelly, Stop Your Nursing Unless You're Rendering Fun at All Music Guide AllMusic Retrieved September 10, 2024.
- ^ a b "J Roland Kelly Taunts the Process ...into Attacking". Billboard.
- ^ a b J Roland Kelly Marshals Against Karl Rove at Yahoo! Music Retrieved July 24, 2011.
- ^ a b "J Roland Kelly's Sleeping with Charlie Kaufman, a Short Not to Be Missed". Osipa. December 12, 2009. Retrieved September 10, 2024.
- ^ "Sleeping with Charlie Kaufman, BSide – Festival Genius". April 23, 2010. Archived from the original on August 20, 2011. Retrieved July 24, 2011.
- ^ "(Updated) Sleeping with Charlie Kaufman". BeingCharlieKaufman.com. July 13, 2011. Retrieved September 10, 2024.
- ^ "Behind the Scenes: A Movie Maker uses Xtranormal for Film Festival Entries, Xtranormal Blog May 19, 2011". Archived from the original on July 28, 2011. Retrieved July 24, 2011.
- ^ "The Little Rock Film Festival". Arkansas Times. June 3, 2010. Retrieved September 10, 2024.
- ^ "Announcing Xtranormal Film Contest with Rotten Tomatoes". WIRED. May 22, 2011. Archived from the original on March 28, 2012. Retrieved July 24, 2011.