alt.sex is an independent comedy feature being produced in and around Boston, Massachusetts.
Shot on Super 16mm film, it'll feature great non-union talent and be as indie as all hell.

  The starts with our hero John in a relationship that only Dr. Kevorkian could help. What started as an inter-office romance with his domineering co-worker, Irene, has now cooled to something similar to marital apathy.

  Immersed in online chat rooms, he runs afoul of a menacing computer hacker called Mongo who is out to make his life miserable, online and off. Once John finds that Mongo has hacked into and defaced his company's website, he gets his perpetually plugged-in buddy, Geoff, to help track him down.

  Unfortunately for John, Irene has a videotape fetish that ends up displaying some revealing moments of her infidelity at an after-hours party. John finds himself single, the recipient of much typical advice on where to find a new partner. After trying to make contact in nightclubs, personal ads and expensive computer dating services, our hero treks off into cyberspace in search of a new soulmate.

  He soon learns that when it comes to online encounters, what you see is not what you get. However, neither philandering co-workers, menacing car mechanics nor hidden webcams can stop his search.

  Will our hero get shit-canned from work because of a cache of pornography that ends up as his screen saver? (Of course not, this is a comedy.) Will he get sucked back into his previous relationship to endure the same ol' crap again? (Gee, that would really suck in a movie...wouldn't it?) Certainly there's someone just right for our intrepid hero in cyberspace! (What did you think? A sad ending for once? Naaaaah!)

Yup, the law of averages says that most indie films will end up in the toilet. What idiot would delude themselves into spending their own money on something that should go straight into obscurity? (well, the director/writer is one..) So stick around, you might be able to witness a spectacular crash and burn of the directors ego!

But then again...

This film is not going to end up being the same ol' crap you see at film festivals. The 3 most often abused themes for independents are:

  • My dad beat me and now I gotta deal with it
  • I think I'm gay or I gotta deal with being gay
  • A film about the film-making process itself.

This film will contain no police interrogation scenes; nobody will wave a gun around and kill somebody. No long, boring scenes where characters whine about life and make sweeping statements about the human condition. At no point the director will attempt to emulate Quentin Tarantino. This film will try not to insult your intelligence as a viewer (we may be limiting our audience with this point; but screw it, Woody Allen does it).

Check out the cast & crew link to see WHO would want to put themselves through this. The alt.sex journal link will give you some insight on WHY someone would attempt to do such a thing, tech info has details on WHAT was used to burn through the cash, publicity will give you some idea on WHERE we've generated some false hope, film clips will show you some examples on HOW we've faltered, and the indie links are places where we've probably SUCKED-UP to other websites such as this.
Big cast reading on Sunday, February 6th. Click on the icon on the right to get a bigger view.
February 4, 2000 - I typed up this website. Isn't that friggin' exciting? :-P

 

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