Wholphin

Meetings with one’s boss too often go this way.

Written and Directed by Peter Craig

12:43 minutes

Heading to the Wholphin screening in NYC on Monday, hosted by the incredibly cool kids at Rooftop Films, my cab passed the Greenwich Village theatre. The Greenwich is a great old movie house, but was sitting dark and empty at the time. Meanwhile, a few blocks away, hundreds of New Yorkers were packing into an empty warehouse in the Chelsea Market, which is basically a fancy mall, to sit on folding chairs and watch a bunch of short films they knew nothing about. Theaters have long maintained that audiences won’t come out for shorts, especially on blistering cold winter nights, and as usual, the industry is utterly wrong. I mentioned the absurdity of it to Rooftop’s Dan Nuxoll. “The free beer helps,” he said, splashing ice water on my revolution. But whatever, if this picture isn’t a sign of an industry in transition I don’t know what is.

New Yorkers: On Monday, December 8, at 7 p.m., Rooftop Films will host a free Wholphin screening, indoors, at Chelsea Market. There will be free beer, and editor Brent Hoff will be in attendance to present a selection of shorts from Wholphin No. 7 and the Best of Wholphin Vol. 1. Details and directions can be found here.

Wholphin in Chelsea Market

Presented by Rooftop Films and Shooting People

75 Ninth Ave. New York, NY

Monday, Dec 8, 7PM

FREE!