Cult-hit comedy is perfect for Valentine’s Day

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The bait: The pizza guy doesn’t just get Decide Which pizza is worth

In a time when not every midnight movie pass the political snifft test“Makes me a pizza“Earns five -star reviews from all the right customers. Filmmaker Talia Levin’s cult-hit card film has been described as a “Marxist Pizza Porn” by its mostly LA-based creative team-that in turn calls itself “an artistic collective by hot queer-dorks.”

“One of the best parts of all this recognition we have received has gathered as a large pizza group,” Levin told IndieWire, describing a lively text thread. “Make me a pizza” herd and crew’s local network stories extend from meeting on a spontaneous hike to connect through City Clown Community. “We all really like each other. So now it’s like “what can we do?” ”

Serves both anti-capitalist absurdism and pro-gender messages hot“Make me a pizza” premiere at SXSW 2024 in their Midnight Shorts program. In 2025 the upsetting and Onime’s nausea comedy is also ideal show for genre lovers on late evenings wake up and want to explore (wink) On Valentine’s Day.

“The moment he pulls out the first record no matter how many times I’ve seen it, I still Get excited, “Levin said, teasing the midpoint of his film. “There is this surprise and this feeling of satisfaction. Sometimes it is even an audible Gisp of the audience, which,” Oh my God, are they really Will show me a cock right now? ‘And then it’s not. It’s something more fun. ”

The shorts brilliant script was written by Levin (who is also the film’s director and producer) with actor Woody Coyote, who plays leading man “Pizza Guy.” Coyote seems opposite co -star Sophie Neff as “Hungry Lady”, a barely dressed embodiment of a classic porn call. The lonely housewife is looking for a rude awakening when the pizza guy habit Shop pizza for sex-and instead he delivers her a complex socio-political reason explaining why She is just not worth $ 29.99.

Shots with both 16mm Kodak movie and an 80s broadcast pipe camera to achieve its unique visual style, “Make me a pizza” follow the central non-couple as they go into another type of bodily journey. In less than 13 minutes, the first feeling of sweaty Schlock gives place for an enlightening speech and a very pro-Dairy sex scene. Then it is on a sauce and sticky religious experience, before the frame explodes to a psychedelic revelation that is almost impossible to describe – let alone destroy.

“Our film comes on Strong, but while it is extremely related and it has made it a chameleon at the festival circle, ”said producer Kara Grace Miller. “We have some prices from festivals where we were the best story, but then we were the best experimental short at the next. It has really taken a new form and met new criteria wherever it goes. ”

Filmed over just three and a half days in a mansion in Beverly Hills and then a sound scene in the valley (which “really smelled” at the end of the production, said Levin), the end result is a genre mix of the highest order. Ironically, “Make me a pizza” is Hard to put in a box and find its individual tone was a work of love for Levin and editor Lynn Hong. The friends studied hours of archive films to mimic the stimulation of old school pornos and featured endlessly to get the Ooey-Gooey atmosphere just right.

“It was really fun to edit in a language other than me or really any Am used to, ”Hong explained. “I edited it as a straight comedy at first, but it just wasn’t geld. It was a challenge that balanced the gender and humor with this upbringing monologue about all the work required for a pizza to be done. Returning all the installations is when clicked. We did not lean hard enough in what we knew We wanted. “

Listening to the three creativity digs in making “makes me a pizza”, hard work rings. Commanding the characteristics of retro adult films with pops of soap opera theatrical and new age act (think Jimi Hendrix’s “Rainbow Bridge” with … Pepperoni?) Has the self-proclaimed pizza group made a card that is strange, singular and worth romanticizing in the season Spirit. From indieview after dark to you please enjoy this crispy, sloppy, crunchy, melt, puzzling, fake and definitely not Vegan piece of bit size-or your money back, guaranteed.

“Make me a pizza ”is free at Vimeo as a premiere for staff.

Bettet: You can’t put hot cheese on real people

When passionate Parmesan-spinning nudity reveals an alternative spiritual kingdom for Pizza Guy and Hungry Lady, meat lovers are in the middle of a scary exchange. With proper intimacy coordination in place and false cheese was replaced for the real thing (“you can’t put hot melted cheese on real people,” Per Levin) the actors had nothing to fear but the scene is scary.

“Will you leave your meat? “ Booming a floating creature, covered with meat and cheese. In response, the delivery guy and his non-paying customer features are BDSM wheels over his vulnerable human skin like Mini Pizza Futters. General and shakes, they not only stare down at the core of mass -produced Italian cuisine. They stare into all the subcits of all Society.

“I just think about that line,” how can I ever Was worth more than pizza? “Hong said. “It’s really the heart of the movie. Living through the final stage is a lot dark. You feel that you are worth less than a material thing. But art and society Can exceed that reality. “

“There will always be people who watch this movie and think it’s a” stupid pizza sex movie “and nothing else,” Miller said. “But there is also always our The audience, and they understand what we say during everything. We make movies for these people. ”

Since debuting last spring, “Make me a pizza” has been shown at over 40 film festivals and found a niche-men-fhervent fanbase. Through travel, its team has also gained an important insight into “midnight” as an important and constantly developing film label. Although Levin does not classify her card as “horror” in itselfThe filmmaker and her producer have still taken it to many horror -specific events and found a “welcoming” audience.

“At first we would tell the programmers who were enough to us: ‘We are not traditional horror at allSaid Levin. “But they really didn’t care.” She continued, “For me, intimacy and sex in stories are much like fear. It’s just another way to get a physical reaction. ”

Susking out that smart artistry and deeper importance in the midst of all pizza pizzazz is what ultimately drives “Make me a pizza” fandom, Miller said. From Chattanooga to Montreal, the self-proclaimed Pizza group has had several pizza parties in honor, won a number of well-deserved prizes (including one who praises American socialist Eugene V. DebS) and even witnessed a lot of guy Cosplay. It is a rare sign of devotion in the short film community but is suitable for this strange romantic fever dream.

“Are we still pizza?“Hungry Lady Coos at the end of the end in a sudden grounded moment of pillowdeprat. Coming down from everything you can eat orgasm, she and Pizza Guy find comfort in each other in the middle of the messy sheets. (Funny fact: The bulk-purchased tomato sauce that surrounds them is real!) The scene seems ripped from the middle of “1984” if George Orwell had known the convenience of Domino’s and it suggests the very feeling of friendship that brought the artists behind it together.

“The darker the world becomes, it is getting harder and harder to ask people to work with passion projects,” Levin said. “With this, it felt like everyone involved in it and everyone who saw it, for whatever reason, they needed ‘Marxist Pizza Porno’ too.”

The pizza group is developing two more projects, including a function length expansion of “Make me a pizza” universal and “A Post Climate Catastrophe sci -fi” film that centers on “sex workers and commodied human emotions.” Both continue the team’s “love for sleaze, chaos and goo,” they said.

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