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Apartment Eight

Directed by Matthew Harrison

"The milk and bathtub scene is the most acute metaphor for world politics I have ever seen on film" Tom Kincaid

Kenneth Anger Award 1989 Ann Arbor Film Festival

Best Comedy 1988 New York City Downtown Film Festivale


Where were you in '87? Bob McGrath and Michael Kaniecki in Matt Harrison's Lower East Side downwardly mobile white guy tenement comedy APARTMENT EIGHT.

"In Matt Harrison's 1987 Clinton Street comedy, 'RaveUps' singer Michael Kaniecki (who also wrote the score) and theater director Bob McGrath play former roommates Todd and Martin, who in the early 1980s briefly led overlapping lives in Apt. 8. Shot in monthly installments over a one-year period, most of the scenes in APARTMENT EIGHT were done as single takes in the cramped tenement kitchen, as Todd and Martin re-enact some of the funnier episodes of their downwardly mobile, girlfriend-sharing past. Winner of multiple independent film awards, APARTMENT EIGHT has now returned to its full 33-minute length, with its infamous 'glass of milk' scene restored." Programmer Tessa H Freeland. Now available for the first time on DVD, APARTMENT EIGHT is completely digitally remastered.

promotional mailing for 1987 premiere of APARTMENT EIGHT at the R.A.P.P. Arts Center Film Crash event.

Michael Kaniecki, Bob McGrath and Matthew Harrison discuss a scene on the Clinton Street set of the original Lower East Side downwardly mobile white guy tenement comedy APARTMENT EIGHT.
33 minutes
S8mm
Color
1987

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Cast:
Michael Kaniecki as Martin
Bob McGrath as Todd
Michael Kaniecki as voice of Todd's Mom and Dad

Crew:
Directed by Matthew Harrison
Produced by Matthew Harrison
Written by Matthew Harrison, Michael Kaniecki and Bob McGrath Click here for the APARTMENT EIGHT screenplay!
Photographed by Matthew Harrison
Original music written by Michael Kaniecki
Music by Michael Kaniecki, Su Bachemin, George M, Daniel Zippi, and Tracy Wuischpard and the RSO

Synopsis:
APARTMENT EIGHT is a downwardly-mobile urban white guy comedy from New York City Film Crash director Matthew Harrison. This half-hour film bitingly chronicles lifestyles of the Lower East Side white guy in the hey day day of the 80’s. With a view from their Lower East Side tenement, two downwardly mobile white guys, Todd and Martin, bicker, commiserate, and play practical jokes on one another. Shot in Super 8mm film, APARTMENT EIGHT was filmed in twelve monthly parts over the span of one year. APARTMENT EIGHT won Best Comedy at the 1988 Downtown Film Festival NYC and the Mystic Fire Independent Film Award at the 1989 Ann Arbor 8mm Film Festival. APARTMENT EIGHT screens regularly at the Kino Eiszeit theater in Berlin.

Festivals and Awards:
Best Comedy, 1988 Downtown Film Festival
Mystic Fire Independent Film Award 1989 Ann Arbor 8mm Film Festival.