Dir: Matthew Bate
Aust, USA / 2011 / 85 mins
Print Source: Madman Entertainment
Web: www.shutuplittlemanfilm.com/
It’s San Francisco 1987 and Eddie and Mitch, straight out of university, move to the city. Living in an apartment with paper thin walls the two friends are shocked to hear their neighbours endlessly arguing.
But these are no ordinary arguments; Peter Haskett is a flamboyant gay man while his room-mate is homophobe Raymond Huffman, and their verbal battles and insane tirades beggar belief. Eddie and Mitch start to record each and every fight on cassette, sharing the tapes between friends, who circulate them to their friends. Now, a few comic books, CDS and a stage play later, Peter and Ray are an underground legend.
Shut Up Little Man tells the story of these recordings, the culture they came from, and the viral sensation they became. It revisits the cheap apartment and examines the phenomena of the recordings, while fans - including comic book artists Daniel Ghost World Clowes and Ivan Scizo Brunetti - talk about listening to the tapes and the effect the recordings had on them.
Screens with: So Long Kodachrome
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