“LAST MAN OF IDAHO” TO RECEIVE WORLD PREMIERE
The world premiere of “Last Man of Idaho,” a film by Ascot J. Smith, is at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 11, at Kurruption, 1717 W. Ninth St., Kansas City.
The event includes a silent auction of art from the film, merchandise from B-Bop Comics and a multitude of potato-themed appetizers. Tickets cost $5 at the door. The event is for ages 21 and over.
“Last Man of Idaho” is grandiose and absurd. Writer, director and star Ascot J. Smith finds a talking potato from the future. The two travel through time to re-imagine the artist’s life. Highlights include robbery and cryogenic slumber.
The limits of choice and human beings’ navigation toward the inevitable end are interpreted by Smith and his fantastic vegetable cohort. The result simultaneously embraces and mocks cinematic seriousness.
Smith’s film consists entirely of digital stills and includes some of Kansas City’s brightest young talents, including photographer Robert Heishman, who collaborated with Merce Cunningham and Iceland’s Sigur Ros.
The film is narrated by Albert Burns, whose credits include Robert Altman’s “Kansas City.”
Smith is a Kansas City filmmaker, multimedia artist, writer and blogger originally from Moscow, Idaho. His work reflects an interest in the banal, the mundane and the pedestrian, contrasted with the hyper-sensational and over-stimulated pop culture that unifies this generation.
Smith has received awards from the Kansas City Filmmaker’s Jubilee and has been featured in the traveling multi-media exhibition, Scope, exhibited from London to Los Angeles. His first gallery solo show “Bloodsport Remix” (2007) was a multi-screen re-editing of the 1988 martial arts classic, “Bloodsport”, and was lauded by The Kansas City Star as a “comic, postmodernist commentary on Hollywood film images and violence in sports.” Smith is also a contributor to Review magazine and has recently been commissioned for the Art in the Loop: ARTWALL.
For more information, call 816-729-7949 or email aj@ascotjsmith.com.
