Split Screen

Split Screen

11 Seasons

Your wild ride through the indie film world—by filmmakers, for everyone. From 1997 to 2001, producer and author John Pierson and his band of cinephiles roved the U.S. seeking pockets of movie madness, for this irreverent sixty-episode series.

Split Screen
  • John Pierson introduces SPLIT SCREEN Season Six

    Episode 1

  • Split Screen: S6-E1 From Homicide to Ho Chi Minh

    Episode 2

    Movie Saves Town: an indie effort revitalizes Holland, MI; Doug Stone visits Tony Bui, director of THREE SEASONS, and his Vietnamese cast; Homicide is Good: the indie film landscape in Baltimore; SE7EN: suspense, murder, stuffed animals! Original air date 09/29/98

  • Split Screen: S6-E2 Billy Wilder’s Shoes

    Episode 3

    Making Films, Selling Shoes: director Steven Proto enlists the help of Billy Wilder; How’d You Do That?, on working with a deaf actress; Brian Flemming and Keythe Farley ride along with LA’s most famous nonworking actor; an encounter with Seymore Butts: Filmmaker. Original air date 10/05/98

  • Split Screen: S6-E3 Kuchar Kuts Loose

    Episode 4

    George Kuchar, beloved innovator, underground filmmaker, and San Francisco film teacher; KIDS: promiscuous stuffed animals in NYC; 15 budding auteurs in Austin produce one feature together; Indie Dogs with Marina Zenovich; Artmark—activism, film, and videotape. Original airdate 10/12/98

  • Split Screen: S6-E4 Guy Maddin Mystifies

    Episode 5

    Manitoba Tonight: Guy Maddin; How’d You Do That: Archival FX; ’MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE Meets IRONSIDE”: Muscular Dystrophy poster-girl now turned indie action flick director Jenni Gold; Tanya Hamilton looks at several decades of Jamaican film culture. Original air date 10/19/98

  • Split Screen: S6-E5 Almost Heaven, West Virginia: The Jacob Young Special

    Episode 6

    Regional filmmaker par excellence, Jacob Young, in his own backyard. Meet an Elvis-channeling schizophrenic tap dancer, a cross-planting evangelical, a cranky chemical plant owner, and a pedophile Swami. Directed by Amy Elliot: we proudly present the filmmaker who to us embodies the true spirit o...

  • Split Screen: S6-E6 Projections: Jonas Mekas

    Episode 7

    Celebrating Jonas Mekas, a true underground hero who tirelessly championed experimental filmmakers and their “essential cinema” for half a century. A man of many hats, he directed, wrote about and showcased avant garde films, eventually giving them a home at Anthology Film Archives, playing a key...