When the film The Aristocrats came out in 2005, the production company sponsored a contest in which people were to submit video recording of their own telling of The Aristocrats, the now-famous joke whose punchline never changed and which got…
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The short narrative screenplay was inspired by a chapter on homelessness in Daniel Quinn’s Beyond Civilization: Humanity’s Next Great Adventure, listed in the Potluck library under ecology, anthropology and evolution. This piece appeared in the first and only issue of…
The Unsustainability and Origins of Socioeconomic Increase
This paper was written as a masters thesis for the City University of New York Graduate Center’s Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program. It describes the unsustainable nature of our civilization and suggests ways to achieve sustainability. It won…
The Unexplainable Bonefish
This was a proposed television series in which host Dr. Wiley Bonefish and a crew of puppet lab assistants would humorously help kids explore paranormal science using the scientific method. Read the The Unexplainable Bonefish – Series Proposal .pdf. ©…
Deadline
This original screenplay has a serial killer giving clues to a novice newspaper reporter, and includes narrative and thematic twists. It convinced an agent at Susan Smith & Associates in Beverly Hills, CA, to take the authors on as full…
Citizen Arcane
This screenplay, originally titled The Lion’s Share, was first written in 1995, then revised in 1996 and again in 2002, when its title changed. It is based on the true story of Sam Byck, who committed suicide during a botched…
Seriously Gratuitous: The Making of Gratuitous Violence
This documentary short motion picture is a behind the scenes look at the making of Gratuitous Violence. It was shot on a VHS camcorder and edited with the camcorder and VHS VCR. True to its name, it is notable for…
Gratuitous Violence
This narrative short motion picture was produced for a course in filmmaking with filmmaker Marilyn Rivchin at Cornell University during Mark’s undergraduate studies. A spoof of Hollywood spy movies, the story follows an unlucky average Joe into whose hands accidentally…
Kornell Kinema
This documentary motion picture short was produced for a course in filmmaking with filmmaker Marilyn Rivchin at Cornell University during Mark””s undergraduate studies. A study in contrast, the piece plays with filming techniques to explore the Cornell University campus through…
Suicide PSA
This narrative short motion picture was produced for a course in filmmaking with filmmaker Marilyn Rivchin at Cornell University during Mark’s undergraduate studies. A fake public service annoncement, it comments satirically on the problem of overpopulation, a subject Mark would…