:::SYNOPSIS::::::::::::::::::::::::
This film is the director’s reaction to the loss of a great friend of both the director and talent to heroin. The score is comprised entirely of source material from live Caniis Crux performances. This film inspired by and dedicated to Michael D. Petee.

:::FORMAT/SPECIFICS::::::::::::::::::::::::
A Top Quality Rock & Roll production produced and directed by Mike Dereniewski. Score by Frankie & The S.E.M.M. - all audio source material taken from live Caniis Crux performances.
16mm Black & White. 5:10 minutes. 24 fps. Optical Soundtrack. Completed October 2000, Detroit, Michigan.

:::CAST:::::::::::::
L. Xandria Magdalene

:::CREW::::::::::::::::::::::::
Mike Dereniewski
Kittensmack
Sara Kaye
L. Magdalene
Kid D...
Brian Pawlik
Matt Larson
Sarah Trimble

:::TRUE STORY::::::::::::::::::::::::
Get a first hand account of what it was like to work on the film from Red Sonya Productions' award winning filmmaker Sara K. CHECK IT.

:::MAKING THE FILM::::::::::::::::::::::::
First I weaseled my work into paying for the Film 1 clas

:::ABOUT THE DIRECTOR::::::::::::::::::::::::
I currently work at Wayne State University’s video production house in Detroit, Michigan. For the past eighteen(!) years I’ve been a college DJ at WHFR 89.3FM in Dearborn where I host the “Skrockin’ Yer Butow...” program. Several years ago, while working on a play, I found myself with a ton of spare time, and assembled a bunch of clippings about Patty Duke and made the first Patty Duke Fanzine (kinda as a joke but mostly out of boredom). It’s now turned into a really good excuse to ask some of my favorite bands to cover Patty Duke songs for me. That project transformed Top Quality Rock & Roll, my record label/multimedia production company, from wishful thinking into reality.

:::SCREENINGS::::::::::::::::::::::::
May 4, 2006, Cinéma Abattoir, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
October 15, 2005, Z Film Festival 5 (The Death of Z Film Fest), Chicago, Illinois
December 6, 2002, Nihilist Film Festival, Midnight Special Bookstore, Santa Monica, California
July 2, 2002, OPID BIO, Reykjavik, Iceland
November 13, 2001, Euroshorts Short Film Festival, Warszawa, Poland
March 25, 2001, The 4th annual East Lansing Film Festival, Michigan's Own Competition
February 24, 2001, the 3rd annual boston underground film festival
January 20, 2001, DFC's Student Showcase, 1515 Braodway, Detroit Rock City
December 2000, the underground film revolution, Boston, Massachusetts
July 2000, IO Coffee House, Detroit, Michigan

:::ORDER::::::::::::::::::::::::
16mm prints ($150) are available.EMAIL me.

:::BONUS::::::::::::::::::::::::
there is a silly little short I did called “Johnny” available on the MULTIMEDIA page. take a peek at it if you feel like seeing a funny little film. originally shot on 8mm, it’s only a few minutes long...

:::REVIEWS::::::::::::::::::::::::

The Loneliest Little Boy in the World, dir. Mike Dereniewski. This is another brief little film, this time a woman ó a priestess, perhaps? ó worships a giant pigís head stuck on a post. She derives ecstasy during her ritual and her intense passion causes the pigís head to burst into flames. Like Extase de chair brisee, thereís an unsettling abstract soundtrack made up of Satanic backwards chanting and various distorted grunts and yells. The message: Those that worship you the most will eventually just burn you out.

-badlit.com