Anti-wave

This week, Robert descends into cinematic anxiety and biblical chaos, while Ira spends the entire time asking the perfectly reasonable question: “Why doesn’t anyone just leave?” Join Robert and Ira as they discuss MOTHER! and share their favorite top 5 ‘worth a 2nd watch’ movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a woman in a house with your husband who is a poet with writer’s block and is distant, and then a visitor and his wife show up and you become more and more frustrated with these uninvited guests, and when the couple accidentally shatters a crystal object you tell them to leave and then things go bonkers and chaotic while other people arrive and invade your home, and you’re pregnant and your brooding old man is finally happy and hordes of people show up at your home and you give birth to a baby boy and you don’t want your hubby to hold the kid and he reaches into your chest and pulls out your heart and we’re talking some heavy religious symbolism here, then this podcast is for you!

This week, Robert breaks down the art of keeping a film alive through sheer willpower, while Ira admits producing sounds suspiciously like being blamed for everything. Join Robert and Ira as we discuss the role of producer on micro budget films, focusing on our upcoming feature, PROWLER. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a film producer, which involves feeding the cast and crew and running around town to get camera gear and batteries and lots of props, including combination locks, a porn collection, tennis shoes, and fake scars and guns, and keeping security at a distance and being a sounding board for the director and scouting the subways and driving to the desert to record gunshots and shattering my car window and stomping barefoot in a pool of blood under a freeway tunnel for a scene that wasn’t used, then this podcast is for you!

This week, Robert dives into the dark arts of cinematography, Ira claims he invented the Dutch angle by accident, and Trevor Davis patiently explains how he saved Prowler from looking like security-cam footage. Join Robert and Ira as we discuss the role of the Director of Photography with our special guest TREVOR DAVIS, who was the DP extraordinaire on our upcoming feature, PROWLER. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered who is responsible for the overall “look” of a film and what a Director of Photography does to achieve that - in particular on our film, which was beautifully shot entirely at night - then this podcast is for you!

This week, Robert unravels spirals of obsession like a man who’s seen too much, while Ira tries to remember how to add without using his phone. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss Pi and share their top 5 micro-budget movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a compulsive Jew and you’re obsessed with patterns and mathematics and nature and a cute Latina neighbor tries to be your friend and you befriend an Hasidic Jew who talks about the Talmud and you see how everything in the world even the stock market is in the form of a Golden Ratio, Golden Triangle, Golden Rectangle and ultimately a Golden Spiral, and another Jew tries to talk you out of what you’re doing, and a mysterious woman gives you a chip for your computer, but you trip out on drugs and try to pull a chip out of your head and you collapse and your cute Latina neighbor comes to your aid and you hit your head and you watch a bug and you go back to the old Jew and confront him, and that mysterious woman and her henchmen chase you and want what’s in your head, and the Hasidic Jew saves you and wants what’s in your head, and a group of orthodox rabbis want the number in your head, and the old Jew has a stroke and you smash your computer and burn a bunch of numbers and take a drill to your head, then this podcast is for you!

This week, Robert gets lost in a spiral of violence and moral decay, while Ira just wants to know if “stealing hearts” counts as a felony. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss CAUGHT STEALING and share their top 5 ‘no way out’ movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to have a hot girlfriend and you have hot sex with her and you’re an alcoholic, but when you agree to take care of your neighbor’s cat, a couple of bald thugs beat the shit out of you, and the detective has an attitude and your girlfriend is killed and someone put a key inside fake dog shit and these two Sephardic Jews come after you and they kill the detective and you and the cat end up on a tropical island, then this podcast is for you!

This week, Robert turns chaos into cinema while Ira reminds everyone that sometimes failure is just another word for “first draft.” Join Robert and Ira as they discuss the element of adapting and how it applies to low-budget filmmaking, including their own film PROWLER.  Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered about the importance of adapting in filmmaking and know when to be tenacious and not let go, or know how to make something work when you need to think on your feet, or know when to really adapt by tossing out your original idea and modify what you had in mind and instead go with your Plan B, then maybe - just maybe - this process will make your film even better by being more organic and raw and honest, then this podcast is for you!

This week, Robert sharpens his pencil and stabs at story structure while Ira insists spellcheck counts as screenwriting. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss the art of screenwriting and how it applies to their own film, PROWLER.  Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to write, toss out, revise, rewrite, revamp, rework and toss out and start again, then this episode is for you.

This week, Robert praises the questionable glue choices that held Prowler’s world together, while Ira admits the only art department he’s ever run involved finger paints. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss the art department and production design process of their own film, PROWLER. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to sweat over every nail, prop, and paint color and not get ‘screwed’ in the process, then this episode is for you.

This week, Robert pulls back the curtain on the blood, sweat, and screaming that went into finishing PROWLER, while Ira mostly just complains about how loud everything is. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss the post-production audio process of their own film and share war stories from the sound trenches. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a… wait, fuck that… instead for this episode, the boys have retooled Anti-wave and decided to scrap their traditional format and change it up and talk about what they know best, their upcoming movie, as they focus primarily on sound. So if you want to know about the workings of foley and ADR and how it applies to PROWLER, then this podcast is for you!

This week, Robert dives into a flood of biblical fever dreams, stone angels, and Russell Crowe’s thousand-yard stare, while Ira tries to figure out why no one brought a second unicorn. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss NOAH and share their top 5 boat movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a dude in some barren land with a hot wife and family and with these ugly ass monsters, and God asks you to build an ark and water spurts out of the ground and travels all over the land and trees and springing up all over the place which gives you the wood to start building an ark but it turns out the ugly ass monsters aren’t evil, they’re just pissed and they help with the construction of the ark and first the birds show up and then the snakes, and then a band of no-goodniks get in the way and there’s a big brouhaha and the ugly ass monsters defend you, but then the other tribe gets super aggressive and goes for the ark with a vengeance and it’s a huge battle royale, and the rains come and it’s a big ass storm, but then your son is pissed at you because you allowed his girlfriend to die, so your son helps get the bad dude on your ark and then your son gets his girlfriend pregnant and now you’re majorly pissed want to kill the baby and then your son is asked to kill you and he sets you up and the girl gives birth to twins and a humongous fight ensues and you lie and tell your wife it’s a boy and then the storm stops and all is right with the world, then this podcast is for you!