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Peterson's Restaurant
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"Peterson's Restaurant": From 1994 to 1995 I lived in rural Ontario in a place called the "Funny Farm". In January, 1995, I gave my 1st 2 presentations in Pittsburgh at the invitation of Orgone Cinema. Not long thereafter, the Orgone folks (Michael Johnsen, Greg Pierce, Alisa Dix) & a friend (Sharyn Lee Frederick) came to visit me at the Funny Farm, probably for a weekend. I was extremely impoverished at the time, hypothetically living off of the sale of my part of a business I'd started but my former partners didn't seem to living up to our agreement. As such, I had $20 Canadian (about $12 US) to live off of - & I was going to entertain 4 visitors? Story of my life. I recruited Orgone into making "Peterson's Restaurant" with me. It's a testimonial to how nice the people were around there that we went to 5 restaurants in the area (where I wasn't known because I couldn't ordinarily afford to eat in them) & told them about the movie, explained that we weren't actually going to buy anything (except at the last one), & asked if they minded if we shot the movie there & used the actual wait-staff as actors. THEY ACTUALLY COOPERATED. Amazing. The $20 bill that appears in the scenes was my…
Directors & creators
tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE + Orgone Cinema
Subjects
James Peterson, Dreams of Chaos Visions of Order, Peterson's Restaurant, Orgone Cinema, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, absurdism, analysis, false conclusions, low budget
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