Shut Up, Little Man! An Audio Misadventure is a film about the audio recordings made of two “booze-swilling, homicidal room-mates” in 1980s San Francisco. I only just heard about this film and I already feel like I’ve been waiting my whole life to see it. It’s grunge! It’s punk! It’s the truth! – which really is much stranger than fiction.
In 1987 “Eddie Lee Sausage” and “Mitchell D” moved into an apartment to discover that their neighbours Raymond (a homophobe) and Peter (a queen), argued constantly, and loudly, and that the walls were paper thin. When they mustered the courage to confront Ray and Pete about the noise levels, Ray threatened to murder them. After that they got the idea to start recording the arguments and threats, should the need for some kind of criminal proof arise.
The covert recordings “…have been copied and recopied and mailed all over the world, creating international celebrities of Raymond and Peter and fans as far afield as New Zealand,” reported the San Francisco Weekly, and that was all the way back in 1995! The tapes were commercially released in Compact Disc format, and now star in the incredibly rad looking feature documentary: Shut Up, Little Man! An Audio Misadventure.
So, big thanks to the Film Festival for bringing Raymond and Peter and the coolest of the 2010/11 indies as FAR afield as New Zealand.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF0TGG6WlsY
Written and directed by Matthew Bate, starring Ivan Brunetti, Daniel Clowes and Mitch Deprey.
Had you ever heard of these wondrous characters? What upcoming documentaries are you most thrilled about seeing on the big screen?
