A visual mood piece we put together to help an Indiegogo campaign for a new theatre company in Los Angeles by the name of Uranium Madhouse.

Uranium Madhouse is a new Los Angeles-based theater cabal that produces classic and contemporary works that manifest the anarchic, rowdy core of human consciousness and social organization. Helmed by Andrew Utter, Uranium Madhouse induces theatrical nuclear explosions that carry our audiences into a bracing and vital confrontation with the now of our individual and collective lives.

We are currently engaged in fundraising for our first season. With your help, our first season’s inaugural production will be Rick Burkhardt’s Conversation Storm. The play, a giddy shotgun marriage of Chekhov and Brecht, reunites three friends in a quiet café after a 20-year separation. The friends quickly resume their custom of parry and riposte in an examination of the question of torture. As they talk, an intricate game evolves, entailing time loops and role-playing. They imagine the unimaginable, save Manhattan, fail Manhattan, conjure atrocities, salvage humanity and try to get a glass of water from an inattentive waiter, all while attempting to answer the question, "Are people fungible?"

Named Best New Play at the 2007 San Francisco Fringe Festival, Conversation Storm jolts audiences from detached definitions of officially sanctioned interrogation techniques and confronts us with the real world consequences of our choices.

Video Crew
DIRS: Eric Ulbrich / Andrew Utter
DOP: Eric Ulbrich

Special thanks to Digital Film Studios, for without them none of this would be possible.

For More Information go to uraniummadhouse.org/