
Making-of documentary of Larry Lo Presti's "The Flea People." 1999 was the year Larry first brought me onto one of his movie projects. Larry knew me more... from the Gallery scene and knew I was a filmmaker and a performer, and Robert and April Anderson (the then-future stars of "American Alien") had worked previously with Jeff Cochran on "Punk James. I brought in Jeff Cochran, along with my wife, to help shoot this documentary footage of one of the first nights of production on "The Flea People. Officially in the movie, I was to play April's redneck father, hence the full beard. But tonight, I was "the guy in the suit". I always wanted to play a monster in a movie and I relished the experience of working the creature costume. As you can see, at this point, Larry is shooting on 16mm film. But after seeing this edited documentary footage, he became a convert to video, and planned to start production all over again on Hi-8. However, we lost our lead stars when Robert and April moved to Taos, New Mexico along with Jeff Cochran. The wind sorta got knocked out of the project's sails. In 2000, Larry and I would reunite on a new project, "Night of the Necroluna" and I would also be reunited with Jeff, Robert and April (This time as my girlfriend) in "American Alien", a talking-head mockumentary about the disappearance of a UFO fanatic (me). Some notes about the Flea-monster costume: Laryy built the prototype mould full size iin his usual papier mache' fashion. THEN, with a coat <b>...</b>
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