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Pixelmander presents Saberfrog
(2012, 91 min.) Written & Directed by Curt Markham
Saberfrog is a feature-length, guerrilla-style road movie about an aging slacker named Josh. After his job disappears out from under him and his life goes into a tailspin, Josh begins hearing voices that send him on a quest to find old friends. Along the way, Josh will make unexpected discoveries about himself, his friends, and their shared past. His obsession with a series of old sci-fi novels may hold the key to his salvation and sanity.
A narrative satire of academia, grown-up values, underground culture, and aging Generation-Xers, Saberfrog was filmed in Rochester and Buffalo, but is set in several different locations in the Northeast, from Connecticut to Canada. Markham is re-enacting the main character's road trip by going to each of the cities depicted in the film and holding screenings and Q&A sessions to discuss the film's themes and how the film was made. Buffalo is the penultimate stop on this tour.
Curt Markham has written and directed shorts and features that have played at the Rochester International Film Festival, the Buffalo Niagara Film Festival, the Buffalo International Film Festival, and the Liberty Film Festival in Hollywood. He has written industrial films for Eastman Kodak and was an in-house videographer and usability engineer at Xerox Corporation. He has been part of the TV production crew for Rochester's PBS station WXXI-TV, where he served as segment producer and weekend director. He was a crew member on the Ken Burns film Not For Ourselves Alone and an on-screen extra in the recent Troma film Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead. He co-starred in the web series The Whitemeats and wrote and acted in the award-winning horror comedy short Enter the Dagon, which has screened at NecroComicon and the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. Most recently, he has been a co-producer on Adrian Esposito's forthcoming film Bury My Heart with Tonawanda.
