Caturday Catstravaganza!

These videos have been circulating on Facebook and on YouTube for a while now, but I've intended to post them here ever since I started working on this blog again. They're the work of Regina-based filmmaker Eric Hill, also known by the alias of Videoheadboy. A friend of mine since high school, Eric has been slowly but surely building an idiosyncratic body of work, composed mostly of quirky short films shot in his spare time, and starring some of Regina's local actors and assorted oddballs. I've had the pleasure of being in a couple of his short films, and had a hand in kickstarting his series of "Cat" films, each featuring a stilted, animatronic cat we bought for a few dollars at Value Village.  The Cat has since appeared in several of his short films, featured alongside semi-notables such as American Beauty's Wes Bentley, and Canadian indie rockers The Constantines. I've posted them below in order of their original release date. 

Enjoy. 

Cat Taxidermy

directed by Eric Hill

concept by Eric Hill and Christian Llewellyn Hardy
starring Christian Llewellyn Hardy

Caturday Night Lights

directed by Eric Hill

concept by Eric Hill, Christian Hardy, and Ben Bates

starring Christian Hardy and Ben Bates

Catstantine's Roadies

directed by Eric Hill

concept by Eric Hill

starring The Constantines

Note: The Wes Bentley video was removed from YouTube. Probably because it contained a soundclip from American Beauty, but mostly because Wes Bentley was drugged out of his gourd and wearing a green-screen cube on his head at a party (per our request). Either way, it was funny stuff. Maybe the most beautiful thing in the world. Ah well.