Made in Texas: Tribute to Austin Film Society 2018 / Kid-Thing / USA 2012
Brothers David and Nathan Zellner began making shorts together in the 1990s, and their latest film Damsel competed at Berlin. In Kid-Thing, a deviant 10-year-old tomboy spends her days engaging in fully destructive behavior until she discovers an old woman stuck at the bottom of a well. The movie was described in Screen Daily as “backwoods weirdness with a pop-art sensibility.”
Brothers David and Nathan Zellner began making short films together in the 1990s as David was attending film school at the University of Texas. Their absurdist, hilarious, and yet deeply resonant short films, often funded by Austin Film Society grants, became known on the festival circuit. The brothers then moved onto features and have released four to date, the first two of which were low-budget efforts involving many Austin-based collaborators. In Kid-Thing a deviant ten-year-old tomboy spends her days engaging in fully destructive behavior until she discovers an old woman stuck at the bottom of a well. It was described in Screen Daily as “backwoods weirdness with a pop-art sensibility.”
Holly Herrick
83 min / Color, DCP
Director David Zellner
/ Screenplay David Zellner
/ Dir. of Photography Nathan Zellner
/ Music The Octopus Project
/ Editor Melba Jodorowsky
/ Producer Nathan Zellner
/ Production Zellner Bros.
/ Cast Sydney Aguirre, Nathan Zellner, David Zellner
/ Contact Zellner Bros.
David Zellner (b. 1974, Greely, Colorado, USA). Filmography: Plastic Utopia (1997), Frontier (2001), Goliath (2008), Kid-Thing (2012), Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014), Damsel (2018)
Zellner Bros.
PO BOX 49554, 78765, Austin, TX
United States of America
E-mail: [email protected]
David Zellner
Film Director, Production Company
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