Press

"One of the 10 Most Stunning Independent Movies at Sundance" -Huffington Post

"Among the best, the strangest, and the most entertaining films at SXSW"-TIME Magazine

"Incomparable to anything you’ve ever seen" -Film School Rejects

"Mind- and style-bending… uses the possibility of the singularity in our near future as a springboard to deliver one of the most visually assaultive, mildly terrifying and eerily humorous shorts I’ve seen in some time." -Filmmaker Magazine

"Unforgettable" -Beached Miami

“Awesome” -4 Star Film Threat Review

“‘comedic satirical sci-fi pop-musical,’” perhaps the only compound-genre name apt to label a film based largely on transhumanist theory….a hobnob between the New Aesthetic movement and an inimitable hyperreal gusto, pilfering imagery from the Internet and the IRL world… datamoshing cultural memes and readying them for a full cognitive digestive cycle, often born from an angst that feels suburban in nature.” -Miami Rail

”#PostModem is uncomfortable because the film swims in what we try to avoid. It turns the polyglottic yawp of the Youtube content/advertising blend into a bizarre, death-haunted anti-poetry. And for this reason, this film is worth the discomfort. It masters the superficial stylings of the YouTube video to discuss the spiritual and psychological ramifications of lives lived in the beige.” -The Hygenic

Screenings

• Sundance Film Festival, 2013 (Finalist, Short Film Jury Prize)
• Rotterdam Film Festival, 2014
• New York Film Festival, 2013
• SXSW Film Festival, 2013
• Sundance Next Weekend, 2013
• Maryland Film Festival, 2013
• Carte Blanche 25 Years of Filmmaker Magazine Retrospective, MoMA NY 2013
• New Zealand Film Festival, 2013
• Glasgow Film Festival, 2014
• New Orleans Film Festival, 2013
• AFI Film Festival, 2013
• Winterthur Film Festival, 2013
• Sydney Underground Film Festival, 2013
• Eastern Oregon Film Festival, 2013
• Atlanta Film Festival, 2013
• Dallas Film Festival, 2013
• Boston Underground Film Festival, 2013
• Chicago International Music and Movie Festival, 2013
• Silo Sessions Berlin 2013
• Flatpack Film Festival, 2013
• DeadCenter Film Festival, 2013
• Northside Film Festival, 2013
• Provincetown Film Festival, 2013
• La Di Da Film Festival, 2013
• Citizen Jane Film Festival, 2013
• Nevada City Film Festival, 2013
• Minneapolis Underground Film Festival, 2013
• Tacoma Film Festival, 2013
• Imagine Science Film Festival NYC, 2013
• Rooftop Film Screening Series, 2013
• Key West Film Festival, 2013
• Imagine Science Kaluga, Russia, 2013
• SF Indiefest, 2013
• Loft Film Festival, 2013
• Outlier Film Festival, 2013
• Imagine Amsterdam Film Festival, 2013
• CMW Film Festival, 2014

Special Projects

• 1-855-9VORTEX
• Full TV Commercial
• Sleepsite.net
• BuyVortexNow.com
• MegaMegaUpload.net
• IRL Installation

Full Credits

Borscht Corp presents

#PostModem

a film by Mayer\Leyva

writer/director/designer: Jillian Mayer writer/director/editor: Lucas Leyva

director of photography: Daniel Fernandez

producer: Jonathan David Kane, Arly Montes executive producer: Dennis Scholl associate producer: Nick Ducassi

cast: Jillian Mayer, Kayla de la Cerda, Sidney Greenberg, Amy Seimetz, Arly Montes, Jesse Miller, Shivers TheDog

kids: Emerson Old, Mason Galinis, Ezekiel Paul, Mikael Paul, Lindsey Santamaria, Isabella Horvath, Connor Keenan

avatars: Brandon Smith

special effects: Dan Frantz

wardrobe: Wildchild World

makeup: Jasmin Morris

audio: Mike Harvey

gaffer: Jose Fernandez

camera assistant: Carlos Gonzalez

sound design: Seripidesound, Diego Meza-Valdes, Cory Czajkowski

music: Jillian Mayer, Michael-John Hancock, Jonathan Snipes

production support: Brentlie Samuels, Rocio Guevara, Alan Grover,

special thanks: Alberto Ibarguen, Dennis Scholl, Midtown Video, Mar Media, Film Trade, Young at Art Museum, Andres Meza-Valdes, Pedro Urbina, Mindy M. Shrago, Zach Spechler, Honor Roll Records, Nick Scapa, David Castillo Gallery, Francesca Leyva

commissioned by Borscht Corp.

2013 Miami, FL, USA

Made possible by the generous support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

About the Filmmakers

Mayer\Leyva is performance artist Jillian Mayer and retired playwright Lucas Leyva. Their collaborations include short films, art installations, music videos, experimental theater, and web projects.

Their last two short films (Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke; #PostModem) premiered at Sundance and went on to play AFI, Milan, New York, Los Angeles, Winterthur, New Zealand and festivals all over the world. In 2012 four separate Mayer\Leyva projects were screened at SXSW and in 2013 they returned with another.

Named to Filmmaker Magazine’s "25 New Faces of Independent Film” list, their projects have also screened at museums worldwide including MoMA, Guggenheim Museums, New Orleans Contemporary and the permanent collection of the Miami Art Museum. This year they were selected for the New Frontier Story Lab Fellowship at the Sundance Institute.

Their music videos have been featured by Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Vice, Stereogum, and NME and have been named to various year-end Top10 video lists, including IFC.

They have made three viral videos, including I Am Your Grandma, which became an unlikely sensation that has been spoofed on various TV shows and was featured on the cover of Art Papers Magazine, and the controversial Jacuzzi Boys: Glazin’ which became infamous after getting over 600,000 views in 48 hours before being banned from YouTube permanently and becoming the subject of a SXSW Panel.

They have been awarded grants from the Cintas Foundation Fellowship for Cuban-American Artists, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Elsewhere Museum/ National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Harpo Foundation, the Zentrum Paul Klee Museum Fellowship (Switzerland), and the South Florida Cultural Consortium’s Visual and Media Artists Fellowship.

Together they help run the Borscht Corporation and the Borscht Film Festival in Miami, where they work and live with Shivers, their wise and benevolent miniature chihuahua.

website: mayerleyva.com