Boutique distribution company Antenna Releasing is moving into original films in a big way. The company has just announced their first ever original production: Organonym!, a new horror film from director Graham Skipper, and FANGORIA has all the details for you.
Organonym! is part surrealist horror-comedy, part artistic reckoning, following a filmmaker grappling with his work. That sounds totally normal — until you add in mysterious physical transmutations and a reality that’s becoming increasingly unstable. In addition to directing, Skipper stars in the film alongside Jeremy Gardner (After Midnight, The Leech, The Battery), Kelsey Pribilski (Man Finds Tape, American Dollhouse), and John Gholson (Man Finds Tape, Fuck My Son!)
“This film was borne of a time of intense introspection for me as a person and an artist, and inspired by visionaries like Shinya Tsukamoto, John Waters, Seijun Suzuki, and Stuart Gordon, all fearless gonzo auteurs whose art screams unapologetically while also being undeniably fun,” says Skipper. “It’s only fitting that a filmmaker-forward collective like Antenna Releasing would help me bring this beautiful chaos to life.”
Satanic Panic director Chelsea Stardust serves as producer, with Ken Whiting as director of photography and Van Hughes as composer, continuing their work with Skipper, for which Organonym! Serves as his third film after Sequence Break and The Lonely Man with the Ghost Machine. Organonym! Wrapped filming in Austin earlier this month, with plans to release the film sometime late this year.
“Graham’s work defies easy description,” says Antenna’s Billy Ray Brewton. “He takes such personal material and turns it into the kind of ride that would make Cronenberg proud. It made all the sense in the world that Antenna would partner with Graham for our first official production.”
Founded by Brewton, Ryan Verrill, and Evil Dead Wrath’s Francis Galluppi, Antenna seeks to “challenge and redefine the current paradigm of independent film distribution through close relationships with filmmakers, fairness, transparency, and a motivating desire to put the art and artists front and center.” Their previous acquisitions include Bluebird, The Man Whom the Trees Loved, and the documentary Stolen Kingdom.
An exact release date has not been set for Organonym!. Stay tuned to FANGORIA for more updates.
