Los Angeles is a city where dreams are made. But, for most people looking to find a career in the entertainment industry, this town can become an unending nightmare. The torture of an L.A. working actor’s existence is exquisitely captured in Daniel Martinico‘s Ok, Good.
This is Martinico’s first feature film, but like his video installation pieces and short films such as Khan and Bike Thief, he maximizes the technique of repetition to terrific effect, which immediately immerses the audience into the mind-numbing life of the movie’s main character, Paul Kaplan (Hugo Armstrong), as he blandly travels from commercial auditions to acting workshops to a headshot procurement that escalates into an epic battle.
Kaplan has no life other than his acting — no friends, no family, no hobbies. He attempts to console himself through listening to life affirmation tapes driving from one mundane task to another.
This is Martinico’s first feature film, but like his video installation pieces and short films such as Khan and Bike Thief, he maximizes the technique of repetition to terrific effect, which immediately immerses the audience into the mind-numbing life of the movie’s main character, Paul Kaplan (Hugo Armstrong), as he blandly travels from commercial auditions to acting workshops to a headshot procurement that escalates into an epic battle.
Kaplan has no life other than his acting — no friends, no family, no hobbies. He attempts to console himself through listening to life affirmation tapes driving from one mundane task to another.
- 2/4/2015
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Get an up close and personal — and completely intense — look at the Los Angeles audition process in filmmaker Daniel Martinico’s debut feature film Ok, Good. The film is available for streaming starting today on various VOD outlets, including Amazon and iTunes.
The film stars real-life actor Hugo Armstrong as on-screen actor Paul Kaplan, who haplessly trudges from one demoralizing TV commercial audition to the next, all the while letting an inner-rage boil inside him until it’s set to explode. Both Armstrong and Martinico collaborated on the script.
Ok, Good made its debut at the 2012 Slamdance Film Festival and is now being released on VOD by Slamdance’s partnership with the company Cinedigm. Over the past year and a half, the film has also screened at the Chicago Underground Film Festival, the Minneapolis Underground Film Festival and many other fests.
While this is Martinico’s debut feature, he has...
The film stars real-life actor Hugo Armstrong as on-screen actor Paul Kaplan, who haplessly trudges from one demoralizing TV commercial audition to the next, all the while letting an inner-rage boil inside him until it’s set to explode. Both Armstrong and Martinico collaborated on the script.
Ok, Good made its debut at the 2012 Slamdance Film Festival and is now being released on VOD by Slamdance’s partnership with the company Cinedigm. Over the past year and a half, the film has also screened at the Chicago Underground Film Festival, the Minneapolis Underground Film Festival and many other fests.
While this is Martinico’s debut feature, he has...
- 11/5/2013
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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