HORROR FILM CONTEST - FILM - ART - PERFORMANCE - media
Contact: guignolfest(at)gmail(dot)com
Cover Art: Reodica.Hillerman
Portland's Original 72-Hour Horror Film Contest & Festival (2024)
Holy sheet ghost! The 16th Annual GuignolFest is going to be a feeding frenzy of films!
25+ teams were featured Saturday 10/19 at The Clinton Street Theater.
Please click button to see this years films for the LEGACY & GOUL CATEGORIES.
Annually, we donate a portion of ticket sales to a philanthropy organization.
This year’s beneficiary is: Outside the Frame that trains homeless and marginalized youth to make films, provides job training, and a creative outlet. Teams and audience members help yearly to great community organizations to elevate underserved populations.
Please note: GuignolFest DOES NOT tolerate any unsportsmanlike behavior, negative/hurtful comments, defamation/slander/libel, discrimination, shaming, or rascism towards: GF media organizers and pages, events, artistic styles/process, teams, or film productions. Teams or its members displaying this conduct will be disqualified from the contest/event. Negative posts constitute being banned from the page by its administrators.
DISCLAIMER: HORROR FILMS WILL HAVE PROFANITY, NUDITY, VIOLENCE, SEX, GORE, DISTURBING CONTENT, STROBE LIGHTING. THESE FILMS ARE RATED "R"
Horror Series
The Night Attacks: Horror Series
Horror Series production in-progress, in festivals, and art. Online streaming for episodes TBA.
Vince and Cora, two film makers, set out to make a horror movie overseas. In Transylvania, Romania they run into trouble while filming. What they find out is that some wars never end and they are caught in the middle of it.
The Night Attacks Horror Series: Gallery
Intersecting Art & Science
Research & Development for Emerging Technologies
TUESDAY & JULIA RE*DICA were presenters at the international event for SIGGRAPH: THE PREMIER CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION ON COMPUTER GRAPHICS & INTERACTIVE TECHNIQUES
The Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques conferences started in 1974. SIGGRAPH incorporates both academic presentations as well as an industry trade show. Keynote speakers including Jensen Huang, founder of NVIDIA, discussed the challenges and future of computing advances, virtual worlds, and AI. Presenters include those from the industries of lab research, education, film, and art.
TUESDAY & JULIA are thrilled to present a groundbreaking talk on harnessing video game design to transform mental health/hygiene. This collaboration brings together an ML researcher and audio engineer, a Doctor of Nursing from the Oregon Health & Science University, and a UCLA Game Labs researcher and adjunct professor. Our focus is on gamifying the process of improving mental health and addressing micro-behaviors that impact well-being. We create immersive game narratives that guide players through personalized journeys to better mental health. Our innovative approach aims to revolutionize how individuals interact with mental health tools, providing a dynamic and supportive environment for personal growth and emotional intelligence development.
ARTIFEX Game Labs, founded by Tuesday, is a network of artists and professionals to provide development, design, research, and analysis of emerging technology.
Dylan Hillerman and Julia Reodica, of GuignolFest Media, are proud to collaborate with ARTIFEX for art and research.
GuignolFest Productions: Main Projects
2024: THE 16TH ANNUAL
WE WILL SEE YOU IN 2025 FOR THE
17TH YEAR OF GUIGNOLFEST MOVIES!
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activities during the year.
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GuignolFest YouTube Channel
GuignolFest Media:
Current & Past work in film, music video, documentation, performance.
Explore our YouTube channel and enjoy projects that we have produced, filmed, or performed. We have worked with directors, actors, musicians and artists to create music videos, films, and document performances. We produce our own work in front and behind the camera.
A Lovecraft Mystery
A Lovecraft Mystery
Randolph Carter, Skiptracer:
A Lovecraft Mystery
NEW EPISODE:
"THE STARS ARE WEIRD" (2019)
3RD EPISODE TRAILER & EPISODE
COMING SOON
Agent Carter, a Skiptracer or paranormal bounty hunter to put it loosely, has nearly impossible assignments. Continuously jumping through portals in time and space, he himself doesn't know if the worlds he lands in are real or not.
Horror Hot Tub!
A Lovecraft Mystery
Dr. Eldritch, accompanied by Nurse Failing, invite guests who dip their tentacles into the horror genre. They stew in a hot tub, learning all the dirty details of their guests. Watch the interviews which break up the horror movie that Dr. Eldritch fancies.
Watch Episode #6: Una Solitaire
Una Solitaire has spread her wings like a bat, flying with production teams such as Watched Pot, Foul is Fair, and GuignolFest.
Fantasma Life
GuignolFest Presents - RICHARD ELFMAN:
FANTASY INSANITY NIGHT!
When the King and Queen of the 6th Dimension collide with the King and Queen of GuignolFest! Richard & Anastasia Elfman along with Dylan Hillerman & Julia Reodica thank you for coming out 12/1/23 to Clinton Street Theater! May you all be inspired by the funky beats and surreal sights of "Aliens, Clowns and Geeks," "Forbidden Zone," and the Portland premiere of the horror comedy, "Bloody Bridget!"
HOME/BODY
HOME/BODY is an OFFICIAL SELECTION for SHOCKFEST FILM FESTIVAL in New York for December 10, 2021!
HOME/BODY was created for the Corman Challenge 2020. Legendary film director, Roger Corman, challenged film makers to make a 2-minute movie only using personal camera phones and the property around the home to tell a story about the quarantine.
In 2021, it was an official selection
for NYC's Shockfest.
Isolation became the main theme and conflict for the married couple in the short film and what happens when someone hastily tries to regain some freedom outside of the home.
Quarantine 2020 Performances
Quarantine 2020 Performances
Quarantine 2020 Performances
"The Masque of the Red Death"
by Edgar Allen Poe
Read by Dylan Hillerman
May 18,2020
"The Masque of the Red Death" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1842. The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague, known as the Red Death, by hiding in his abbey.
Drunk Batman
Quarantine 2020 Performances
Quarantine 2020 Performances
I tell jokes. You laugh...or
YOU LOOK INTO THE FACE OF FEAR!
EPISODES:
- DRUNK BATMAN & BANE ZOOM CALL
- DRUNK BATMAN IN QUARANTINE
- APRIL FOOLS DAY 2020 Stand-Up
- THE WINTER KNIGHT
Drunk Batman is a billionaire who falls off the wagon, troubled with trying to help the world. Follow the misadventures along with Kato, who gets pulled into ridiculous situations with him. Kato is the female cousin of Green Lantern's sidekick, also named Kato-- in which the duo had fought with Batman at one time, but female Kato has more fun with Drunk Batman.
GF Podcast Series
Quarantine 2020 Performances
SHOCK OPERA: Alice Cooper
EPISODE #4: DACRE STOKER
Dacre Stoker is the great grand-nephew of Bram Stoker, who wrote Dracula. Listen to the podcast and hear about Dacre's latest book releases, "Dracula the Un-Dead" and "Dracul," written with JD Barker.
Visit the author's website:
SHOCK OPERA: Alice Cooper
SHOCK OPERA: Alice Cooper
SHOCK OPERA: Alice Cooper
"SHOCK OPERA: An Alice Cooper Story."
Thank you, audience and fans, for 3 years of live shows. We now go into movie production to continue this story!
Click on the button below and read our blog which includes meeting the original members of the Alice Cooper Group.
Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/SHOCKOPERAPDX
Multimedia Performance Gallery
The Many Faces of Dylan & Julia
The Many Faces of Dylan & Julia
GuignolFest Productions has produced plays and live shows over the last decade, independently and in collaboration with other groups in the Portland area. See images from some of the most unique stories performed for fringe theater.
The Many Faces of Dylan & Julia
The Many Faces of Dylan & Julia
The Many Faces of Dylan & Julia
Dylan and Julia love to collaborate with other creatives, in addition to making their own artwork. Click on the gallery to see images from past work for film, performance, and art. Their creative careers span from the early 1990s to present day.
GuignolFest in the News
"Shock Opera: An Alice Cooper Story" In the News
"Shock Opera: An Alice Cooper Story" In the News
Interviews with writer, Bennett Campbell Ferguson for 2017 and 2018.
"Shock Opera: An Alice Cooper Story" In the News
"Shock Opera: An Alice Cooper Story" In the News
"Shock Opera: An Alice Cooper Story" In the News
Interview series with writer, David Nijawan and the cast and creators of Shock Opera.
About Us
GF Productions: Founder, Directors, Producers, Educators
Dylan Hillerman founded GuignolFest Productions in 2008 and is produced in partnership with Julia Re*dica. Together, they emphasize and develop the co-creative opportunities between traditional methods and advanced technologies in art making. As researchers and educators, they value collaboration to ensure a wide range of perspectives in the knowledge sharing processes.
Dylan has foundations in graphics, theater, art education, and film-- having directed, written and performed in over 100 productions, live and recorded, for 40+ years. His long career involves working in all stages of operations for theater and film, including art and effects production. For more than 16 years, he has brought together hundreds of people annually for Portland's Original 72-HR Horror Film Contest to highlight local film makers, from novice to expert. Current work also includes art development and research in emerging computational technologies.
Julia has been an interdisciplinary artist since the early 1990's, internationally. She has performed, produced, and managed works in graphics, commercial media, live performance, and multi-media, along with talent and studio management. As an interdisciplinary artist, she was a pioneer in the field of biological and technological art. She opened up new considerations of the artist as scientist, art industry ethical considerations, and new laboratory techniques for creative use. She is a producer, director, cinematographer, writer, technology researcher/developer, performer, key makeup and effects artist. Life work also includes health and healing with a Doctorate of Nursing Practice, as a Family Nurse Practitioner. For medical research, her focus is on the ethics and best practices of using technology for wellness and medication programs.
GF Productions Presents:
Portland's Original 72-Hr Horror Fil Contest
Horror Movie Production
Feature & Short Movie Production
Commissioned Video Production
Live Performances
Multimedia Artwork
Horror & Entertainment Community
GF Productions strives to bring together a community of people and creatives with interests in the horror movie genre, local movie making, fringe theater, and novel art-making.