Eat The Rainbow
Director: Brian Benson
Short: Narrative
Comedy Musical |
USA |
20 min
EAT THE RAINBOW is a musical fable, about an odd yet kind man named Bayani, who moves into a conservative suburban neighborhood, and begins disrupting an otherwise comfortable homogeny. He doesn’t look or act like anyone else, which causes fear and panic, and eventually a demand for him to leave the neighborhood. Cousin Wonderlette befriends Bayani, and together they take on the opposition, led by a manipulative, and unscrupulous realtor: Lobelia Gerber.
Director’s bio:
Brian Benson has been making ridiculous movies since he was eight years old – only then he had youth as a defense. After studying film at UCLA, and San Francisco State University, Brian directed several festival films, and a few commercial videos, including an ill-fated video about a loose-fitting condom. His alter ego, Cousin Wonderlette, first performed in 2003 at a late-night live serial show in Los Angeles called: THE STRIP – A LIVING COMIC BOOK, and then, didn’t reemerge until 2009, when San Francisco drag superstar Peaches Christ snatched her out of hibernation, to perform at her summer screening series MIDNIGHT MASS.