WE HAVE BEEN WORTHLESS

John and Bruce Ervin are proud to present their newest documentary "We Have Been Worthless!"

A look at the Tea Party Movement in Minnesota, via the 2010 Tax Day Protest and Freedom Day Celebration on the State Capitol grounds. Interviews with participants are interspersed with highlights from speakers on Tax Day and cannon firings two weeks later on May Day ... er, Freedom Day. Watch as interviewees demand freedom from all taxation, espouse the doctrine of Ayn Rand, and proudly call President Obama everything from "hack" to "Socialist" to"fascist" to ... "pimp"?

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THE DEVIL WEARS 9/11 John Ervin's latest live theater contribution to the Minnesota Fringe Festival. The tenth anniversary of 9/11 becomes ground zero for right-wing extremism, evangelical intolerance, Satanic worship ... and international fashion! Performances were held August 5-14, 2011at Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis. August 7 performance was recorded on DVD and is available at no charge directly from www.ervinflix.com (not IndieFlix where Ervin film titles are available). Cast bios and reviews for the show can be found at www.fringefestival.org.

CATFIGHT! Two rival teams of documentary filmmakers, following the campaigns of two women running for Congress, are able to affect the election thanks to advice from the ghost of Elvis Presley. A live theatrical production of this comedy film script was presented at the 2008 Minnesota Fringe Festival. It featured John Ervin in the role of right-wing talk show host Bill "Kill!" Sargent and Elvis impersonator Micheal Cooperman as The King. Voted among the Top 50 Film Scripts at the 2010 Exposure Fest in Minneapolis.

NO WITNESSES A dark, multi-story work in the vein of Pulp Fiction and Thirteen Conversations About One Thing. Three sets of depraved people, all socially connected by an unseen, degenerate millionaire, undergo bizarre conflicts as a result of their destructive tendencies.

CLEANLINESS IS ...  A short piece that blends the raw realism of the cinema of John Cassavettes with the unintentional hilarity of educational films of the '50's and '60's. This script concerns the wackily dysfunctional relationship between a chain-smoking salesman, his drunken, hoarder wife and their teenage delinquent son.

HOLLYWOOD RISING A musical tribute to the cinematic and literary works of avant-garde filmmaker and Hollywood Babylon author Kenneth Anger. A heroin-addicted actress in 1935 Hollywood agrees to dry out in order to revive her career. She is hardly clean before she finds herself caught in a web of murder, romance and Satanic worship.

WAKE UP AND SMELL THE NAPALM The Song Remains the Same meets The Forty-Year Old Virgin. Two obsessive, middle-aged fans of a has-been heavy metal singer resurrect his career under a new musical identity, and soon find their lives utterly destroyed by this new persona. Any resemblance to Van Halen's greatest lead singer, with whom they may or may not have recently reunited, is purely coincidental.