Always a risk-taker, George Spyros shot his first 16mm short Par King entirely without sound and then over-dubbed by different actors none of whom were in the same room at the same time. The director’s decision not to show more than one character in the same shot and its use of rapid fire editing captures the separateness and loneliness that the teenage characters feel.  This 1991 short proved visionary both for its innovative style and for introducing a sixteen-year-old Vince Vaughn the future star of Swingers and Jurassic Park: The Lost World. (16mm, 22 minutes)

Par King as seen in our 2002 Flash Website

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2002 Legacy Website: Features & Shorts

Last Days of May - Overview

Last Days of May - Family Dinner Scene

Last Days of May - Fire! Scene

Last Days of May - Quarters Bar Game Scene

JAVA SOAP - Comedy Short

Par King

Mr. hoover and I [running time 90 minutes]

At age twenty-one, George Spyros’s first professional job came editing master documentarian Emile de Antonio’s Mr. Hoover and I about J. Edgar Hoover’s plans to inter political dissidents in concentration camps. When de Antonio died on the eve of the 1990 Sundance Film Festival, Spyros was drafted to represent the film.  De Antonio remains to this day one of America’s most influential filmmakers crafting such films as Point of Order, an examination of the Army-McCarthy hearings; Rush to Judgment, the first film about the Kennedy assassination; and Vietnam in the Year of the Pig made in 1968 at the height of the war. Spyros learned much from “d” about filmmaking, politics and history.

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Filmmaker Emile de Antonio and avant-garde artist / composer John Cage bake bread vegetarian style. This scene from 'Mr. Hoover & I' takes place in Cage's New York City kitchen as the two have a casual conversation about indeterminacy. [Channel 4 original production, running time 90 minutes

2002 Legacy Website: Non-Fiction & Reality

Mr. Hoover & I

Smithsonian's America

Magazine Segments

Metro NY: New Joke City

Buena Vista Social Club Short Subject

National Geographic: Surviving West Point

National Geographic: Short Docs

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Mr. Hoover & I as seen in our 2002 Flash Website

To explore the interactive & animated, flash website CLICK HERE.
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