Collected Item: “LIFE DURING LOCKDOWN”
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LIFE DURING LOCKDOWN
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Short films
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During the first month of the lockdown in Santa Monica, California, Catherine Butterfield and Ron West started making short films for their friends and family, attempting to find humor in the very strange situation we all suddenly found ourselves in. Entitled LIFE DURING LOCKDOWN, they assumed it would be a very short lived project. A year later they still find themselves doing it, and in fact are on their 61st film as of March 21, 2021. At one point, having run out of interesting things to say about their own relationship, they started to tell stories using the marionettes Catherine and her mother created when she was in high school. These films fall under the banner BUTTERPOTTS PLAYERS PRESENT, are much more technically advanced, (Catherine taught herself iMovie) and employ the voices and sometimes even the faces of talented actor friends who were willing to play along: Jean Smart, Bob Odenkirk, Richard Kind, Peter Onorati, Priscilla Barnes, Kiff Vandenheuvel, Nancy Youngblut, Nancy Ritter and a host of others.
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#thelockdownexperience, #findingcreativity,#acoupleinisolation,#findingthefunnyinapandemic,#lifeduringlockdown,
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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCts7cG3EiUMgqJsLPgSuTLw/featured
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Catherine Butterfield
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2021-03-21