J Roland Kelly is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and singer-songwriter. In 2010 his film ''
Sleeping with Charlie Kaufman'' was an official selection of the Rome International Film Festival and nominated for a Charles B. Pierce Award.
In 2004 he released an album of spoken word poetry entitled ''J Roland Kelly, Stop Your Nursing Unless You're Rendering Fun''
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Retrieved September 10, 2024. followed by ''J Roland Kelly Taunts the Process ...into Attacking'' in 2008,
and on January 20, 2009—the last day of the Bush presidency—he released the single ''J Roland Kelly Marshals Against Karl Rove''.
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Retrieved July 24, 2011.
In the promotional lead up to ''J Roland Kelly, Stop Your Nursing Unless You're Rendering Fun'' he released a series of short films including ''Music Video'', ''Billfold'', and ''It Just Happens that Way''. This experience led to him reworking a group of short films he made in adolescence to produce ''Dinosaur!'' which screened at film festivals in the spring of 2005.
In 2009 after the release of ''J Roland Kelly Marshals Against Karl Rove'' he began work on ''Sleeping with Charlie Kaufman'' and in an interview with ''BeingCharlieKaufman.com'', J Roland Kelly states that he created the film in homage to Charlie Kaufman because he was inspired by early drafts of Kaufman's screenplays that he himself had read when he first started screenwriting.
In an interview with Xtranormal, J Roland Kelly describes ''Sleeping with Charlie Kaufman'' as "...basically this absurd, funny conversation between a guy and his girlfriend. He tells her he fantasizes about her twin sister, but she doesn't have a twin sister, so it's just another way of fantasizing about her… and is she offended.
t draws onsome La Nouvelle Vague & Mumblecore elements from the kind of films I was watching at the time."
''Sleeping with Charlie Kaufman'' held its premiere on June 3, 2010 at the Little Rock Film Festival.
Filmography
*''Prison Break'' (1989)
*''A Boy Named Chad'' (1989)
*''Music Video'' (2004)
*''Billfold'' (2004)
*''Just Happens that Way'' (2004)
*''Dinosaur!'' (2005)
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*'' Sleeping with Charlie Kaufman'' (2010)]
Discography
*''J Roland Kelly, Stop Your Nursing Unless You're Rendering Fun'' (2004)[
*''J Roland Kelly Taunts the Process ...into Attacking'' (2008)][
*''J Roland Kelly Marshals Against Karl Rove (Single)'' (2009)][
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See also
*Charlie Kaufman
Charles Stuart Kaufman (; born November 19, 1958) is an American screenwriter, film director, and novelist. Having first come to prominence for writing ''Being John Malkovich'' (1999), ''Adaptation (film), Adaptation'' (2002), and ''Eternal Sun ...
*Surreal humor
Surreal humour (also called surreal comedy, absurdist humour, or absurdist comedy) is a form of humour predicated on deliberate violations of causal reasoning, thus producing events and behaviors that are obviously illogical. Portrayals of s ...
*Mumblecore
Mumblecore is a subgenre of independent film characterized by naturalistic acting and (sometimes improvised) dialogue, low budgets, an emphasis on dialogue over plot, and a focus on the personal relationships of young adults. Filmmakers associ ...
*French New Wave
The New Wave (, ), also called the French New Wave, is a French European art cinema, art film movement that emerged in the late 1950s. The movement was characterized by its rejection of traditional filmmaking conventions in favor of experimentat ...
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Living people
American animated film directors
American animated film producers
American experimental filmmakers
American male screenwriters
Film directors from Arkansas
Film producers from Arkansas
American film editors
American male singer-songwriters
Singer-songwriters from Arkansas
Screenwriters from Arkansas
Year of birth missing (living people)