Starring:

John Lambertson, Phe Caplan, Sy Richardson, Jason Stuart, Steve Moramarco, Carrie Armstrong, Eve Gordon, Kathyrn Kates, and Luis Fernandez-Gil.

Directed By:

Billy Joseph

To tree or not to tree?

He wakes up. He walks on two feet. He goes to work. He chops and hacks down trees. He is needled and wheedled by customers. He is thinking about a joke he can live out. He is running out of time–he is pushing on the bars of a cage of his own making. He is trying to love and running on fear. He is tired and he is lonely. He knows nothing. He knows everything. He wants to shake you up. He wants to pull the rug out from under your comfortable existence. He wants to cathode-ray-gun you with his genuflecting-hippie-drugged-out-philosophizing-cooler-than-coolness. And sometimes he’s just a crab, doing a dance.

“I was inspired by the lead character.  I will remember him forever.”

Peter Valentino
Neon Venus Art Theater Co-owner

He’s a guy tapping his feet. On this planet. Firm, brown earth. He knows there is a connection between him and the earth. Between him and the trees he swings through. The trees he cuts to give life. The leaves scatter in the bed of his old F-150. His dreams scatter and he chases them down the streets of Venice. He sleeps in a bed. He has a girlfriend. They fight. They make LOVE. Arlo Thurston–Monkey Man. He loves to love and joke and run and scream through the trees. He has a chainsaw. Arlo is an entertainer in search of a stage. He is a monkey in search of a clan. He is a human in search of a thought…Arlo Thurston is a man. Arlo is a monkey. Modern. Primitive.