Mark Ellinger

AKA:
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1949-01-01

Biography

Mark Ellinger is an American composer raised in Ohio. Ellinger met and became friends with filmmaker Curt McDowell while studying at the San Francisco Art Institute. Between 1971 and 1987, he taught classes at the Art Institute and the Academy of Art. He worked as a recording engineer, sound designer, electronics technician, composer and actor on various independent films. In 1982, he opened the 16-track recording studio Truth and Beauty.

Crew Roles

Thundercrack!
Story
Taboo: The Single and the LP
Music
Thundercrack!
Music
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Music
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {15}

1974-01-01 1

Nudes: A Sketchbook

"Curt McDowell's NUDES (A Sketchbook) is a paean to the filmmaker's closest friends: a series of portraits (beginning with one of George Kuchar) based on stylized, often graphically sexual interpretat ...
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1970-01-01 1

Pornogra Follies

Ted Davis is everyone's favorte Master of Ceremonies for the following performances: Peckernose Act, The Cooking and the Washing Act, Spin Your Little Clothes Off Act, Tea Break, The Spinning Nuns, B ...
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1975-11-28 5.7

The Devil's Cleavage

A shady motel manager becomes obsessed with a neglected wife. ...
Genre :Drama

1972-03-15 5.3

Confessions

"Just as outrageous is Curt McDowell's CONFESSIONS. McDowell, a graduate student at San Francisco Art Institute, opens his film with a confession to his mother and father, listing in exhausting detail ...
Genre :Drama

1973-01-01 1

Dora Myrtle

Ainslie Pryor in two miniature dramas, utilizing wind sound effects, canned laughter, and "I Love Lucy" lighting. ...
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Dave Powers

1972-11-01 5.5

Lunch

A San Francisco bohemian deadbeat sits around his apartment and fantasizes about women. ...
Genre :Romance

1973-01-01 0

The Mean Brothers "Get Stood Up"

Two brothers are stood up and lament through song. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

1974-01-01 2

True Blue and Dreamy

A real and favorite dream of mine, preserved on film to be relived over and over. ...
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1972-01-01 1

Siamese Twin Pinheads

A little talent show. ...
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1972-01-01 1

Peed Into the Wind

An hour-long saga of Mick Terrific, rock 'n' roll star, and the cast of 50 he encounters on his search for "Mr. Wonderful." “PEED INTO THE WIND smears across the screen like one of those dirty underg ...
Genre :Comedy

1974-01-01 1.5

Beaver Fever

Starring George Kuchar as "Hunk", Mrs. Ruby B. Davis as "Aunt Ruth", and introducing Melida McDowell as the much-abused, sex bomb "Goldenrod". ...
Genre :Comedy

1987-01-01 0

Video Album 5: The Thursday People

The comings and goings of the late underground filmmaker, Curt McDowell—and the people and activities that came and went along with him—are the themes that run through this existential diary of daily ...
Genre :Documentary

Charlie Hammond

1975-12-29 6.5

Thundercrack!

An eccentric and alcoholic widow hosts a motley assortment of travelers - four men, three women and one gorilla - who arrive one eventful night to get out of a torrential rainstorm. ...
Genre :Comedy, Horror

Mean Brother

1973-01-01 1

Boggy Depot

A musical for the whole family. A rural operette starring Ainslie Pryor and Geore Kuchar, told through song and rhme. ...
Genre :

Swinger

1973-09-13 3.429

Resurrection of Eve

Eve is stuck in an abusive relationship with her lover, Frank, but after attending a few swing parties, she begins to lose her inhibitions in more ways than one. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama