KICK MY HEART'S ASS @ APEX ART: THROUGH 3/21/9

Author and filmmaker Davy Rothbart was working on a personal documentary called My Heart Is An Idiot, and was trying to answer some basic questions about love and how to present it artistically. For example, how do you make a story about love funny without casting Kate Hudson or Matthew McConaughey? If the geniuses in Hollywood couldn't figure that one out, how could Davy?

So he asked a collection of talented friends to explore comedic and other challenges by producing short, love-related films of their own, resulting in Kick My Heart's Ass. A lot of different points of view are explored here, but special mention has to be given to Dan Tice's L., a film in which an average guy becomes addicted to a street drug that makes him feel in love—joy and ecstacy just weren't cutting it so he had to move on to the hard stuff. Tool Academy, Xanadu, and an intervention follow, to hilarious effect. This show ends Saturday, so make a point of getting there this week.
 

Apex Art
Feb 11 - March 21, 2009
291 Church Street
(between Walker and White Streets)
New York, NY 10013
Tel: (212) 431-5270
Open Tuesday through Saturday, 11am—6pm.