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Graeme Whifler (born May 10, 1951 in San Mateo, California) is an American screenwriter and film director. Whifler has written and directed numerous movies, television documentaries, videos, and music videos.
Graeme Whifler was born on 10 May 1951 in San Mateo, California, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Neighborhood Watch (2005), Sonny Boy (1989) and Dr. Giggles (1992).
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Mar 16, 2024 · Deadly End may be a disappointingly conventional new title for the movie originally known as Neighborhood Watch and now hitting DVD from Lunatic Releasing. But for writer/director Graeme Whifler, it’s a happy end for his film’s three-year odyssey to commercial release, and he’s especially pleased that his upsetting (in more ways than one ...
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Director, painter and photographer Graeme Whifler was flung through strange circumstance into the orbit of the mysterious, anonymous San Francisco music group and arts collective known as The Residents in or around 1978 – even he isn’t entirely sure when.
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Graeme Whifler (born May 10th 1951) is an American photographer, screenwriter and director, best known for his collaborations with The Residents and other Ralph Records artists in the 1970s and 1980s.
Whifler stopped working with Ralph Records in 1982, but continued to work in music videos and television throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. Whifler has directed three feature length films, Ancient Prophecies, Ancient Prophecies III: New Visions of the Future, & Neighborhood Watch.
Graeme Whifler was born in San Mateo, California on May 10th 1951. He met Residents, Uninc. in 1971, when a high school friend of his suggested he visit the group's apartment. Whifler and the group became friends, and he helped them paint their roof black.
By 1974 Whifler had begun assisting The Residents with photography and art projects, also helping them to direct and shoot a sequence in their troubled (and ultimately unfinished) feature film Vileness Fats. Around this time Whifler also took the photograph which would become the cover of the group's 1978 EP Duck Stab!.
Whifler's collaboration with the group expanded into the creation of a number of music videos; both for The Residents and for other artists signed to their record company Ralph Records. The first such project was an abandoned film project based on songs from the Duck Stab/Buster & Glen album (later resulting in the 1980 music video "Hello Skinny"). Whifler's video work for Ralph continued into the early 1980s, resulting in the short films "One Minute Movies" in 1980, and "Songs For Swinging Larvae" for Renaldo & The Loaf in 1981.
His collaboration with The Residents ended in 1982, after he declined to direct the group's Mole Show live tour (having had no prior experience in this field). Whifler continued directing music videos and television into the early 2000s, co-writing the screenplays for Sonny Boy in 1989 and Dr. Giggles in 1992. In 2005 he wrote and directed a feature film, Neighborhood Watch.
The Residents' video archive was digitized in 2015 by Don Hardy, for the documentary film Theory of Obscurity: A Film About The Residents. Although Whifler did not participate actively in the making of this documentary, it prominently features restored clips and outtakes from his video work for the group. Whifler has since said that he feels he has not been credited appropriately for his work featured in the film.
Whifler posted new HD restorations of "Hello Skinny", "One Minute Movies" and "Songs For Swinging Larvae" on his YouTube channel in October 2019. The videos were restored from the original negatives by Peter Conheim for the Cinema Preservation Alliance. The new restorations have since been unlisted on YouTube (however as of February 2021 they have not been deleted).
•The Residents - Duck Stab (1978, Cover Photo)
•The Residents - Duck Stab / Buster & Glen (1978, Cover Photo)
•The Residents - Video Voodoo (1987, One-Minute Movies Co-Directed by, Hello Skinny & Songs For Swinging Larvae Directed By)
•The Residents - Icky Flix (2001, One-Minute Movies Co-Directed by, Songs For Swinging Larvae & Hello Skinny Directed By)
•The Residents - Kettles Of Fish On The Outskirts Of Town (2003, Photography)
•The Residents - Not Available (2004, Rehearsal Photography)
•Hello Skinny (1979)
•One Minute Movies (1980, Co-Director)
•Man In The Dark Sedan (1980)
•Songs For Swinging Larvae (1981)
•Secrets and Mysteries: Jack The Ripper (1983)
•True Men Don't Kill Coyotes (1984)
•Graeme Whifler at YouTube
•Graeme Whifler at MoMA
•Graeme Whifler at Saatchi Art
•Graeme Whifler at IMDb
•Graeme Whifler at Wikipedia
1.Ian Shirley - Never Known Questions, 2015
Graeme Whifler has been snapping pictures since he was a kid. Son of a Northern California Mid-Century Modern Architect, Whifler has used photography, television, movies, and writing to create imagery and tell his stories.
Ron with filmmaker Graeme Whifler on set during the 1983 music video shoot for, “Cool Places”. Cool Places, a bunch of Residents videos AND he wrote Dr. Giggles. Graeme Whifler's the man. 1.8K subscribers in the sparksftw community. Everything about Ron and Russell Mael aka Sparks.
