7.07.14 (7pm) Pre-Screening of Margaret Haines' COCO

Margaret Haines | Pre-screening COCO

Monday July 7 2014, 7pm at Human Resources

Human Resources is pleased to present a pre-screening of Margaret Haines’ featurette film COCO.

COCO drifts betwixt and between states of consciousness and madness – and genre, exploring film Noir epilogue, sci-fi, skate video and #pale-core. Its ambivalence to definition is predicated by using the possibility of delusion and irrationality as its methodological model. 

The character Coco, half deluded actress, half recovering patient, relates her life in the span of what could be one day, while her memory extends the film’s time to include childhood, fantasy, trauma and future aspirations – beyond the time she takes to tell you. 

The cast is primarily made up of friends, street casting, selecting existing relationships into parafictional situations, and one method actress. The performers who play Coco range in age from 3 yrs old to 40 yrs old and age as the film progresses (which was shot intermittently over 4 years).

This pre-screening of COCO, is presented in conjunction with Haines’ current exhibition at ltd Los Angeles, Spring Summer X-Filles x COCO, an installation which acts as commerce display for the film’s props, clothing and accessories. The pre-screening event includes performative excerpts from this installation. A second pre-screening will be held on July 27th at ltd Los Angeles.
http://www.ltdlosangeles.com/margarethaines_exhibition.html

Doors at 7.

Hope stands in kitchen.
Hope cooks food.
Hope cracks an egg with her long fingernail. 

AMANTHA
What does she read?

HOPE 
I don’t know.

Bexxa chews gum.

EXT. – DRIVEWAY – MOM/COCO HOUSE – DUSK

Side of house. 
Hope, Amantha, and Bexxa toss Coco’s books, magazines, records, clothing into fire. 
Coco is shocked.
Coco wears a bikini around her waist. 
Amantha and Bexxa notice Coco.
Bexxa chews gum.
Amantha nudges Hope’s arm.
Hope looks up at Coco. 
Coco in a silent fit.

INT. – HIGH SCHOOL CLASSROOM – SUNSET

Coco walks to the front of the room. 
Coco wears a necklace with ‘COCO’ carved in cursive gold.

Starring

Maria Olsen
Cara Elizabeth
Robin Newman
Jewel Steele
Lula Steele
Hope Urban 
Coco Urban
Phoebe Lewin
Robin Newman
Yasmin Walker
Colette Moss
Mackenzie Lord
Dan Finsel
Lauren Mollica
Sebastion Dejesos
Isaac Samuelson
Aimee Goguen
Jessie Thurston
Alex Beauregard
Mariah Garnett
Chanel Eddines
Rhys Ernst
Paul Rodriguez
Kelly Cline

Original music composed by
Patrick Dyer

Director of Photography
Monika Lenczewska

Directed by
Margaret V Haines