Veteran filmmaker Don Klugman proves it’s never too late for a producer to put his film in front of an audience, even if it’s 44 years after the film was made.
Now that “A Multiple Choice Test,” his 80-minute, 16mm workprint has been partially restored and enhanced, it will premiere July 14 at Second City’s Ramis Screening Room, second floor at 6 p.m.
Klugman of Media Inc., and a long-time Columbia College instructor, invites Chicago filmmakers and film-interested Chicagoans to come see it what black & white 16mm.
“A Multiple Choice Test” is being called a nouvelle vague period piece reflecting alienation, religious hypocrisy and dystopian funk.
Its storyline has satire, social commentary and serious drama; and, although shot in 1974, the themes are still relevant: unpopular wars, racial profiling, recreational drugs, religious hypocrisy and communication failure.
In the cast are many of the popular and well-known film, theatre and music figures of the ‘70s, including Second City founder Bernie Sahlins; IO Theatre founder Del Close; folksinger Win Stracke; actors Ted Liss, Robert Urich, Carl Stohn, Jack Wallace, Ric Riccardo,Jr., Faith Quabius, Don Shoup, Sarajane Donley, Tom Erhart and many others.
Seating is limited so RSVP here, mediamaster@earthlink.net or call Klugman at 312/642-8284. There’s a bar and the first drink is on the producer.
Over the course of his career, Klugman wrote and / or produced more than 125 educational films for Chicago-based distributors Brittanica Films and Coronet Films. As educational AV declined his work transformed to business education and corporate films.
A collection of Klugman’s Chicago films from 1964-69 were preserved, with the support of the National Preservation foundation in 2008 and are part of the Chicago Films Archives.
