Alan Resnick

Not to be confused with Adam Resnick.
Alan Resnick
Birth name Alan Resnick
Alma mater SUNY Purchase

Alan Resnick is an American comedian, visual artist, and filmmaker based in Baltimore, Maryland.[1] He is a member of the Wham City arts collective and founding member of Wham City Comedy.[2]

Work

Before working on Adult Swim, Resnick was famous for creating the popular YouTube web series, AlanTutorial.[3] Gizmodo called Resnick's video "ARM tutorial" one of the "weirdest videos on the internet".[4] In 2014, Resnick premiered a set of new media art pieces in collaboration with artist Lesser Gonzalez, at the Springsteen Gallery in Baltimore, MD.[5][6]

Resnick is the co-creator and Director of Adult Swim's This House Has People in it, and co-director of Unedited Footage of a Bear and Live Forever as You Are Now with Alan Resnick. In the piece, Resnick plays a "hot young tech wizard" promising immortality via a recreation of the patron's personality and face inside a computer program.[7] Principal photography for the infomercial was conducted in the Copycat Building during the summer of 2013.

Resnick is the author of $8.95, a book of online customer service chats between Resnick and Bank of America in which Resnick pleads to recover his eponymous bank fee.[8] Resnick directed the music video for Dan Deacon's "Guilford Avenue Bridge" and Lower Dens.

Since the site launched in 2014, Resnick has been a contributing writer for The Onion's sister publication, ClickHole.[9]

In 2014, Resnick filmed with Ben O'Brien the short film Unedited Footage of a Bear,[10] which was released on December 17, 2014 over Adult Swim. The short is a parody of allergy advertisements, and a veiled cautionary tale about antidepressant abuse, which slowly descends into chaos.[11]

In 2016, Adult Swim aired Resnick's latest short-film This House Has People In It.[12] The short film aired at 4:00 A.M. between March 14–19.[13] The short is reminiscent of surveillance camera footage, with the video directing the viewer to a fake security company website containing numerous companion videos, audio files, images, and text documents.[14]

All his work on Adult Swim has been made in collaboration with Baltimore based production company AB Video Solutions, LLC, an off-shoot of the Wham City arts collective. AB Video Solutions LLC is made up of Resnick, Ben O'Brien, Robby Rackleff, Cricket Arrison, and Dina Kelberman.

References

  1. "Best Mad Scientist Alan Resnick", "The Baltimore City Paper", Baltimore 15 September 2014, Retrieved on 1 October 2014.
  2. Case, Wesley."More focused Wham City Comedy Tour gets seriously funny", "The Baltimore Sun", Baltimore 19 April 2013, Retrieved on 22 July 2014.
  3. Elphick, Jody. "Like and Subscribe: a Q&A with alantutorial" London, 3 June 2013, Retrieved on 22 July 2014.
  4. Feinberg, Ashley. "11 of the Weirdest Videos on YouTube", New York, 30 May 2014, Retrieved on 22 July 2014.
  5. Livingston, Jack. "Scene Seen: BASE PERIOD – Alan Resnick & Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez @ Springsteen Gallery", Baltimore, 19 July 2014, Retrieved on 22 July 2014.
  6. Woods, Baynard. "This Modern World: Two artists turn cultural detritus into high art", Baltimore, 4 August 2014, Retrieved on 1 October 2014.
  7. Woods, Baynard."Wham City makes an infomercial", "The Baltimore City Paper", Baltimore 1 January 2014, Retrieved on 22 July 2014.
  8. Deacon, Dan. "From The Desk of Dan Deacon", Philadelphia, Retrieved on 22 July 2014
  9. "Contact ClickHole". 12 June 2014. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  10. "Adult Swim Creeps Again With New 'Infomercial', "UNEDITED FOOTAGE OF A BEAR"". Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  11. "Adult Swim's Descent Into Madness - Bloody Disgusting!". 18 December 2014. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  12. Adult Swim (15 March 2016). "This House Has People in It". Retrieved 31 July 2016 via YouTube.
  13. "This House Has People In It airs on March 14-19 [Discussion] • /r/adultswim". Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  14. "AB Surveillance Solutions". Retrieved 31 July 2016.

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