A high-speed automotive smash-em-up parallels the ups and downs of a defunct love affair.

 

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PINK SLIPS

The post-mortem of a long term relationship goes the way of all flesh…and car crashes.

Left to ponder his broken relationship, a newly jilted lover recalls the whole affair in terms of a crazed automotive chase, leading to the usual, crunching end.

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Director’s statement

“The car chase sequences featured in Pink Slips were excised from one of my undergraduate films, Arena. We shot Arena back in the day on a disused, WWll-era airfield in Brooklyn, New York. The logistics and physics for all the collisions were tricky, but I was twenty. You’re indestructible at twenty.

To this day, though, I must say, I suffer no ill effects. Anyway, as Arena, it won a best of show and a couple other citations at some festivals and I got to travel with it to Europe and it played as far away as the Singapore International Film Festival, which is what I love most about film: It’s mobile and translatable almost anywhere.”
 

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Film Credits

Writer/Director - Chris Clements
Featuring the stunt stylings of the Ned Nisbit Fall Guys
Music by the Behee Haullickers of 1947
Original Photographs: Gerard Beaucousin, Jamie Stiles, F.T. Matlock
Original Art: Yoshi Sugitatso
Julie Goldman as the voice of Margo and the pictures of Susan
Christopher Clements as Hal

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Production Personnel

Writer/Director
Chris Clements
Chris Clements is a writer/director whose films have been screened and won awards throughout the world.

After a wide-ranging domestic and international festival run, Chris’ debut feature film was licensed for international television broadcast and home video distribution throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and South America. FREE FLOATERS details the exploits of a dysfunctional young couple, a Chevy van full of VCRs and a crazed mission to reorder the stock of video stores across the continental United States.

Chris has written and directed a wide variety of award winning short films, including: ARENA, DIGITAL GREMLIN FOR WINDOWS, PINK SLIPS, HUMAN-X-IS-TENSE and HYPNOSTASIS. His documentaries include X-PHILES and WHAT’S UP. Chris’ other writings include novels, stage and screenplays. He is currently completing a new novel, THE ARTIFACTS OF MANIC D.

Producer
Julie Goldman 
Julie Goldman has over 15 years of experience as a producer specializing in raising financing for documentary films. Goldman is a founding partner of Cactus Three, a New York based company that executive produces high-end documentary films and non-fiction programming. Cactus Three’s feature documentaries have screened at the most prestigious film festivals around the world, including Cannes, Sundance, Toronto, Berlin, Tribeca and London.

Most recently, Goldman executive produced Doubletime (Discovery Films); SXSW Audience Award winner Cat Dancers (HBO Documentary Films); Alexis Arquette: She’s My Brother (A&E IndieFilms/Channel 4), which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival; and 2007 Sundance Audience Award winner In the Shadow of the Moon, which was released in September 2007 by THINKFilm.