RANDOM LUNACY: videos from the road less traveled
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	sailing, counter culture, on the road, unconventional, family portrait

Film Overview

Directed By: Vic Zimet, Stephanie Silber View Official Website	Release Date: 2007-08-09 Running Time: 1:00 Content Rating: GA (General Audience)	Audio Language(s): English
Genres: Documentary >> Art & Artists :: Action >> Adventure Influences: Surfwise, Off The Grid, Into the Wild // Capturing the Friedmans // OFF THE GRID LIFE ON THE MESA // SKID ROW

Synopsis

The film follows a family of street performers who called themselves THE FLYING NEUTRINOS. They were homeless by choice, and for twenty years they documented their lives with an old
HI-8 camera, capturing adventures that ranged from a stint in a Mexican circus to pitting a scrap raft against the Atlantic Ocean. Their greatest achievement – creating for themselves an alternate universe with a value system all its own. Down and out never looked so rich.

Cast

Music: The Flying Neutrinos | bio
The Flying Neutrinos were a family band of street musicians with a self-taught specialty in Dixieland Jazz. They toured the planet by land and by sea on spare change, ingenuity, and sheer desire.
Music & Lyrics: Ingrid Lucia | bio
The multi-talented Ingrid Lucia is a New Orleans based singer-songwriter, who often brings her signature sound to New York venues such as Rodeo Bar. She was raised on the road by her father, Poppa Neutrino. Her music helps to create the nuanced ambience of RANDOM LUNACY.
Music: Todd Londagin | bio
Todd's talent for the trombone was obvious from a very early age, as witnessed firsthand in RANDOM LUNACY. He is currently touring with The Todd Londagin Big Band, headlining at such prestigious venues as New York's Birdland.
Music: Nenad Bach | bio
Nenad Bach is a composer/rock musician whose music is featured in RANDOM LUNACY. This multi-faceted artist has performed with legends from Pavarotti to Bono. He is in the process of creating a new form of world music, incorporating the enchanting voices of the Croatian folk tradition, "klapa," with his own rock compositions. He likes to say his goal is to "put ancient vibrations in the modern ear."
Co-Producer: David Pearlman | bio
David Pearlman, aka Poppa Neutrino, has lived his life as performance art, inventing each day as it comes along. Among myriad schemes and dreams, one of his eureka moments led him to pick up an old Hi-8 camera and proceed to film his family's movements over the course of more than twenty years, as they randomly roamed the world, with adventure inevitably finding them.

Crew

Director: Vic Zimet, Stephanie Silber | bio
Co-Directors Vic Zimet and Stephanie Silber of Home Team Productions are award-winning industry veterans. Recent highlights include BRAVO Profiles on Cyndi Lauper and Robert Duvall, and a DVD release of our bio-pic/cum concert film, SONGS & STORIES: New York Remembers Rory Gallagher. We're currently working on a soon-to-be-released documentary with Larry Kirwan and Black 47, the House Band of New York City.

Bonus Features

Theatrical Trailers
Deleted & Extended Scenes
Cast Interviews

Accolades

Awards

Best Documentary, Westchester Film Festival 2007
Best Documentary, Rockport Film Festival,2008

Festivals

New York Underground Film Festival, Closing Selection
Portland Underground Film Festival, Opening Selection
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Wildwood By The Sea Film Festival
New Orleans Film Festival
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
Leeds International Film Festival
Southern Circuit Tour, 2009

Press Reviews

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone | show/hide snippet
"Prepare to be wowed!"
THE VILLAGE VOICE | show/hide snippet
"A lively documentary portrait of old-school boho Poppa Neutrino and his peripatic brood."
THE OREGONIAN | show/hide snippet
"Everything you might associate with the word family gets tossed aside like an empty gum wrapper."
PORTLAND MERCURY | show/hide snippet
"A sweet, honest and inspiring film."
WILLAMETTE WEEK ONLINE | show/hide snippet
"The filmmaking, like the life, is simple by necessity, and richer for it."
CINEMA CRAZED | show/hide snippet
"I could have watched [RANDOM LUNACY] for hours."
BAD LIT | show/hide snippet
"The film moves at a nice pace from one insane story to another."
GAMBIT WEEKLY | show/hide snippet
"The viewer gets a breathtaking rush of vicarious freedom."
NOLA.com | show/hide snippet
"There was a method in Poppa Neutrino's apparent madness."
OFFBEAT | show/hide snippet
"[It is] easy to appreciate the madness and danger of Neutrino's ocean-going adventures on a raft."
THE SENTINEL-RECORD | show/hide snippet
"A profile of one of the wildest, yet cultured and civilized families on the map."
METRO | show/hide snippet
"...almost mythical."
NORTHERN FILM + MEDIA | show/hide snippet
"A feel good flowing piece."

Customer Reviews

Been wanting to see Random Lunacy for a while at the festivals, but wasn't able to actually do it... Now that I found it on DVD, I finally saw it...

The wait was worth it.. It is the story of a remarkable man named Poppa Neutrino who has led an adventurous life "off the grid"... He's 74, and has been homeless-by-choice for most of his life.. He raised a family on the street, and the kids seemed to turn out alright .. He put together a family band that would play "pretty much anywhere" to make money... Oh yeah, he sailed across the Atlantic Ocean on a raft made of garbage! So he's an intelligent guy - The author of a Poppa Neutrino's New Yorker magazine story said that he could have been quite wealthy had he been materialistic...

There was some great archive footage - It seems someone in his family had stored a LOT of footage over the years documenting the various events...

Poppa Neutrino’s story unfolded nicely and was very engrossing... The documentary was short (an hour), and while that is usually a good thing - this time it wasn’t - I actually wanted to see more... Luckily there were extra scenes on the DVD.

Speaking of the Extras, make sure you watch the "Ingrid & Katrina" clip. The one thing I would change in the main movie is that this clip should have made it in there... I won't spoil this clip here, but to me, this clip put the lifestyle of Poppa Neutrino & his "teachings" into perspective.

Speaking of the "teachings", this is the one aspect that I didn't like... While it wasn't the filmmaker's fault (it is just Poppa Neutrino's personality), some of the older footage of him showed him to be a bit preachy. It is minimal, and doesn't take away from the documentary tho... Hey it looks like his kids turned out fine, so maybe there was something to it...

I really did love this movie... It showed that you didn't have to strictly follow society's rules to be truly happy and successful... And people could definitely learn from Poppa Neutrino.

-James, Scotch Plains, NJ, United States