Interview: Aristocrats editor Emery Emery

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on February 4th, 2005

SHECKYmagazine.com interviewed the editor of the film The Aristocrats, standup comic Emery Emery, asking technical questions, practical questions, philosophical questions:

It was shot on three-chip, consumer-end Sony, Mini-DV cameras with no special lighting or sound. It’s a true guerilla project. The guys handling the cameras ranged from (Aristocrats director Paul) Provenza and me to some dudes who had a lot of experience, to some who had absolutely no experience handling a camera.

In a previous post, we expressed skepticism about this project, theorizing that maybe the film was a hoax, that the joke that is the centerpiece of the film was concocted and that the whole affair was a brilliant goof engineered by goofster par excellence Penn Jillette. (You gotta admit, it’s a pretty good theory. And we’re still not abandoning it entirely.)

The film was a hit at Sundance, where it found a distributor. You’re not going to be able to get away from this movie. We predict that the media interest will be quite high. Prepare for the media blitz by reading the entire interview. You read it here first. It’s an exclusive. Thank us later.

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