James Kaelan

We're Getting On (Monster Meanman)

Author and filmmaker James Kaelan returns to Skylight Books to celebrate the re-release of his novella We're Getting On and, immediately following this event, the premiere of his documentary of the same name at the United Film Festival. In July 2010, Skylight hosted the launch party for the original editon of We're Getting On, a limited-edition novella with a seed-embedded cover.  The event was also the kick-off of the author's book tour -- entirely by bicycle -- which took him more than 1,000 miles from Los Angeles to Seattle, and which the documentary chronicles. Come hear a reading from this excellent novella, a harrowing tale of ideals taken to their extreme, then attend the screening, right next door at the Los Feliz 3 at 2 p.m.!

James Kaelan is the author of the novella We're Getting On, and the forthcoming novel, Brute. He is also a director and producer. His first documentary, We're Getting On, which he co-directed with Miles Kittredge, begins a tour of the festival circuit on April, making its premiere at the United Film Festival in Los Angeles.

Kaelan is also the writer/director of the highly controversial narrative feature Eel, which wrapped production in January, and the co-writer of the narrative feature Family Games, which wrapped last December in New York. His latest project, Premonitions of a Later Film, enters pre-production this summer.

THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS APRIL 28, 2012.