Friday, April 05, 2013
MIKAL EVANS – ACTRESS SINGER SONGWRITER – IN "HOW WE GOT AWAY WITH IT" - AT SIFF
MIKAL EVANS
ACTRESS SINGER SONGWRITER
"HOW WE GOT AWAY WITH IT"
ACTRESS SINGER SONGWRITER
"HOW WE GOT AWAY WITH IT"
SOHO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (SIFF)
APRIL 5-12 2013
Mikal Evans is a principal actress in HOW WE GOT AWAY WITH IT, a new thriller with its New York Premiere on Sat, April 6, at the SOHO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL.
Mikal Evans
Photo by Eric Roffman
HOW WE GOT AWAY WITH IT – AT SIFF – TICKETS:
PREVIEW – HOW WE GOT AWAY WITH IT
Mikal is a terrific actress, and an exciting singer/songwriter, who recently had a starring role in KISSES, CHLOE, and can also be seen -- as Sarah Palin’s assistant -- in GAME CHANGE.
Mikal is also a singer-songwriter. Her music has a strong, compelling, and sensual sound; many songs come with hooks that are hard to unhook from your brain. Southern influenced indie-rock, it is some of the most interesting and powerful popular music I’ve heard -- for its melodies, its background harmonies, its rhythms, its lyrics, and her performance (an emotional, clear, lovely sound with surprising flourishes).
Her lyrics seem to me highly suggestive of hidden histories, and somewhat inscrutable. They are sometimes hard (or impossible) to understand completely in performance, yet they complement the sound perfectly, and the sounds complement the words. Read from a page, the lyrics are complex and subtle poetry with layers of meaning and depth of feeling.
Mikal Evans in mid-performance
Photo by Eric Roffman
She says the music and the idea of the words often come together all at once; yet the words often start as incoherent syllables that slowly coalesce into the words that express the feeling of the song.
Much of Mikal’s music is available on sound tracks on the web and music videos on YouTube (see below). She plays often at venues in Manhattan and Brooklyn. (However, unfortunately, her last scheduled concert ‘til the Fall was just last night). To see and hear her live it pays to follow mikalevansmusic.com fairly closely, since she often posts events with little warning. She also has a signup for an e-mail alert. (But not every event is announced that way. So, again, closely follow the website!)
As an actress, her looks are highly mutable, and her performance always moving. Her acting page, mikalevans.com, gives three very different looks. Her highly professional and impressive reel shows how different (and convincing) she has looked in various roles. It’s interesting to compare her look in KISSES, CHLOE with her look today, at ease, and with her look while rocking-out in performance.
She also appears in a very interesting video format by the director of HOW WE GOT AWAY WITH IT. He calls it a Moving Portrait, and it is a one minute, wordless video in which Mikal simply looks at the camera.
from JeffBarryFilms on Vimeo.
Mikal’s first starring role was in KISSES, CHLOE (which also used her music) a 2010 Hamptons International Film Festival selection. Her most important role to date was as Sarah Palin’s assistant in GAME CHANGE where she appeared in many scenes with Julianne Moore. (Julianne called Mikal out near the top of her list during Julianne’s SAG Award thank-you remarks.)
In addition to HOW WE GOT AWAY WITH IT, which will be screened in New York on Saturday (after receiving a nice review following its screening at a Festival in Georgia), Mikal will be appearing in INNOCENCE (in which she is not very innocent), a film currently in post-production. After working on several music videos, Mikal will be directing her first narrative short film later this year.
She describes herself as a “maker”. She is most happy making music as a writer and performer and making films as a director and an actress.
Mikal talked with QPORIT on (3D!) camera about her music and the film. Here are some excerpts from this interview.
It looks best in full screen, and can be watched in 3D with red/cyan glasses or even on a 3D TV or NVIDIA 3D computer (and probably -- though that hasn't been tested yet -- on Nintendo 3D).
You can also watch it in NORMAL 2D. Just click the 3D button at the bottom of the video and select Turn off 3D.
HOW WE GOT AWAY WITH IT
http://youtu.be/zG-FuKFi5A4
Mikal Evans is a major talent. She is intelligent, nice, friendly, and hard working. I think her music is superior, and her acting is versatile, attractive and sophisticated. She is ready to break-out!
LINKS
QPORIT (Oct 21, 2010): KISSES, CHLOE WITH ROBIN SINGER AND MIKAL EVANS
http://qporit.blogspot.com/2010/10/kisses-chloe-with-robin-singer-mikal.html
QPORIT (Nov 9, 2010): MIKAL EVANS FROM KISSES, CHLOE IN CONCERT
http://qporit.blogspot.com/2010/10/mikal-evans-from-kisses-chloe-in.html
MIKAL EVANS HOME PAGE – ACTING
http://www.mikalevans.com/
MIKAL EVANS HOME PAGE – MUSIC
www.mikalevansmusic.com
MIKAL EVANS - FACEBOOK
https://www.facebook.com/mikalevansmusic
MIKAL EVANS - MOVING PORTRAIT
http://vimeo.com/31514936
MIKAL EVANS - IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2669510/?ref_=tt_cl_t11
MIKAL EVANS - YOUTUBE MUSIC VIDEOS
...MAGNOLIA
http://youtu.be/h0vrQkVIuPM
...BUILD A CANNON
http://youtu.be/08cOq2UkSts
...HOLDING ON TO
http://youtu.be/oypPJzoyEuc
...FIRE WHORE
http://youtu.be/pjkCOaQAGuo
HOW WE GOT AWAY WITH IT
…OFFICIAL SITE - http://www.howwegotawaywithit.com/
…IMDB - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2017711/
…FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/howwegotawaywithit?ref=ts&sk=wall
INNOCENCE – IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1724965/
GAME CHANGE – IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1848902/
KISSES, CHLOE - IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1691864/
MIKAL EVANS ON AMAZON
MIKAL EVANS ON iTUNES
Labels: actress, All The King Kongs, GAME CHANGE, HOW WE GOT AWAY WITH IT, KISSES CHLOE, Magnolia, Mikal Evans, SIFF, singer, SOHO International Film Festival, songwriter
