The Utility Carol - - Dulvlu Spa Short Film
Channel: Dulvlu Spa
Date: 2017-12-14

A poor man's millennial scrooge gets the ol 3-Ghost Treatment for his massive bills in a stream of events no one can make sense of. 





Just picture that David Lynch and Mel Brooks had a bone-marrow baby and this is what it made when they were 22. 

First a Parody, then a PSA, now a Short Film... The Utility Carol breaks out with fancy flying fonts, random vomiting, drama-king roommate-beggars, confetti teleports, discount Madonnas in bathrobes, heatstrokes in the dead of winter, blue collar business ghosts, talking drowning grass, eyeball scene transitions, REAL flaming torches, trans-dimensional slips, pizza rolls, Aztec death whistles, man-eating saint Bernards, and an LSD montage that'll save you 30% on your utility bill.

The Utility Carol epitomizes all that young director Dulvlu Spa could do in a short film. Dulvlu Spa is me, so I'll stop talking in third person for SEO's sake from now on.
[The] Utility Carol took 9 months to completely finish. There's a documentary about the making of the film you can see after this. It started as a one-minute project for school, that grew to become the best film of my college years. This is the last film before I hit the big wide world... which seems more passive aggressive and cliquey than any high school could hope to be. And this film soothes about 60% of my concerns with finding work. It's a showcase, a wild ride, and a first true collaboration with fellow director Sean McGehee. Furthermore, it's the best kickstart I could hope for to my career (besides Floppy'93, but, you know). From now on (probably just 2018), all my shorts will be measured by this film. Nothing is allowed to be worse. This is the gold standard, baby; Crazy amazing.
This is also my first film to be put into an actual contest. We'll see how that goes.

Which brings me to credits...

Behind the scenes features by|||||| Tyler Templeton and Sarah Yiu
Poster design by|||||| Fahimeh Bayat
Starring|||| Sean McGehee ||||| Andrew McDonald |||||| Quinten Curry ||||| and || Jack Collier
Also featuring |||||| Dulvlu Spa |||| Kyle Montague |||| Julian Smart ||||| Dave McDonald |||| Shawn Keeley |||| Bentley "Pickles" De Niro |||||
Sound Mixing, Design Original Song and Foley |||||  Quinten Curry
Best boy, Songwriter |||| Maddie Malcolm
Singer |||| Jessica Murillo
Original Soundtrack by ||||||| Cameron Schmidt
Additional soundtrack |||||| Sinitus Tempo
Gaffer, Special Effects Cleanup ||||| Julian Smart
Associate Producer(s) |||||| Ben Bruggeman, Blake Mertens
Pyrotechnic ||||| Marc Huard
Director, Writer, Cinematographer, Editor, Special Effects, Animal Wrangler |||||| Dulvlu Spa