Vileness Flats

Vileness Flats is a fictional village which is the setting of The Residents' unfinished feature film Vileness Fats, shot between 1972 and 1976.
In the film, Vileness Flats is a town populated by (largely) peaceful short people, led by the town's Mayor and its spiritual leader Saint Steve. However, Vileness Flats is frequently under siege from a gang of bandits who live in caves in a desert which is separated from the village by a giant chasm. A lamplit bridge is the only way to cross the chasm between the village and the desert.Uncle Willie's Highly Opinionated Guide to The Residents, 1992
The gang, The Bell Boys, are led by Lonesome Jack, Steve's alternate personality, and frequently enter the village via the bridge in order to raid the village's supply of meat; this leads to shortages of meat, causing many of the Vileness Flats residents to have to subsist on broccoli, depriving them of necessary protein.
The village boasts a banquet hall and a popular night club, Willy's Hot Spot, which frequently features performances from acts such as Peggy Honeydew and The Mysterious N. Senada. Elsewhere on the outskirts of Vileness Flats is a motel which houses visitors to the village (usually discernible from locals by their height), a desert of unknown size, and a volcano which sits beneath a mysterious chasm in the sky, known as The Window of Never.
== The set ==
The Vileness Flats bridge/main village square is thought to have been the first set built for the film when the group moved into their studio space on Sycamore Street, with scenes set within it filmed between 1972 and 1973, including stop motion sequences shot in the earliest part of production before the group adopted open reel videotape as their chosen medium. 
The set was still in the ground floor space at the time Portland radio disc jockey William Reinhardt visited the Sycamore Street studio in summer 1973, where Reinhardt accidentally damaged one of the lamp-posts on the bridge and repaired it before anyone had noticed."San Francisco Vacation & Meeting Residents, Uninc." book draft posted by William Reinhardt to The Residents unofficial Facebook group, August 14th 2020
== See also ==
* Vileness Fats
* Mother's House (Vileness Fats)
* Ninnie's House (Vileness Fats)
* The Banquet Hall (Vileness Fats)
* Willy's Hot Spot
* The Window of Never
== External links and references ==
* Vileness Fats at The Residents Historical
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