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When Jade, a young woman disoriented by grief, stumbles into a community of artists living off the grid outside Philadelphia, she finds something she didn't know she was looking for: a world built on creative devotion, radical honesty, and life without screens. The Art Commune is a place where musicians, writers, and filmmakers have created their own society without social media, cell phones, or compromise. Led by the enigmatic Apple and her collaborator Charles, the commune shows what is possible when people choose art over everything else. A beautiful vision is fragile in this world. When something unthinkable happens, what the commune has built together begins to bend under the weight of suspicion, myth, and the stories people tell about each other. Part portrait of a countercultural community, part mystery, The Art Commune is a dark, funny, underground relatioship drama about grief, belonging, and the horror that occurs when the thing people have built their lives around starts to become something else entirely. Set to shoot late August 2026. SUPPORT THE FILM: Your support goes directly toward making this film. Thank You credit — $20 (Click here to Support) Your name in the end credits. Nothing ships with this purchase. Pure devotion, purely appreciated. Devotee Bundle — $100 (Click here to Support) For the true believers. Includes: Associate Producer credit on The Art Commune · Exclusive Art Commune T-shirt (black, pink, or white; this design will never be reprinted) · Screen-used Mysterious VHS, a limited artifact made only for our producers that will appear on screen in the film itself, containing an original video plus unreleased short films by both Brewce Longo and Erica Schreiner on physical media for the first time · Art Commune canvas patch handmade by Taylor Duff at Video Arena Black shirt ships with a black VHS. Pink or white shirt ships with a white VHS. List your size (S–2XL) in the order notes or email bloodsickproductions@gmail.com before ordering. "Let's Join the Cult!" Executive Bundle — $500 (Click here to Support) Everything in the Devotee Bundle, plus: Executive Producer credit · On-screen role in The Art Commune (shoot dates late August; details closer to production) · Brewce Longo Blurays: Blood Sick Psychosis, A Corpse For Christmas, Coven of the Black Cube, Pumpkinman Lives, and the tour edition of Vick & Tarstar's Scarecrow Factory · Erica Schreiner's The Plastic Sea, a Blue Pear Poetry Zine from 2018 · Weird Vision Society Bluray BDr, the 2024 anthology directed by Ryan Petrillo, director of photography of The Art Commune · One original prop or artifact from Coven of the Black Cube (7 options available, including the Impalement Spike, the Breast Ripper, the Decorated Organ Box, Love Potion and Aqua di Luna Skin Cream set, Vi's Heart, the Surgery Set, and original Soundtrack Flier artwork by Mizz; large props are local pickup only) |
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