Damon Packard

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Damon Packard (b. May 4, 1967) is an underground American Film director.

Packard spent his teens and twenties working on experimental shorts while supporting himself variously as a movie theatre usher and wrist-watch salesman. After his grandmother died, he spent the money she'd willed him on Reflections of Evil (2002), a long treatise on contemporary American paranoia, intercut with B-movie footage and TV promos from the early seventies, and featuring Packard himself as an obese, overwrought watch salesman growing larger with each reel. Packard made 62,000 DVD copies of the film available for free, as well as sending thousands of them them to celebrities whose reactions were hilariously recorded on his website. (www.reflectionsofevil.com) His Reflections spoof of a young Steven Spielberg, a director he claimed to admire, was matched by his later assault on George Lucas in The Untitled Star Wars Mokumentary (2003), in which he intercut actual footage of Lucas with staged shots of disgruntled Lucas employees. A cult hero to underground film devotees, Packard remains obscure to the public at large while continuing to turn out his odd pastiches that some regard as genius and others as self-indulgent bores.

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