![]() He had already come out of the experience of doing “Finding Frances,” where they had actually ended up making a movie, but it ended up on Comedy Central as this sort of nebulous thing that was hard to classify, but truly was a film. Honestly, after showing it to people as a rough, rough, rough cut, one person in particular, Nathan Fielder, who we all know … Then as we started making it, in the edit room we realized that we had way more, and that it really all worked, and that it felt just like a movie. We proceeded with the idea that it would exist on the Adult Swim app or site as another thing that was like the trial, which was kind of hard to classify. So, the idea to treat it as a documentary that someone else might make came into being. We thought it would be fun to follow up the trial with another kind of media that followed my character seeking revenge against the district attorney and exploring who that hung juror was going to be. The trial was the first thing that felt like a different way to approach the universe and a way that On Cinema could exist outside of our control a little bit, as far as the way the viewer watched it. With On Cinema, you have the podcast, the TV show, the web series, the music, the specials - at what point did you, Gregg, and Eric decide to toss a movie into the mix? ![]() Heidecker recently hopped on the phone with Vulture to chat about why the movie isn’t just for On Cinema fanatics, how Nathan Fielder helped shape the film, and why he can’t stand when publications label him an “anti-humorist.” ( The trial itself streamed over multiple hours on Adult Swim’s website.) ![]() Instead, this week sees the release of Mister America, a feature film that forms yet another constellation in the sprawling On Cinema universe that he’s created with Gregg Turkington and director Eric Notarnicola over the last decade.Ī mockumentary supposedly made by a student filmmaker, Mister America finds Heidecker’s character campaigning to be the district attorney of San Bernardino county, following a trial where he was dubiously cleared of over a dozen counts of murder after a hung jury resulted in a mistrial. With a world tour with Eric Wareheim on the way and the 11th (!) season of his web series, On Cinema at the Cinema, currently streaming on, you’d be forgiven for thinking Tim Heidecker is gearing up for a long vacation. ![]()
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