Independent Project

Cowboy Yoga

The first—and worst—film Jason ever made. He literally bought cameras and cheap lav mics because he and some friends thought the idea was so good and so worth it. But they also, for some reason, thought parody meant religiously following ALL the conventions of what you’re making fun of, including the pacing of real yoga videos … But then Prana picked it up once on their blog and they got 30k views in a few days. Though in full disclosure, almost no one finished it. So far, it’s had almost 200k views—er—starts … go figure.

So, here you go … Log line:

Two cowboys make an instructional yoga video for other cowboys, in painful real-time with painfully real yoga music and painfully fake accents.

Written and directed by Hal Clifford and Lou Bendrick; Camera work, editing, and mediocre post-production by Jason Houston. Premiered at the Berkshire International Film Festival in 2009 and played—to our embarrassment—in too many other festivals.

10 long long minutes.