Outside Out

Mike Gordon	Matt Gizzard
Bruce Hampton	Himself
Ashley Scott Sharp	Bill Bault
Jimi Stout	Rick Bault
Elizabeth Combs Beglin
Col. Bruce Hampton
John Hartwell
Elena McSherry
Ashley Scott Shamp
Jim Stout
Jr. Rick Vaylou

Director	Mike Gordon
Producer	Jeff Lawson
Writer	Mike Gordon

A Film by Mike Gordon of Phish

Outside Out is the story of a boy, and a guitar, and his desire to be a true artist - one that is neither bound by convention nor the approval of his friends, family or a girl. Rick tries desperately to get into music school and avoid dad's plan: military academy. But, his playing isn't very good. As a last resort, he finds Col. Bruce Hampton, Ret., the peculiar guitar teacher who teaches students to "unlearn" everything they ever knew. With the music school auditions making his guitar playing worse and worse, Rick is forced to look inside his soul and outside his head to find out.

Mike Gordon is the bassist for the Vermont-based rock band Phish. This is his first full-length feature film, an experimental narrative slash mock-infomercial that screams softly with bizarreness. With a mixture of abstract editing, psychedelic slash symbolic images, and priceless scenes with the mystical music teacher Hampton, Outside Out keeps viewers both intrigued and baffled.