Killing Someone Is The Most Fun I’ve Ever Had With My Pants On
“Denny is a master of laughing through tears.”
— Bust Magazine
Drew Denny’s first feature film is an adaptation of a performance artwork she presented on Father’s Day 2011 in memory of her dad. Shot on super 16mm and digital, The Most Fun I’ve Ever Had With My Pants On follows two childhood girlfriends Andy and Liv who reunite to scatter Andy’s dad’s ashes from LA to Austin where Liv will audition for the role of a vixen spy in a noir film. Between performing mini-funerals in surreal southwestern landscapes, the girls practice being bad! Hilarious dialog, military cross-dressing, an incredible indie soundtrack, and performances by Sarah Hagan (Freaks and Geeks, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and writer/director Drew Denny elicit lots of laughter and a few tears in this mixed media dark comedy that interweaves autobiography, documentary, fiction and camp.
“A heartfelt fearless leap into autobiographical storytelling…”
“Like a good dream, it leaves you enchanted… a strikingly polished effort from a first-time independent filmmaker”
“The film rebels.”
— Austin Chronicle
Live Performance
Killing Someone is the Most Fun I’ve Ever Had With My Pants On
For the closing of an exhibition entitled Tears and Ecstasy, Drew Denny created a multi-media re-enactment of her father’s death in three acts. She began by inviting audience members to compete in a chugging contest, enlisting the unsuspecting participants to play the parts of her father, the intern who told him he had three weeks to live, and his ex-Army hospice nurse who said it was an honor to wipe the ass of a Vietnam vet.
The performance featured video projection of hospital flowers and Denny’s late father’s young beauty queens, live musical performance of songs Denny wrote while caring for her father, spontaneous theater, a “mammory foam” smothering pillow shaped like two large breasts, and a singalong of Swing Low led by Denny’s father via Skype from beyond the grave.
