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Ben Mekler
@benmekler.bsky.social
· Nov 15
If u wanna be happy the rest of ur life
Never make a prairie falcon ur wife
They need a moderate altitude
To catch burrowing owls for food
Never make a prairie falcon ur wife
They need a moderate altitude
To catch burrowing owls for food
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I just watched this AND IT IS FANTASTIC.
December 19, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I just watched this AND IT IS FANTASTIC.
SEE YOU AT THE GODDAMN MOVIES
December 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM
SEE YOU AT THE GODDAMN MOVIES
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I can't imagine a more exciting inaugural @letterboxd.social Video Store rental!
It Ends is now available to watch on the @letterboxd.social video store! Please watch our movie thanks! boxd.it/SBUi
It Ends (2025)
A group of recent grads head out on a late night drive for grub, hoping to enjoy one final hangout before their paths diverge. Instead, they accidentally turn onto a never-ending, two-lane hellscape s...
boxd.it
December 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I can't imagine a more exciting inaugural @letterboxd.social Video Store rental!
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This is a really great high concept movie. A group of college friends take a wrong turn and end up on a road that doesn't seem to end. Like ever. A really great premise taken to its best possible conclusion. Loved it.
It Ends is now available to watch on the @letterboxd.social video store! Please watch our movie thanks! boxd.it/SBUi
It Ends (2025)
A group of recent grads head out on a late night drive for grub, hoping to enjoy one final hangout before their paths diverge. Instead, they accidentally turn onto a never-ending, two-lane hellscape s...
boxd.it
December 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
This is a really great high concept movie. A group of college friends take a wrong turn and end up on a road that doesn't seem to end. Like ever. A really great premise taken to its best possible conclusion. Loved it.
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I know what I’m watching tonight!
It Ends is now available to watch on the @letterboxd.social video store! Please watch our movie thanks! boxd.it/SBUi
It Ends (2025)
A group of recent grads head out on a late night drive for grub, hoping to enjoy one final hangout before their paths diverge. Instead, they accidentally turn onto a never-ending, two-lane hellscape s...
boxd.it
December 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I know what I’m watching tonight!
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The film I’m watching tonight. You should be watching it too.
It Ends is now available to watch on the @letterboxd.social video store! Please watch our movie thanks! boxd.it/SBUi
It Ends (2025)
A group of recent grads head out on a late night drive for grub, hoping to enjoy one final hangout before their paths diverge. Instead, they accidentally turn onto a never-ending, two-lane hellscape s...
boxd.it
December 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The film I’m watching tonight. You should be watching it too.
It Ends is now available to watch on the @letterboxd.social video store! Please watch our movie thanks! boxd.it/SBUi
It Ends (2025)
A group of recent grads head out on a late night drive for grub, hoping to enjoy one final hangout before their paths diverge. Instead, they accidentally turn onto a never-ending, two-lane hellscape s...
boxd.it
December 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
It Ends is now available to watch on the @letterboxd.social video store! Please watch our movie thanks! boxd.it/SBUi
I directed this special! Watch it now please thanks!
🚨 Dropout Presents: Demi Adejuyigbe Is Going To Do One (1) Backflip is out now!
@electrolemon.bsky.social
@electrolemon.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I directed this special! Watch it now please thanks!
Launched a Mekler Family Print Shop, all proceeds go towards rebuilding our house. We will close the shop in two weeks so we have time to fill orders before the holidays.
Photos by me in 35mm and 120, by Kirby in 35 and digital.
Love you, share with friends, thanks! www.kirbymekler.com/store
Photos by me in 35mm and 120, by Kirby in 35 and digital.
Love you, share with friends, thanks! www.kirbymekler.com/store
Mekler Prints - Kirby Mekler Portfolio
Photography prints by Kirby Mekler and Ben Mekler. After losing their home in the Eaton wildfire they decided to raise money by selling prints of their photos (mostly travel, film, nature and food).
www.kirbymekler.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Launched a Mekler Family Print Shop, all proceeds go towards rebuilding our house. We will close the shop in two weeks so we have time to fill orders before the holidays.
Photos by me in 35mm and 120, by Kirby in 35 and digital.
Love you, share with friends, thanks! www.kirbymekler.com/store
Photos by me in 35mm and 120, by Kirby in 35 and digital.
Love you, share with friends, thanks! www.kirbymekler.com/store
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hello. my comedy special, Demi Adejuyigbe Is Going To Do One (1) Backflip, comes to Dropout November 19th ✨🔥🎷🐵🤖🇮🇹
A new series of Dropout Presents specials are coming soon to Dropout!
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October 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
hello. my comedy special, Demi Adejuyigbe Is Going To Do One (1) Backflip, comes to Dropout November 19th ✨🔥🎷🐵🤖🇮🇹
I directed Demi’s special and had the best time. You will too. Please watch thanks!
A new series of Dropout Presents specials are coming soon to Dropout!
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October 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I directed Demi’s special and had the best time. You will too. Please watch thanks!
Anyone else get raptured? Been alone up here with God for like two days. He keeps trying to get me to play Jackbox even though I told Him like fifty times that it’s not that fun with two people
September 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Anyone else get raptured? Been alone up here with God for like two days. He keeps trying to get me to play Jackbox even though I told Him like fifty times that it’s not that fun with two people
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Today we’re talking about the 2007 superhero comedy Underdog with special guest @benmekler.bsky.social.
Plus: the expansive Air Bud universe, Jim Belushi’s dog-centric career, and being the Amy Adams of the furry awards.
Listen here 🎧: podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/u...
Plus: the expansive Air Bud universe, Jim Belushi’s dog-centric career, and being the Amy Adams of the furry awards.
Listen here 🎧: podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/u...
September 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Today we’re talking about the 2007 superhero comedy Underdog with special guest @benmekler.bsky.social.
Plus: the expansive Air Bud universe, Jim Belushi’s dog-centric career, and being the Amy Adams of the furry awards.
Listen here 🎧: podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/u...
Plus: the expansive Air Bud universe, Jim Belushi’s dog-centric career, and being the Amy Adams of the furry awards.
Listen here 🎧: podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/u...
So true
For episode 15, writer and producer @benmekler.bsky.social joins us to talk about the 2007 superhero comedy Underdog.
Consider getting fixed before tuning in on 9/17!
Consider getting fixed before tuning in on 9/17!
September 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
So true
completely forgot this was a website
August 15, 2025 at 4:47 AM
completely forgot this was a website
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Look everyone @benmekler.bsky.social, @chrisamick.bsky.social, and myself want to work on this thing together. Someone help us get this film made animated or not. You know it would be fun.
Everyone contacting me about Root as an animated property: That's cool and all but I still think it would be much more niche and way cooler if we did it with creepy puppets like the Dark Crystal.
August 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Look everyone @benmekler.bsky.social, @chrisamick.bsky.social, and myself want to work on this thing together. Someone help us get this film made animated or not. You know it would be fun.
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happy birthday to @benmekler.bsky.social. a good gift might be donating to the gofundme from when his house burned down in the altadena fire and he lost everything!!! www.gofundme.com/f/ben-and-ki...
Donate to Ben and Kirby lost everything in the Eaton Fire, organized by Olga L
I'm heartbroken to learn that my friend Ben and his wife Kirby lost their home … Olga L needs your support for Ben and Kirby lost everything in the Eaton Fire
www.gofundme.com
May 30, 2025 at 11:53 PM
happy birthday to @benmekler.bsky.social. a good gift might be donating to the gofundme from when his house burned down in the altadena fire and he lost everything!!! www.gofundme.com/f/ben-and-ki...
Tempt not a desperate man
I think @benmekler.bsky.social should make a bonus episode of Mortal Podkast creating a fictional history and backstory for Floyd
May 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Tempt not a desperate man
No amusement as a parent will ever match the time my three year old daughter learned that Pixies is one of my favorite bands, enthusiastically asked to listen to them, and realized the disparity between reality and what she’d imagined
April 29, 2025 at 11:40 PM
No amusement as a parent will ever match the time my three year old daughter learned that Pixies is one of my favorite bands, enthusiastically asked to listen to them, and realized the disparity between reality and what she’d imagined
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It’s a simple yet haunting work that’s well-shot, written, and acted across the board, especially for a first feature. It also gets better as it goes along, finding surprising resonances that get at something truthful about how it is we find meaning in a bleak world 📽️
theplaylist.net/it-ends-revi...
theplaylist.net/it-ends-revi...
‘It Ends’ Review: The Kids Are Not Alright In Alex Ullom’s Evocative Existential Horror Debut [SXSW]
Alexander Ullom's fascinating drama/existential hororr, 'It Ends' about fear, dread and the unknown makes him a instant filmmaker to watch.
theplaylist.net
March 14, 2025 at 10:37 PM
It’s a simple yet haunting work that’s well-shot, written, and acted across the board, especially for a first feature. It also gets better as it goes along, finding surprising resonances that get at something truthful about how it is we find meaning in a bleak world 📽️
theplaylist.net/it-ends-revi...
theplaylist.net/it-ends-revi...
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IT ENDS: Alex Ullom’s existential horror debut about a group of young friends who get trapped on a never-ending road is the discovery of this year’s #SXSW. It marks him as a filmmaker to watch & is a work I still can't stop thinking about 📽️
My final #SXSW2025 review: theplaylist.net/it-ends-revi...
My final #SXSW2025 review: theplaylist.net/it-ends-revi...
March 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
IT ENDS: Alex Ullom’s existential horror debut about a group of young friends who get trapped on a never-ending road is the discovery of this year’s #SXSW. It marks him as a filmmaker to watch & is a work I still can't stop thinking about 📽️
My final #SXSW2025 review: theplaylist.net/it-ends-revi...
My final #SXSW2025 review: theplaylist.net/it-ends-revi...
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Doing a gaggle of screeners as SXSW closes but my best of fest so far:
The Baltimorons
Hallow Road
It Ends
The Rivals of Amziah King
The Baltimorons
Hallow Road
It Ends
The Rivals of Amziah King
March 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Doing a gaggle of screeners as SXSW closes but my best of fest so far:
The Baltimorons
Hallow Road
It Ends
The Rivals of Amziah King
The Baltimorons
Hallow Road
It Ends
The Rivals of Amziah King
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SXSW kicks off today with a slew of exciting premieres, including the genre-bender IT ENDS, which writer/director Alexander Ullom calls his "horror hangout" movie. The story behind getting it made is pretty wild, too.
‘It Ends’ Filmmaker Discusses Genre-Bending “Horror Hangout” Debut [SXSW Interview]
One of the standouts at this year’s SXSW film festival, at least so far, is writer/director/editor Alexander Ullom‘s feature debut It Ends, an audacious, genre-bending road trip nightmare with a lot o...
bloody-disgusting.com
March 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
SXSW kicks off today with a slew of exciting premieres, including the genre-bender IT ENDS, which writer/director Alexander Ullom calls his "horror hangout" movie. The story behind getting it made is pretty wild, too.
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IT ENDS (2025; d. Alexander Ullom): @sxsw.com Friends don’t let friends drive endlessly. But you need friends! Likable characters, terrific performances, empathetic direction. Audience loved it too!
March 8, 2025 at 2:08 AM
IT ENDS (2025; d. Alexander Ullom): @sxsw.com Friends don’t let friends drive endlessly. But you need friends! Likable characters, terrific performances, empathetic direction. Audience loved it too!