What do you get when you cross a 2-ton granite block with a student sculptor suffering from a 2-ton creative block? The amusing gist of the independent Minneapolis film Nobody. Sam Rosen (pictured) stars as Lindeman, the befuddled art-school student who's struggling to find inspiration for his final project. The search finds him fraternizing with a goat (also pictured), protesting with vegans and looking for love. The quirky film is now out on DVD, but you'll have to do a search of your own to find it. The Minnesota filmmakers — who include director Rob Perez, writing partner and composer Ryan Miller, and executive producer Josh Hartnett — explain that they skipped the traditional film-festival circuit and self-distributed the film after test screenings found that the target audience fell between ages 14 and 26. The DIY approach carried over to the DVD ($20), which is available only through the Nobody website ($5 shipping) and at Electric Fetus in Minneapolis. The disc's expectedly fun features include more goat time, a featurette contending that Hartnett's house is haunted and commentary that, they say, offers "marginal insight about the film."
