Directed by Michael M. Bilandic

Factory 25

Cinematography by Sean Price Williams

Music by Paul Grimstad

Starring Jason Grisell, Theodore Bouloukos, Owen Kline, Keith Paulson and Stephen Gurewitz

Festival premiere Indie Memphis Film Festival

Theatrical premiere Cinema Village NYC

Sound design, sound edit, 5.1 mix. Feature film.

Jobe, a mysterious middle-aged rollerblader, spends his days selling drugs to an eclectic mix of downtown weirdos. When he gets the call to to make a special delivery to his favorite actor he’s completely starstruck. What starts off as an exciting encounter with an A-list celebrity quickly devolves into a nightmarishly comedic trainwreck when the actor dies and Jobe is forced to flee into the night. Afraid and confused, he blades around the streets of lower Manhattan. Dodging paparazzi, police, a cinephilic doomsday prepper, a disturbed comedian, heartbroken superfans, and his raver roommate, he fights to clear his name – all while entertaining his mom who is visiting from out of town! Jobe’z World is a no-budget descent into the worlds of after hours freakery and existential rollerblading.

PRESS

“Their interactions are self-consciously grunge-poetic and flashily downbeat. They are punctuated by Jobe’s mordant voice-over ruminations and a soundtrack adorned with low-frequency sonic magma, suggesting interference from the beyond.”

–The New Yorker

“The movies of Michael M. Bilandic miraculously manage to showcase the joy of being alive and in New York City, of unexpected interactions with random weirdos and haphazard nocturnal journeys to nowhere, alongside the utter despair of being human. You leave a Bilandic movie relaxed and smiling but with the very concrete understanding that being alive is a total disaster. His latest film, Jobe’z World, opening January 11th at Cinema Village in NYC, is no exception.”

–The Brooklyn Rail