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Home Actor Mike Birbiglia HD Photos and Wallpapers February 2023 Mike Birbiglia Instagram - 11 years ago this week I was part of a movie called “Sleepwalk With Me” that premiered at Sundance Festival. It was based on a real life incident where I jumped through a second story window. When I look back on the shoot it feels so strange that I had this absurd impulse to re-enact this near death trauma from my own life but somehow this seemed right. When we got to the edit I felt like we were in big trouble. It seemed like there was no way to make a comedy out of what we had filmed because it was fundamentally so intense and dramatic and when we showed it to early test audiences there were *very few* laughs. At one point I said to our editor Geoff Richman (who now edits the @benstiller series Severance “what are we going to do?” as in “what are we going to do with this movie that doesn’t work which 150 people have just poured their hearts and souls into?” Geoff was so calm. He had made many films. This was my first. He said “We’ll hand in the film when it’s done.” At a certain point Geoff and my co-director @sethbarrish and producers @iraglass and @jacobjaffke figured out that the reason people weren’t laughing is that they didn’t know the protagonist was okay. Like… *is he dead now?* *Can we laugh?* *Will this be okay?* So during the edit we drove around and filmed monologues of me in the *present* driving in a car and speaking to camera saying “I know” and “I’m the future also” and other indicators that this would all work out in the end. We tested these out with new audiences. And they worked. There was laughter. It was a miracle. We showed it at Sundance and it won an award and was released by IFC and the response to it over the years has been so moving. I can’t thank everyone enough for supporting it. But if you’re an artist reading this or any kind of creator it’s worth remember Geoff’s advice to me when I thought the movie was a complete and total debacle: You don’t have to hand it in until it’s done. ❤️🎥 📸 by Kim Madilinsky and cinematography by Adam Beckman Sundance Film Festival

Mike Birbiglia Instagram – 11 years ago this week I was part of a movie called “Sleepwalk With Me” that premiered at Sundance Festival. It was based on a real life incident where I jumped through a second story window. When I look back on the shoot it feels so strange that I had this absurd impulse to re-enact this near death trauma from my own life but somehow this seemed right. When we got to the edit I felt like we were in big trouble. It seemed like there was no way to make a comedy out of what we had filmed because it was fundamentally so intense and dramatic and when we showed it to early test audiences there were *very few* laughs. At one point I said to our editor Geoff Richman (who now edits the @benstiller series Severance “what are we going to do?” as in “what are we going to do with this movie that doesn’t work which 150 people have just poured their hearts and souls into?” Geoff was so calm. He had made many films. This was my first. He said “We’ll hand in the film when it’s done.” At a certain point Geoff and my co-director @sethbarrish and producers @iraglass and @jacobjaffke figured out that the reason people weren’t laughing is that they didn’t know the protagonist was okay. Like… *is he dead now?* *Can we laugh?* *Will this be okay?* So during the edit we drove around and filmed monologues of me in the *present* driving in a car and speaking to camera saying “I know” and “I’m the future also” and other indicators that this would all work out in the end. We tested these out with new audiences. And they worked. There was laughter. It was a miracle. We showed it at Sundance and it won an award and was released by IFC and the response to it over the years has been so moving. I can’t thank everyone enough for supporting it. But if you’re an artist reading this or any kind of creator it’s worth remember Geoff’s advice to me when I thought the movie was a complete and total debacle: You don’t have to hand it in until it’s done. ❤️🎥 📸 by Kim Madilinsky and cinematography by Adam Beckman Sundance Film Festival

Mike Birbiglia Instagram - 11 years ago this week I was part of a movie called “Sleepwalk With Me” that premiered at Sundance Festival. It was based on a real life incident where I jumped through a second story window. When I look back on the shoot it feels so strange that I had this absurd impulse to re-enact this near death trauma from my own life but somehow this seemed right. When we got to the edit I felt like we were in big trouble. It seemed like there was no way to make a comedy out of what we had filmed because it was fundamentally so intense and dramatic and when we showed it to early test audiences there were *very few* laughs. At one point I said to our editor Geoff Richman (who now edits the @benstiller series Severance “what are we going to do?” as in “what are we going to do with this movie that doesn’t work which 150 people have just poured their hearts and souls into?” Geoff was so calm. He had made many films. This was my first. He said “We’ll hand in the film when it’s done.” At a certain point Geoff and my co-director @sethbarrish and producers @iraglass and @jacobjaffke figured out that the reason people weren’t laughing is that they didn’t know the protagonist was okay. Like… *is he dead now?* *Can we laugh?* *Will this be okay?* So during the edit we drove around and filmed monologues of me in the *present* driving in a car and speaking to camera saying “I know” and “I’m the future also” and other indicators that this would all work out in the end. We tested these out with new audiences. And they worked. There was laughter. It was a miracle. We showed it at Sundance and it won an award and was released by IFC and the response to it over the years has been so moving. I can’t thank everyone enough for supporting it. But if you’re an artist reading this or any kind of creator it’s worth remember Geoff’s advice to me when I thought the movie was a complete and total debacle: You don’t have to hand it in until it’s done. ❤️🎥 📸 by Kim Madilinsky and cinematography by Adam Beckman Sundance Film Festival

Mike Birbiglia Instagram – 11 years ago this week I was part of a movie called “Sleepwalk With Me” that premiered at Sundance Festival. It was based on a real life incident where I jumped through a second story window. When I look back on the shoot it feels so strange that I had this absurd impulse to re-enact this near death trauma from my own life but somehow this seemed right. When we got to the edit I felt like we were in big trouble. It seemed like there was no way to make a comedy out of what we had filmed because it was fundamentally so intense and dramatic and when we showed it to early test audiences there were *very few* laughs. At one point I said to our editor Geoff Richman (who now edits the @benstiller series Severance “what are we going to do?” as in “what are we going to do with this movie that doesn’t work which 150 people have just poured their hearts and souls into?” Geoff was so calm. He had made many films. This was my first. He said “We’ll hand in the film when it’s done.” At a certain point Geoff and my co-director @sethbarrish and producers @iraglass and @jacobjaffke figured out that the reason people weren’t laughing is that they didn’t know the protagonist was okay. Like…

*is he dead now?*

*Can we laugh?*

*Will this be okay?*

So during the edit we drove around and filmed monologues of me in the *present* driving in a car and speaking to camera saying “I know” and “I’m the future also” and other indicators that this would all work out in the end. We tested these out with new audiences. And they worked. There was laughter. It was a miracle. We showed it at Sundance and it won an award and was released by IFC and the response to it over the years has been so moving. I can’t thank everyone enough for supporting it. But if you’re an artist reading this or any kind of creator it’s worth remember Geoff’s advice to me when I thought the movie was a complete and total debacle: You don’t have to hand it in until it’s done. ❤️🎥

📸 by Kim Madilinsky and cinematography by Adam Beckman Sundance Film Festival | Posted on 23/Jan/2023 06:15:24

Mike Birbiglia Instagram – 11 years ago this week I was part of a movie called “Sleepwalk With Me” that premiered at Sundance Festival. It was based on a real life incident where I jumped through a second story window. When I look back on the shoot it feels so strange that I had this absurd impulse to re-enact this near death trauma from my own life but somehow this seemed right. When we got to the edit I felt like we were in big trouble. It seemed like there was no way to make a comedy out of what we had filmed because it was fundamentally so intense and dramatic and when we showed it to early test audiences there were *very few* laughs. At one point I said to our editor Geoff Richman (who now edits the @benstiller series Severance “what are we going to do?” as in “what are we going to do with this movie that doesn’t work which 150 people have just poured their hearts and souls into?” Geoff was so calm. He had made many films. This was my first. He said “We’ll hand in the film when it’s done.” At a certain point Geoff and my co-director @sethbarrish and producers @iraglass and @jacobjaffke figured out that the reason people weren’t laughing is that they didn’t know the protagonist was okay. Like… *is he dead now?* *Can we laugh?* *Will this be okay?* So during the edit we drove around and filmed monologues of me in the *present* driving in a car and speaking to camera saying “I know” and “I’m the future also” and other indicators that this would all work out in the end. We tested these out with new audiences. And they worked. There was laughter. It was a miracle. We showed it at Sundance and it won an award and was released by IFC and the response to it over the years has been so moving. I can’t thank everyone enough for supporting it. But if you’re an artist reading this or any kind of creator it’s worth remember Geoff’s advice to me when I thought the movie was a complete and total debacle: You don’t have to hand it in until it’s done. ❤️🎥 📸 by Kim Madilinsky and cinematography by Adam Beckman Sundance Film Festival
Mike Birbiglia Instagram – 18 years ago today I jumped through a second story window of a La Quinta Inn in Walla Walla, Washington and lived to tell jokes about it. I made a show about it. A movie. A book. I remember thinking at the time “if I don’t take photos of what just happened no one is going to believe it.” Here are a couple photos that are also in the credits of my film “Sleepwalk With Me” (produced by @iraglass pictured in car) as well as some extra photos like the one I took from the stage I performed at that night at Whitman College. It’s a very lucky thing to be able to create art from pain. Living through this experience taught me a lot about the ways in which I could stretch my own comedy. Thanks for letting me do that. There’s some really cool news coming this year about “Sleepwalk With Me”. Stay tuned. (p.s. that plaque really exists in what is now I believe a comfort inn but I recently discovered it’s off by a week.) For context the first half of the photos are from Walla Walla Washington and the second half of the photos are the filming of the movie “Sleepwalk With Me” loosed base on the events which premiered at @sundanceorg film fest in 2012. (Avail on @ifcfilms and all the places you can rent films.) 🎥 #sundancefilmfestival #sleepwalkwithme #wallawalla ONE MORE THING— the original short story version of it was told on @mothstories as well as @thisamerlife. 🎶❤️

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