Super Spoof on "Art Films" Made on Super Small Budget "It is possible to make a feature in a special way, and on a very small budget." This statement by a new filmmaker, Robert Robert, who has just completed a new low-budget satirical movie Erotic Salad, which uses off-Broadway actors, and features Danny Landau in the role of Martin Kleshay, addicted to fantasies of being a Playboy type photographer. "We simply set out to make a low-budget parody of all the over-serious 'Art films' and corny 'erotic' movies that play on 42nd Street," said Mr. Robert. The young writer-director describes the film as "a kind of 'Mad Magazine' turned into a movie. Theatre of the absurd maybe. Definitely camp." "The peculiar thing is that it ended up at an established sex theatre along with exactly the kind of film it makes fun of, some outrageous 'skinflick' about drug-crazed lesbians. Beautiful irony." Mr. Robert said that this was his first attempt at a feature film and that it was made on a very small budget (most of it was shot on a budget of $2,500). "We learned some important things from it. We just approached the film like a painter might approach a big canvas, and it worked. It's our own personal Sistine Chapel." "Most important, we wanted Erotic Salad to be a portfolio. We did all the writing and editing ourselves, with very little money, and we could do it again. And much better now - just by applying what we learned, and developing and expanding the successful things in it." (Reprinted from Show Business - March, 1970)