Co-written and co-directed with Mark Manlove

Is That Your Name and Number Allen Vincent?

A preacher who drinks and beats his family hears God on the toilet, and a stranger keeps asking "Is that your name and number, Allen Vincent?" Draft script April 1996; trailer July 1996; final cut August 1998.

1996–98 · 10:27 · PXL-2000 (Allen Vincent's point of view) and film · a Single-Handed Films production by Matt Sesow

The trailer, 1996

In his words

this will be a film about a preacher/father that beats the hell out of his family, drinks, johns, and is basically a bad ass. he preaches to the flock, and is a bad man outside (?) the church. film will end with him doing something "good", unitentionally that earns him respect/goodness, despite his other goings on.

Credits

Screenplay

Matt Sesow, Mark Manlove

Direction

Matt Sesow, Mark Manlove

Editing

Matt Sesow

Gaffers

Jason Levy, Richard Schmidt, Carole McCallum, Suzanne Manlove

Allen's wife; Allen's mom

Melanie Scott — founder of the Washington Psychotronic Film Society

Allen's children

Eric Richards

Boy on bike

Mark Manlove

Notes

• Matt's planning notes: use the PXL-2000 "for his perspective (allen vincent... from the documentary 'california's 3rd reich')... and use super 8 (color) for the rest of the film."
• The full April 1996 draft script survives in Matt's archive.

From the script

THE PONDERER PREDICTS (opening)
(music from the 50's style b movie, violins, no vocal)

ponderer: "greetings my friend.
we are all interested in the future for that is where you and i... are going to spend the rest of our lives.
and remember my friend, future events such as thessse .. will effect you, in the future.
you are interested in the unknown.... the mysteriousss, the unexplainable... that is why you are here.
and now for the first time, we are bringing to you, the full story of what happened on that fateful day.
we are giving you all the evidence..., based only on the secret testimony, of the miserable souls,... who survived this terrifying ordeal.
the incidents, the places.. my friend we cannot keep this a secret any longer.
let us punish the guilty, let us reward the innocent.
my friend, can your stand the shocking facts ...
YOU, have been warned!....."
(dog barks)

Matt Sesow and Mark Manlove, draft of April 1996.

Cite this page: “Is That Your Name and Number Allen Vincent?,” Matt Sesow Career Chronicle, history.sesow.com/films/is-that-your-name-and-number-allen-vincent.html (updated 2026-10-16). Films © Matt Sesow. Sources: Matt Sesow’s 1990s filmography notes and scripts, the films’ title and end cards, and Matt Sesow’s own answers (October 2026). Do you have a flyer, listing or photo from a screening? sesow@sesow.com