Outside Out

{{short description|2000 film by Mike Gordon}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Outside Out

| image = OutsideOutMovie.jpg

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| director = Mike Gordon{{Cite web |last=Jarnow |first=Jesse |date=2001-02-01 |title=From The Archives: Mike Gordon on Col. Bruce Hampton and Outside Out |url=https://jambands.com/features/2018/05/01/from-the-archives-mike-gordon-on-col-bruce-hampton-and-outside-out-feb-2001/ |access-date=2025-06-11 |website=Jambands |language=en-US}}

| producer = Jeff Lawson{{Cite web |last=Gordon |first=Mike |date=2000-11-09 |title=Outside Out (2000) |url=https://mike-gordon.com/projects/outside-out/ |access-date=2025-06-11 |website=Mike Gordon}}

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| starring = Mike Gordon
Bruce Hampton
Ashley Scott Shamp
Jimi Stout

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| cinematography = Mike Gordon

| editing = Mike Gordon{{Cite web |last=Budnick |first=Dean |date=2023-07-21 |title=Track By Track: Mike Gordon Finds New Flow with 'Flying Games' |url=https://relix.com/articles/detail/mike-gordon-flying-games/ |access-date=2025-06-11 |website=Relix Media |language=en-US}}

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| released = {{Film date|2000}}

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| language = English

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Outside Out is the first full-length feature film from Phish bassist Mike Gordon.{{Cite web |last=Dansby |first=Andrew |date=2000-11-14 |title=Phish Members Release Outside Projects |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/phish-members-release-outside-projects-255228/ |access-date=2025-06-11 |website=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}} It premiered at South by Southwest in 2000 and starred Jimi Stout, Col. Bruce Hampton, Ashley Scott Shamp, Gordon, and others.{{Cite book |last=Strong |first=Martin Charles |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Lights_Camera_Sound_Tracks/aSYKAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Outside+Out++Mike+Gordon&dq=Outside+Out++Mike+Gordon&printsec=frontcover |title=Lights, Camera, Sound Tracks |last2=Griffin |first2=Brendon |date=2008 |publisher=Canongate |isbn=978-1-84767-003-8 |pages=441 |language=en}}

The film revolves around the life of confused teenager Rick, who begins taking guitar lessons from Hampton.{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nVSvnTBzZGsC&pg=PA30&dq=Outside+Out++Mike+Gordon&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj_t8euxOmNAxWz4skDHR6QECUQ6AF6BAgEEAM#v=onepage&q=Outside%20Out%20%20Mike%20Gordon&f=false |title=CMJ New Music Report |date=2000-03-20 |publisher=CMJ Network, Inc. |pages=29 |language=en}} Hampton's unorthodox style of teaching infuriates Rick's parents, who insists he attend military school.{{Cite web |last=Jarnow |first=Jesse |date=2011-03-09 |title=The Threat of Vomit: A Review of Mike Gordon's Outside Out |url=https://jambands.com/the-loop/2011/03/09/the-threat-of-vomit-a-review-of-mike-gordon-s-outside-out/ |access-date=2025-06-11 |website=Jambands |language=en-US}} Rick later meets the guitarist of country music group "Ramble Dove" (Gordon), and the true bizarreness of the film begins to take shape.{{Cite web |last=Todd |first=Nate |date=2014-03-12 |title=Overstepping Out: Mike Gordon and the Philosophy of Out |url=http://listenheredenver.com/28380/overstepping-out-mike-gordon-and-the-philosophy-of-out/ |access-date=2025-06-11 |website=Listen Here Denver!}}

The movie features a mixture of abstract editing, psychedelic symbolic images, and music later featured on Gordon's companion album, Inside In.{{Cite web |last=Oksenhorn |first=Stewart |date=2011-03-11 |title=Phish bassist Mike Gordon in Aspen |url=https://www.aspentimes.com/news/phish-bassist-mike-gordon-in-aspen/ |access-date=2025-06-11 |website=www.aspentimes.com |language=en-US}}