Category Archives: subverting dominant paradigms

SOHO & Sebastian Horsley

While I was in graduate school at Central Saint Martins, I worked in a dingy little pub on the corner of Old Compton Street & Charing Cross Road that was fumbingly trying to reinvent itself as a drag cabaret hotspot. … Continue reading

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Crowdsourced funding campaign: The Yes Lab for Creative Activism

I love The Yes Men, “a genderless, loose-knit association of some 300 impostors worldwide who agree their way into the fortified compounds of commerce. Impersonating big-time criminals in order to publicly humiliate them, our targets are leaders and big corporations … Continue reading

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How small festivals are the future of meatspace film distribution: Thoughts 4 & 5

In January, I attended the Slamdance / Sundance extravaganza in Park City, Utah, helping produce the Slamdance, WorkBook Project & Open Video Alliance Filmmaker Summit.  While there, I participated in and listened to a lot of conversations about the shifting … Continue reading

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‘Unplug’, now in blog and online video form

Confirming my opinion that the next big online trend will be to turn the power switch to the off position, I bring you ‘Yelp (With Apologies to Allen Ginsberg)’ from filmmaker Tiffany Shlain (and everyone’s favorite cranky editor, Dalan McNabola). … Continue reading

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How small festivals are the future of meatspace film distribution: Thought 3

In January, I attended the Slamdance / Sundance extravaganza in Park City, Utah, helping produce the Slamdance, WorkBook Project & Open Video Alliance Filmmaker Summit.  While there, I participated in and listened to a lot of conversations about the shifting … Continue reading

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How small festivals are the future of meatspace film distribution: Thought 2

In January, I attended the Slamdance / Sundance extravaganza in Park City, Utah, helping produce the Slamdance, WorkBook Project & Open Video Alliance Filmmaker Summit.  While there, I participated in and listened to a lot of conversations about the shifting … Continue reading

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100,000 eyeballs to your film, in 3 days flat.

An important new weapon in the arsenal for filmmakers who are bucking the system and choosing to self-distribute, VODO is incredibly subversive. Its success, after all, is predicated on human generosity, not to mention the radical (and counter-intuitive) act of … Continue reading

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Eat, Eat

We screened this film at Silver Lake Film Festival’s Ultra Fabulous Beyond Drag showcase back in 2007. It’s totally fucked up.

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i have an idea, and it’ll solve road rage.

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