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  • Exercises For Developing Your Film Taste

    I originally put together this series of exercises in order to prepare my summer intern to work on curatorial projects, but I think these could be useful for a lot of people so I wanted to share more widely! These are specifically geared towards film programmers, but I think they tie into a crucial set

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  • a plea for piracy

    As an independent filmmaker of a marginalized identity, I ask from the bottom of my heart that you please pirate my work. Share it, indiscriminately, with as many people as possible. Spread it through larger networks than I could every hope to personally maintain. Make it culturally relevant enough that people all over the world

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  • one second 4

    Fourth installment in the One Second series. Each piece is in 25 parts, composed of 24 still frames and a one-second video loop made of each of the frames. 24 frames: Video (you can right click on the video player and select “loop” to get the full effect) I think with this one I finally

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  • One Second 3

    Third installment in the One Second series. Each piece is in 25 parts, composed of 24 still frames and a one-second video loop made of each of the frames. 24 frames: Video (you can right click on the video player and select “loop” to get the full effect, but just a note that if you

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  • One Second 2

    I’m doing a new project of experimental video/image called the One Second Series. Each piece is in 25 parts, composed of 24 still frames and a one-second video loop made of each of the frames. Here’s the second one I did, called One Second 2. 24 frames: Video (you can right click on the video

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  • Premise vs. Project: on deciding which ideas to actualize

    I have a ton of ideas for movie premises, more than I could ever possibly hope to make. So how do I decide what to actually follow through on? The answer has to do with what makes something a viable film project that I could reasonably achieve and feel good about bringing into the world.

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  • planning low/no budget screenings (with artist permission)

    Someone sent me the following blog post request and I thought it was an excellent prompt! Huge disclaimer that I have only been doing this seriously for about a year and am by no means an expert. This is all stuff I’ve figured out myself or picked up from various jobs and roles in the

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  • How I got people to care about my short film

    INTRODUCTION In general, short films in the US serve the very narrow function of being a pay-to-play work sample for emerging talent. They mostly get distributed amongst industry insiders for the “currency” of prestige, rarely so much as break even let alone turn a profit, and are not typically spread amongst the general public as

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  • Free Yr Dick – Program Notes

    Last summer, I threw my own hometown premiere for my short film Bros Before. The film was largely overlooked by the biggest LGBT film festivals and rejected from all the Chicago fests I applied to. When it did get programmed, it was often put into shorts blocks with a bunch of trauma porn and inspo

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  • Fred Halsted @ the Music Box (intro speech)

    Last Saturday I had the pleasure of co-presenting two Fred Halsted films – “The Sex Garage” and “LA Plays Itself” – at a midnight screening at the Music Box. The event sold out and we were able to add a second screening on April 15th. Sadly I can’t be there to give a live intro

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