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Paperback: Prisoners of the Printed Page and the Frayed Aesthetics of ‘The Timekeepers of Eternity’ (2021) - Split Tooth Media Presented on crumpled and torn paper, 'The Timekeepers of Eternity' is a re-adaptation of Stephen King's 'The Langoliers.'

Presented on crumpled and torn paper, ‘The Timekeepers of Eternity’ is a re-adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘The Langoliers’ that resembles a story being devoured as it passes

I have no political ambitions.

How Bruce Baillie made All My Life - one roll of film! Inspiring. #experimentalfilm #videoessay

The Way Things Go is a work of absolute machined precision. Check out our video essay about it. Below is an excerpt!

Thanks to Daniel Gorman for recommending us among such distinguished publications over on Twitter! We want to draw attention to the incredible work being done at Ultra Dogme and Stephen Broomer's video essays over at @artandtrash.bsky.social

Hard at work on my newest series, Northern Light, on Canadian cinema. It’ll be my most traditional and straightforward series yet - but by these standards, that means, get ready for near-death experiences, docudramas about nude cults, and Lacanian interpretations of hoser/loser masterpieces.

On Thursday night at Ad Hoc, I presented four documentaries on art by Jim Davis. You can watch the whole programme, intro and films, at @artandtrash.bsky.social’s Patreon and YouTube channels. The Dynamic Arts: Documentaries by Jim Davis
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Beautiful Dreamers: Lost and Found in the Forbidden Zone — Art & Trash Through the course of the 1970s, Richard Elfman led the avant-garde surrealist street theatre troupe and band The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo. In 1978, Elfman would make Forbidden Zone, a featu...

Beautiful Dreamers, our video essay about Richard Elfman’s Forbidden Zone, was first published in text form in Bright Lights Film Journal.

I’d like to be added, both as Art & Trash and as @stephenbroomer.bsky.social - thanks Katie.

Discreet Charms: The Last Slumber Party and the Order of Dreams — Art & Trash Made in suburban New Orleans in 1984, Stephen Tyler's The Last Slumber Party is an exceptional slasher: its characters occupy an oneiric space where dreams and other digressions challenge the asserted...

Check out our episode on The Last Slumber Party as a work of vernacular surrealism! Stephen Tyler’s film has since been released on home video by the American Genre Film Archive.

The Birth of New Wisdom: Christmas on Earth, an Impossible Reconstruction — Art & Trash Barbara Rubin, at 18 years old, made Christmas on Earth  as a challenge to the frigid, oppressive society in which she had come of age. A ward of Jonas Mekas and a major force in her own right i...

On taboo, anachronism, the reconstruction of evanescent cinema, and the bountiful well of lust...just in time for the holidays.

Begging to Be Born: Dreaming Together in Storm De Hirsch’s The Tattooed Man — Art & Trash In 1969, De Hirsch received a grant from the American Film Institute to make a film adaptation of her poem, “The Tattooed Man.” The resulting film renders the experience of a dream, imagined as the co...

On Storm De Hirsch’s The Tattooed Man.

On Marie Menken's Lights, "a Christmas nocturne: it is akin to those carols and fables that promise charity, peace and the milk of human kindness flowing anonymous under cover of darkness, kindling in the hearth of this one prophetic night." www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-6_...

"I won't need to keep pouring my creative juices into these DVD commentaries, that, let's be honest, no one but you was ever gonna hear."

Now available - our video essay on beatnik glory, the hipster archetype and collage filmmaking - Rambler: Spoofing the Avant-Garde in Jane Conger Belson's Odds & Ends.

Our disc of Home for Christmas includes Notes from Home: Getting Personal in Rick Hancox's Home for Christmas, a new video essay by @stephenbroomer.bsky.social about the film and the legacy of personal filmmaking. The full video essay is also available to patrons of @artandtrash.bsky.social.

Second Deaths: Metaphors for Tolerance in Mindwarp Art & Trash, episode 36 Second Deaths: Metaphors for Tolerance in Mindwarp Stephen Broomer, July 5, 2024 Mindwarp was produced by Fangoria Magazine in…

On Mindwarp, the wettest movie ever made.

Huge thanks to José Sarmiento Hinojosa for including this in his list for the Sight & Sound video essay poll. I'm pretty sure he's the only person who watched it!

Take Off (audio commentary) [Art & Trash Miniature 23] Take Off is one of the great absurdist feminist comedies of experimental film, a literal disassembly of the beauty myth as embodied in the exotic dancer. Through…

On Gunvor Nelson's Take Off - "...even amidst all of this revolutionary thought, Take Off ends the striptease with a natural conclusion, revealing it for what it proudly is, an absurd comic pageant."

Coming tomorrow, before midnight - a new video essay on the films of Estus Pirkle and Ron Ormond!

Pools of Darkness: Lady in the Lake and the Eyes of Philip Marlowe | Art & Trash Get more from Art & Trash on Patreon

Tonight, just before midnight, see our latest episode - Pools of Darkness, on Robert Montgomery's Lady in the Lake! #noirvember #videoessay

YouTube video by artandtrash Escalators to Eternity: The Choir Made Visible in Standish D. Lawder's Necrology

On Standish Lawder’s Necrology.

Fear in the Mirror: In Search of a Clean conscience in Maxwell Shane’s Fear in the Night and Nightmare — Art & Trash Detours, episode 7 Fear in the Mirror: In Search of a Clean Conscience in Maxwell Shane's Fear in the Night and Nightmare Stephen Broomer, October 31, 2021 Filmmaker Maxwell Shane adapted Cornell Woo...

One of the strangest episodes in the history of movie remakes...from the first series of Detours.

YouTube video by artandtrash Trouble with People: The Mystery of Jennifer

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Trouble with People: The Mystery of Jennifer
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My latest video essay for the Detours series is now up, on Jennifer (1953), one of the great Hollywood treatments of loneliness and paranoia, starring noir's greatest actress, Ida Lupino.

Josephine Massarella: One Woman Walking Art & Trash, episode 1 Josephine Massarella: One Woman Walking Stephen Broomer, February 11, 2021 Josephine Massarella’s career as a filmmaker is marked…

Art & Trash premiered in February 2021 with this episode, on the Canadian ecofeminist experimental filmmaker Josephine Massarella. I have since restored and published her films on blu-ray disc over at @blackzerodisc.bsky.social!

Leo Rossi impaled by a giant dart. One of the all-time great moments in cinema history.

YouTube video by artandtrash Return to Me: Fantasy and Docudrama in Chained for Life

From our third series, presently concluding, here’s @stephenbroomer.bsky.social on Chained for Life, a docudrama-cum-tabloid-fantasy about the life of the Hilton Twins.

This past year on Art & Trash, we’ve hosted 14 hours of original video essays and audio commentaries. Check some of them out on our Vimeo channel: vimeo.com/channels/art...