Samara, Winnie and Chase just premiered their film Residency at Rotterdam Film Fest. We’ll show 10-15 min preview on Thursday February 16th @reunion at Wonderland Dreams as part of a shorts block. Samara @miss3liss is founder of art collective, gallery and I don’t know entirely how to describe space @thelockerroomnyc. She paired up with Winnie @w1nn1th (previously of Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched— the 🐐@KierlaJanisse) to make a film about her month long artist Residency . Chase @leather_loc...
Feb 13, 2023•2 hr 32 min•Season 4Ep. 17
Hannah Ha Ha is out now in NY and LA. The co-directors Jordan and Josh and star Hannah join me @banjohannah @jordan_tetewsky. We hosted the first in person screening last year after they won Slamdance, and then hosted opening night party on Friday, I did Q+A Saturday. Next, we’ll actually be showing the short film that preceded this, Hannah in April , on Thursday Feb 16 at Wonderland Dreams, with a live musical performance from Hannah. We’ve done a bunch of these talks about this movie already, ...
Feb 13, 2023•51 min•Season 4Ep. 16
Anya Raza & Yumna Rizvi @anyarazaofficial @yumrizvi will show their film Still Here on Thursday February 16 @reunion pop up at Wonderland Dreams. Anya is a documentarian and Yumna works at CVT Center for Victims of Torture in DC. They partnered on the project. Here we talk about the relationship between causes and art, how money factors in, how the west creates bias. I talk about Beyonce and Diplo for a while and somehow relate it to torture, yeah. Maybe. You can judge for yourself. This epi...
Feb 11, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 4Ep. 15
Blake James Reid + Max Frumkin @blakejamesreid @moque.furs just made their first short Yamashiro LIVE! and we're going to screen it on February 16th @reunion @wonderlanddreamland. We talk about their creative collaboration, their influences, and in many ways the nature of communication through art. I'm excited for these guys to watch Chainsaw and Naked properly. I think it'll blow their minds. See y'all Thursday. https://reunion2162023.splashthat.com...
Feb 10, 2023•1 hr 31 min•Season 4Ep. 14
Brontez Purnell @brontezpurnell joins me for an episode after having played his short film 100 Boyfriends Mixtape #3 @reunion a few weeks ago. It was an absolute smash. I was nervous about how the audience would take it, as it includes imagery that honestly most will never see or even conceptualize of. He somehow packages that sensitively and thoughtfully in a way that warmly opens the audience up to ideas beyond their scope. He gained massive acclaim for just that with his book 100 Boyfriends i...
Feb 09, 2023•49 min
Jeff Rutherford @jeffsrutherford just premiered his feature debut A Perfect Day for Caribou starring Charlie Plummer at Locarno and Slamdance. We had his team Kyra Bailey and Joseph Longo on yesterday. We’re showing films they’ve all worked on this Wednesday February 8th at Gospel NYC with @reunion. Jeff talks about his festival experience, getting a movie out into the world right now with distribution options, key collaborators, and next steps for movies in general. Join us Wednesday if you’re ...
Feb 07, 2023•37 min•Season 4Ep. 12
Joseph Longo & Kyra Bailey @josephsrlongofilm @kyra.bailey will show some films @reunion on Wednesday February 8th and just premiered their feature A Perfect Day for Caribou at Locarno and Slamdance. We talk in detail about what it takes to put a low budget movie together and how to bring it to the world. More from writer director Jeff Rutherford @jeffsrutherford on next episode too. Come see their work on Wednesday: https://reunion2823.splashthat.com
Feb 06, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 4Ep. 11
Brenna @brennapower just premiered her first short film Cold & Sara at Slamdance Film Fest and we show it @reunion on Wednesday February 8th with a full program of shorts at Gospel NYC. We talk about what it's like to be a filmmaker today, pushing shorts, developing features. I forgot to ask her about Babylon I just realized, which she was in. Wow. How tf did I forget to ask about Babylon. Wow. Anyway, we talk about how Film Freeway is a scam a lot. See y'all Wednesday. https://reunion2823.s...
Feb 05, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Season 4Ep. 10
Sofia @sofiacamargo__ is a filmmaker whose short Al Lado Del Rio we’ll show on Wednesday February 8th at Gospel in NYC @reunion. We talk about what NYU grad school is like, and balancing one’s own artistic sensibility with the learned techniques of an intensive program and community like that. Wednesday will share a lineup with some more classmates and collaborators like producer Joseph Longo. Hope to see you there! https://reunion2823.splashthat.com
Feb 05, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Season 4Ep. 9
Eran Kolirin is a filmmaker with a current retrospective at NYC's Quad Cinema, in celebration of his new film Let It Be Morning , which premiered at Cannes in Un Certain Regard. You'd know him most from the wildly successful The Band's Visit , which was adapted into a huge musical. I like the movie more, which I had the pleasure of watching on 35mm this week before moderating opening night's Q&A last night. Eran and I talk about identity most. What's it mean to be a Jew? Israeli? Middle East...
Feb 04, 2023•56 min•Season 4Ep. 8
Jay Giampietro @jaygiampietro has made a ton of short films that have played tons of festivals most importantly NYFF. He represents a vibe and milieu of NYC arts culture that's maintained its crisp purity for the last decade plus. The Safdies transfer that NYC anxiety into crime, but Jay likes to examine closely the people we walk by every day and the conversations we exist amongst. Monday February 6 we show his latest work Hernia amongst an evening curated by previous episode's Miles Emanuel. H...
Feb 02, 2023•1 hr 33 min•Season 4Ep. 7
Miles Emanuel @ gertrudkanning is back and we have a screening together Monday February 6th at Gospel NYC . https://reunion262023.splashthat.com Another surprise lineup that we talk about in detail here, so listen now for a preview or wait until later. Hope to see y'all on Monday!!
Feb 01, 2023•1 hr 12 min
Kenny Schachter @kennyschachter is an art world hybrid--artist, critic, journalist, curator, dealer, NFT expert... We focus specifically on his video work for much of this conversation, as we'll showcase a few of the hundreds he's made over the years this Friday January 13th @reunion in NYC, actually showing Kenny's work for the first time ever in a theater. As I type this the morning after recording, I think about the idea of 'outsider' in the art world, which Kenny describes himself as. I'm no...
Jan 10, 2023•1 hr 31 min•Season 4Ep. 7
Daniel Antebi @dantebi_ just gave a talk about how to make your first feature film before turning 25. He did. @reunion is going to show the opening of God's Time Friday January 13th at Midnight Theatre. I love the opening most actually, so I'm really winning here. I love the film overall, but I really feel that the opening packs in soooo much of what Daniel is good at--capturing kinetic energy and transferring it to an audience. Don't skip on the rest of the movie, because there he provides spac...
Jan 09, 2023•1 hr 52 min
Lucia Santina Ribisi @peace_on_earth.mp4 is a filmmaker and activist who made the short film Climate Chaos, Baby which we're going to show @reunion Friday January 13th at Midnight Theatre with live narration and score. She explores whether she feels having children is ok when our environment is collapsing, and what the real problem is. Recent NYC resident via LA, Lucia's also working on a 'real-time club theater' at Zero Space called Diskokina on January 28th. It sounds wild. She talks about goi...
Jan 08, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Libe @libebarer and Ruby @ruby.mccollister just made a short film called With the Fishes , that I'll screen on Friday Jan 6 with the secret 16mm print referenced in yesterday's episode with Miles Emanuel. We talk about Streisand and Minelli, Funny Girl , Los Angeles, Babylon . Talked a lot about the importance of programming and bringing people to the movies. The cruelty of data. If you're in NYC come watch the film on Friday: https://www.midnighttheatre.com/events/reunion-film-jan6...
Jan 04, 2023•1 hr 43 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Miles Emanuel and I host a @reunion 16mm film screening on Friday January 6th 2023 at Midnight Theatre NYC (link below). The film is a secret publicly, but listen here if you want the reveal (spoiler alert). Miles is a born and raised New Yorker, who just watched his 10,000th movie at the age of 23. You may have seen him recently in Funny Pages (written+directed by Owen Kline) and he is currently raising post funding for his feature debut Zucchini . We talk about the state of movies today, how i...
Jan 02, 2023•1 hr 45 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Here’s Antoneta’s interview without the intro (previous episode). Here’s our post-screening Q+A with @antonetaalamatkusijanovic filmmaker of Murina. Antoneta won Camera D’Or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, first time filmmaker award. Love this movie. Kino Lorber release it this summer in US. Read more on her here: https://variety.com/2022/film/global/alamat-kusijanovic-murina-cannes-interview-1235204121/
May 09, 2022•39 min•Season 3Ep. 2
First episode in a while. A little update. Talk about movies and exhibition and theatrical experience. Then this episode turns into a recording of my post-screening Q+A with @antonetaalamatkusijanovic filmmaker of Murina. Antoneta won Camera D’Or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, first time filmmaker award. Love this movie. Kino Lorber release it this summer in US. Read more on her here: https://variety.com/2022/film/global/alamat-kusijanovic-murina-cannes-interview-1235204121/
May 09, 2022•46 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Orson @orsonowitz and I went to Emerson College together. We both basically hated it, feeling like it was a buncha industry talk and comedy bs and no real art thinking. Attribute all that to me no him just in case. He's now made 3 films in about 3 years. And he's just making stuff. Whatever elements come together, with whatever resources...attach a point of view...and make a movie. He talks about actors being his closest collaborators on set, and I reference how he's gotten the best performances...
Sep 14, 2020•1 hr 45 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Ben @benhozie just premiered @fantasiafestival his new film PVT Chat starring Uncut Gems' @juliafox and @petervackofficial. People who asked what's Julia gonna be in next...this is it. It's a very NYC movie. Internet folk in NYC movie. Bc that's what we are. Made by a bunch of NYC people, namely Ben, who fronts one of the last fresh and relevant actual NYC based indie rock bands. They're like The Strokes, but Ben sings about today's existence on the internet. I told him I felt like his songs are...
Sep 11, 2020•2 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Justine's Sibyl releases Friday Sept 11 via FIlm at Lincoln Center, my fav. I watched the film last year at NYFF and loved it. I talk to Justine about contemporary films about adults living adult lives, dealing with adult thoughts. We get them from France, but rarely United States. She has such a wonderful cast because she creates such major roles. Every single role in the film is nuanced, a look into a three dimensional person. There are no thin secondary characters, she does each one relatable...
Sep 09, 2020•34 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Eve @evebarlow has a conflict. A few actually. Most people know her as a music journalist writing for @guardian @GQ @latimes @nymag @pitchfork @billboard @tabletmag @nmemagazine @playboy . Lately, she's been a really loud Jew. Will her music people remain interested when Judaism is the topic? Will the massive influx of new followers via Judaism read her music writing? Can she be a music journalist who is also an activist around Judaism? What about Zionism? What about the conversation around Isra...
Sep 03, 2020•2 hr 30 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Ryan @aryankrugerthing is filmmaker behind @friedbarrymovie playing now @fantasiafestival. It's a gonzo trip movie where he pulls out all the tricks he never got to use on his many music videos or commercials. It's heroin gonzo meets alien gonzo. I don't know if it really matters if we're watching Barry under the influence of heroin or an alien possession, but just everything happens. What I loved most about talking to Ryan is hearing how much he loves his movie. He made exactly the film he want...
Aug 31, 2020•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Julia @reel.jss stars in Come True , premiering TONIGHT @fantasiafestival. It's Anthony Scott Burns' soph film, and I learned from Julia they had eight people on set. Very cool. It makes sense. Burns requires serious emotional openness and evolution from Julia, where her internal shifts in her subconscious and unconscious fully drive the narrative. It's Julia's show. Her face is the star of the movie. And she's got one of those faces. It's a classic you don't forget. Added iconic short blonde ha...
Aug 30, 2020•49 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Chino premieres Undergods , his feature debut, this weekend @fantasticfestival. It's pitch black in cool blue, a dystopian future, a crumbled Europe, a sinkhole of a narrative carved into chapters channeling this despair into stories of broken intimacy. Broken organization, broken communication, broken masculinity. Everything broken and fragmented. As we discuss though, this isn't to leave you hopeless. It's to open your eyes and demand something else when you exit that theater (or turn off your...
Aug 29, 2020•1 hr 44 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Isabel @isabelpeppard77 is co-director of Morgana @morganadocumentary, which is showing @fantasiafestival right now, after its premiere at Melbourne Film Festival. Her co-director Josie Hess @yosiesaurus couldn't join us just bc lotsa time zones. Morgana is an emotional story of a woman making a courageous shift in her circumstances and taking control of her life and narrative. At the end of her rope, lost in her standard housewife/mother life, Morgana decided to break her 12 year celibacy and h...
Aug 29, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 7
I'll write a better description later but I wanted to upload this immediately because @theblockislandsound premieres like right now @fantasiafestival . I have a bunch of episodes in a row focused on films there. Will be rolling them out through the weekend and next week. Funny I didn't even know they went to Emerson College with me. Fun episode. Great film, GO WATCH IT! www.fantasiafestival.com...
Aug 28, 2020•55 min•Season 2Ep. 6
George @ georgeguttridgesmith of @obubuteafarms (Wazuka, Japan) is officially my longest episode! And we could have kept going easily. If you go back to my episode with Elyse Petersen of Tealet, you heard us talking about Obubu's internship program. Elyse started that, and George was a participant in 2018, never left Wazuka. Well, he left and came back, but you know what I mean. Obubu is a leader in the field. Beyond internships, there's a wonderful tour business, videos, classes, trips, and gre...
Aug 28, 2020•3 hr 23 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Kathryn @klfbiz3 , founder of @biz3publicity is IMHO one of the most important people in the music industry. I didn't say 'women.' She's touched more angles than most I know. We started by talking about her ex-husband's new record ( www.agrapedope.com ), formerly of peak cool indie rock band Tortoise. We barely talked about her cofounding OWSLA with Skrillex and Tim Smith. We talked some about her generic publicity and management empire. We touched on hip hop artists she works with like Killer M...
Aug 27, 2020•1 hr 31 min•Season 2Ep. 4
