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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 12d

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

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.'

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Art & Trash @artandtrash.bsky.social · 14d

I have no political ambitions.

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Art & Trash @artandtrash.bsky.social · 23d

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

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Art & Trash @artandtrash.bsky.social · 25d

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

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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · Aug 21

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

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Art & Trash @artandtrash.bsky.social · Aug 17

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.

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Stephen Broomer @stephenbroomer.bsky.social · Feb 24

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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Art & Trash @artandtrash.bsky.social · Jan 12

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

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...

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Art & Trash @artandtrash.bsky.social · Jan 11

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

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Art & Trash @artandtrash.bsky.social · Jan 11

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.

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...

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Art & Trash @artandtrash.bsky.social · Jan 7

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Art & Trash @artandtrash.bsky.social · Dec 30

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

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...

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Art & Trash @artandtrash.bsky.social · Dec 26

On Storm De Hirsch’s The Tattooed Man.

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...

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Art & Trash @artandtrash.bsky.social · Dec 22

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_...

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Art & Trash @artandtrash.bsky.social · Dec 21

"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."

Art & Trash @artandtrash.bsky.social · Dec 21

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.

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Black Zero @blackzerodisc.bsky.social · Dec 19

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.

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Art & Trash @artandtrash.bsky.social · Dec 19

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!

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…

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Art & Trash @artandtrash.bsky.social · Dec 15

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."

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…

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Art & Trash @artandtrash.bsky.social · Dec 6

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

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Art & Trash @artandtrash.bsky.social · Nov 29

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

Pools of Darkness: Lady in the Lake and the Eyes of Philip Marlowe | Art & Trash

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Art & Trash @artandtrash.bsky.social · Nov 25

On Standish Lawder’s Necrology.

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

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Art & Trash @artandtrash.bsky.social · Nov 24

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

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...

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Art & Trash @artandtrash.bsky.social · Nov 22

You can see it here! Thanks!

Trouble with People: The Mystery of Jennifer
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Trouble with People: The Mystery of Jennifer

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Art & Trash @artandtrash.bsky.social · Nov 22

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.

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