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artandtrash
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Essays by Stephen Broomer
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Art & Trash, a source for video essays on underground, avant-garde, cult, occult, psychotronic and outsider media. Named for Pauline Kael's Trash, Art, and the Movies, we are searching for surreal encounters in the dusty, subversive and marginal corners of cinema. Presented by filmmaker Stephen Broomer.
www.patreon.com/artandtrash
Art & Trash, a source for video essays on underground, avant-garde, cult, occult, psychotronic and outsider media. Named for Pauline Kael's Trash, Art, and the Movies, we are searching for surreal encounters in the dusty, subversive and marginal corners of cinema. Presented by filmmaker Stephen Broomer.
Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown (audio commentary) [Art & Trash Miniature 21] - underground comix
Jim Reardon, Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown, 1986, with audio commentary by Stephen Broomer. An Art & Trash miniature.
In 1986, as a student at CalArts, Jim Reardon and his friends made this fast n' brutal satire. More a satire of New American Cinema and commercial culture than of the Peanuts gang, Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown bridges the precocious fantasy of Schultz's sensitive wisening children with the violent style and vision of Sam Peckinpah and company. In this audio commentary, Stephen Broomer discusses the nature of the film's satire, its crude pencil-sketch style, and its correlation to the world of underground comix.
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In 1986, as a student at CalArts, Jim Reardon and his friends made this fast n' brutal satire. More a satire of New American Cinema and commercial culture than of the Peanuts gang, Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown bridges the precocious fantasy of Schultz's sensitive wisening children with the violent style and vision of Sam Peckinpah and company. In this audio commentary, Stephen Broomer discusses the nature of the film's satire, its crude pencil-sketch style, and its correlation to the world of underground comix.
Subscribe to Art & Trash:
www.youtube.com/@artandtrash6095
This video is made possible via the sponsorship of Patreon supporters. Consider signing up for advance and exclusive content. My Patreon: www.patreon.com/artandtrash/
Follow me on social media:
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artandtrash_
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#animation #undergroundfilm #undergroundcomix #filmcriticism #audiocommentary
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Lights (audio commentary) [Art & Trash miniature 26] - experimental film
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Marie Menken, Lights, 1964-66, with audio commentary by Stephen Broomer. An Art & Trash miniature. Like many of the films that Marie Menken made between the mid-1950s and mid-60s, Lights is propelled by personal fascinations that broaden in execution. She shot the film over three consecutive Christmas seasons, drawn to the ebullience of the colourful lights and decorations that would overtake N...
Rambler: Spoofing the Avant-Garde in Jane Conger Belson's Odds & Ends
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Rambler: Spoofing the Avant-Garde in Jane Conger Belson's Odds & Ends Art & Trash, episode 37 July 19, 2024 [Patreon] Jane Conger Belson, later Jane Conger Belson Shimané, entered San Francisco’s underground film scene in the mid-1950s through her common-law husband Jordan Belson, a painter and abstract animator whose light shows were a focal point in the city’s evolving intermedia countercultu...
Screams from the Sky: Taking the Scenic Route with the Psychotronic Man
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Screams from the Sky: Taking the Scenic Route with the Psychotronic Man Art & Trash, episode 35 June 21, 2024 [Patreon] In The Psychotronic Man, Rocky Foscoe, an affable Chicago barber, has a paranormal encounter, when he drives out to the country to drink alone, far from the oppressive confusion of his modern life. His reverie is interrupted and he finds himself flying through the air in his P...
Prophets and Propaganda, or, If Faces Tire You, What Will Movies Do?
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Following a near-death experience, Nashville exploitation filmmaker Ron Ormond undertook a series of filmed sermons in collaboration with the evangelical Baptist preacher Estus Pirkle. These collaborations ranged from portraits of heaven and hell to a dire warning of the threat of Communism to America's Christians - a warning realized in such a fashion as to become an enduring curio. From Ormon...
Blazes (audio commentary) [Art & Trash miniature 18] - experimental animation
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Robert Breer, Blazes, 1961, with audio commentary by Stephen Broomer. An Art & Trash miniature. Robert Breer is an essential figure in the evolution of experimental animation, and the pivotal work that he developed in the transit between the 1950s and the 1960s did a great deal to establish the approach that would dominate his mature era. Breer once remarked that his work was a search for new f...
Trouble with People: The Mystery of Jennifer
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Detours, episode 14 Trouble with People: The Mystery of Jennifer Stephen Broomer, November 22, 2024 In the harsh and glorious sunlight of southern California, consider the romance and terror of the shadow in film noir: shadows, plural, cloak a scene in mystery, but true menace lies in the faintest of movements, the animation of a lone shadow, breaking the atmosphere with a hint of voyeurism or ...
The Smirking Revenant: Bury Me Dead as Screwball Noir
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Detours, episode 13 The Smirking Revenant: Bury Me Dead as Screwball Noir Stephen Broomer, November 15, 2024 In “Paint It Black: The Family Tree of Film Noir,” Raymond Durgnat argues that film noir is not a genre but a style that exists at the centre of overlapping themes. This approach makes other genres susceptible to a noir influence: the gothic mystery, the horror movie, the romantic drama,...
The Difference: Fate and the Gun in The Hitch-Hiker
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Detours, episode 12 The Difference: Fate and the Gun in The Hitch-Hiker Stephen Broomer, November 8, 2024 When Gilbert Bowen and Roy Collins, old friends on a trip to Mexico, stop to help a stranded motorist, the hitch-hiker’s frightening appearance is a warning sign of the difference between the travellers and the hitch-hiker, of the impassable distance between them. Soon enough this hitch-hik...
Dementia: Myth and Nocturne
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Detours, episode 11 Dementia: Myth and Nocturne Stephen Broomer, November 1, 2024 John Parker’s Dementia is an unconventional, low-budget, independent film, made without synchronous sound by amateurs, a cruel adventure of symbols colliding in a web of nocturnal fantasy, classical allegory, chiaroscuro, and a menacing atmosphere. It exists at the midpoint between the film noir and the psychodram...
Paperback: Prisoners of the Printed Page in The Timekeepers of Eternity
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Paperback: Prisoners of the Printed Page in The Timekeepers of Eternity Art & Trash, episode 44 October 31, 2024 There was no greater mass-culture storyteller in the last quarter of the twentieth century than Stephen King, and throughout the 1990s, his novels and novellas became fodder for another distinctively mass-culture form: the TV movie. King’s novella The Langoliers, adapted for televisi...
Thanatopsis (audio commentary) [Art & Trash miniature 25]
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Ed Emshwiller, Thanatopsis, 1962, with audio commentary by Stephen Broomer. An Art & Trash miniature. In titling his film Thanatopsis, Ed Emshwiller draws from the Todestriebe, the death drives in Freudian theory, the instinct to destruction that serves as the cause for our coming into being. But this work also shares its title with a pre-Freudian source, William Cullen Bryant’s 1817 poem, whic...
Plastic Masks: Possibly in Michigan as Urban Legend
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Possibly in Michigan is a work of American video art that brings Surreal fantasy into dialogue with feminist critique. In it dwells an absurd synthesis of Melpomene and Thalia, a grotesque grin creasing tear-stained cheeks, topped with a nest of snakes like the head of Medusa. Its story is a fable, told in operetta and masquerade. Masked players populate this elsewhere, somewhere in America, so...
The Right Place: Martyrs and Monsters in Suffer Little Children
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Suffer Little Children was made by the Meg Shanks drama school in south London, with a cast of intergenerational theatre students. Meg Shanks is credited as screenwriter and local talent promoter Alan Briggs as director, but there are indications that Shanks and Briggs were simply conductors of the students’s improvisations, that the film is a semi-coherent assembly of scene studies threaded to...
Sympathy for the Devil: Walking a Mile with MurderLust
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Sympathy for the Devil: Walking a Mile with MurderLust Art & Trash, episode 31 April 19, 2024 Appearances can be deceitful, and beneath such a deception there may be no depth at all, no substantive or satisfying explanation. Steve Belmont, a security guard and Sunday school teacher, moonlights as the 'Mojave Murderer', killing sex workers and dumping their bodies in the desert. Belmont is a com...
Aleph (audio commentary) [Art & Trash Miniature 11]
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Aleph (audio commentary) [Art & Trash Miniature 11]
The Peanut Vendor (audio commentary) [Art & Trash miniature 24]
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The Peanut Vendor (audio commentary) [Art & Trash miniature 24]
Return to Me: Fantasy and Docudrama in Chained for Life
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Return to Me: Fantasy and Docudrama in Chained for Life
Detours - Series 3 (fall 2024) trailer
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Detours - Series 3 (fall 2024) trailer
Hand Held Day (audio commentary) [Art & Trash Miniature 22]
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Hand Held Day (audio commentary) [Art & Trash Miniature 22]
Against Illustration: Poetics and Intuition in the Video Essay
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Against Illustration: Poetics and Intuition in the Video Essay
Borrowed Dreams: Joseph Cornell and the Archive as Psychic Imprint (avant-garde film, video essay)
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Borrowed Dreams: Joseph Cornell and the Archive as Psychic Imprint (avant-garde film, video essay)
Discreet Charms: The Last Slumber Party and the Order of Dreams
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Discreet Charms: The Last Slumber Party and the Order of Dreams
The Pop Show (audio commentary) [Art & Trash miniature 20]
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The Pop Show (audio commentary) [Art & Trash miniature 20]
The Dancing Pig (audio commentary) [Art & Trash miniature 4]
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The Dancing Pig (audio commentary) [Art & Trash miniature 4]
Black Forest Trading Post (audio commentary) [Art & Trash Miniature 19]
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Black Forest Trading Post (audio commentary) [Art & Trash Miniature 19]
Wizards: Labour, Magic and The Wizard of Speed and Time
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Wizards: Labour, Magic and The Wizard of Speed and Time
Changing Seasons: The Canadian Pastoral in Keith Lock's Everything Everywhere Again Alive
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Changing Seasons: The Canadian Pastoral in Keith Lock's Everything Everywhere Again Alive
If the whole movie was a dream, how did Chris’s have 2 dreams in the course of the original dream? I don’t think even Freddy Krueger ever pulled that off.
Outstanding as usual <3
more Anger commentaries please!!
Also check out Reardon's other student film Ouchless
Also featured is a scene from another CalArts student film Snookles
Happiness is a warm Uzi
Also check out Glimpse of the Garden and Go Go Go
Groovy essay
Thanks for analyzing all three of Pirkle's films; this comment coming from a Christian with autism
From the director that brought you Mesa of Lost Women ;)
Each of these films are available via NWR and MUBI; you also forgot to mention the fact that Pirkle was sampled by Negativland (from a track on the album that the first film of the Ormond/Pirkle trilogy was based on)
Thanks for the incredible insight. Stuff like this really helps me reevaluate and come to appreciate films that I might have written-off on an initial viewing.
Thank you! Glad to be of service!
Thanks for introducing me to the song Angel Eyes
dig it
10:05-10:15 XD
I wonder where that costume is now!
Excellent analysis, with great timing of the images to exemplify the commentary on the implications of the powerful imagery. Ida Lupino was a potent talent.
Impressively comprehensive & excellently timed commentary track.
That poor paper-tearing worm known as Craig "SCARING A LITTLE GIRL!?!" Toomy
Also check out Science Friction
Violence and perfume XD
What is a cormorant?
In other words, video horror's version of Children of the Damned
Amazing review
Another great essay
Incisive and illuminating commentary, as in all your videos. Please keep at it.
Thank you!
omg ive been watching this short film for 15 years and i never noticed the figure in the background in the last scene. thank you so much for that little detail
Also check out Birth of the Robot
Beautiful take on an otherwise ableist film
Great thanks! 💋
Thanks for introducing me to this wonderfully unique short film.
Thanks for watching!
Audio issues?
I've been watching this movie for probably 30 years and I show it to as many people as I can. Thank you for this video
Thanks for watching, David!
Do you mind if I call you the Bob Ross of video essays?
Also watch Enter Hamlet
4:17-4:32 That's all... folks
Theme for BFTP: th-cam.com/video/ett3_y2szPk/w-d-xo.html
First saw this on your Black Zero Vimeo channel :)
Do you guys often search for new or unknown filmmakers?
Thanks for asking! For me it's not so much a matter of searching for obscure filmmakers as it is learning about the histories of independent and experimental film which has a ton of unsung filmmakers. In the case of Willie Varela, I heard about him through something Stan Brakhage had written, then I searched out the films and found them impactful, and then I was able to meet Willie and get to know him and all of his work pretty well, and so this video is a result of that kind of engagement with his work. Ultimately I'm just glad I can share the work with people who haven't encountered it before.
I've always really enjoyed stop motion. It just hits something inside.
Same here!
You updated your Series Three trailer with a future funk version of That's Cool, That's Trash, I see
Have you seen his first animated entry, the 1971 short he made while at UCLA called Good Grief?
Is that the one about a filmmaker eaten by actual film reels? It was shown in between movies on HBO in the early 80s.
Beautiful video. Very underrated channel
Thanks for saying so!
Excellent video. One of my favorite short films
Me too!
Really lovely analysis
Thanks Brian!
Great essay, keep it up!
Thank you!
These are incredible. Great vids. Keep 'em coming!
I love the pacing and flow of your vids. This one is especially nice! I particularly loved the way you let the film's scenes play out, rather than opting for the (seemingly) more popular truncated two-line edit. And he negative image clip was a classy touch. Great job!
Thank you so much!
This is a great dissection of a crippled masterpiece! Looking forward to digging into your archives. Cool channel!
This just popped up on my algorithm, and man am I glad! Great video. Intriguing back catalog. Instant sub!
Welcome aboard!