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 youtu.be/LrA9if2cthA

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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!

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

On Standish Lawder’s Necrology.

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

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.

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.

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...