[updated Sept 6, 2023] Billionaires Gnaw Their Tongues From The Pain (Lost Leaders #22) is a new handmade short, created in collaboration with Jackie Gallant. It combines 16mm and 35mm ‘found’ footage, hand-woven elements, bits and pieces from the earliest days of the Lost Leaders project, DIY frame-by-frame scanning using a Lego-modded lightbox, and Jackie’s fab new soundtrack. Billionaires is ‘inspired’ (read: rocket-fueled) by the hideous spectacle of the richest men in the world pretending to be astronauts. It must take a fuck-ton of hubris to strut around like latterday space ‘pioneers’ (Ray-Bans, leather bomber jackets, exceedingly white teeth) while the world burns. Read the room already.
I’m told our short film was well-received at its low-key premiere (ATA/OtherCinema, San Francisco) on December 18th 2021. In June 2022 it screened at the Brooklyn Film Festival. I’m waiting on a few other festival submissions and then it’ll be let loose on this here website. Further screenings: Antimatter [Media Art] (Victoria BC) – October 2022. STUFF – South Texas Underground Film Festival (Corpus Christi, TX), Analogica (Bolzano, Italy), Engauge Experimental Film Festival (Seattle) – all Nov 2022.
As always, #YMMV. Thanks as ever to Craig for imposing a real live deadline. They truly work wonders.