Overview
A Family Finds Entertainment chronicles the story of mixed up teenager Skippy and his adventures in ‘coming out’. In this over the top celebration of queerness, Trecartin’s film mines the bizarre and endearing in an unabashed pastiche of ‘bad tv’ tropes. Cheesy video special effects, dress-up chess costumes, desperate scripts, and ‘after school special’ melodrama combine in the fluency of youth-culture lingo, reflecting a generation both damaged and affirmed by media consumption.
Director and cast
- Ryan Trecartin Director
- Ryan Trecartin as Shin / Skippy / Closet Monster / Booty Girl / Snowy White Girl / Video Face
- Lizzie Fitch as Cosmos Bitch / Linda / Fisher Woman / Orange Tamber
- Alison Powell as Phalangena
- Lindsay Beebe as Little Boogerface / Blueberry Muffin / Hell Boy
- Annette K. Bonin as Mom
- Muffy Brandt as The Married Virgin
- Kathleen Brennan as Michelella
- Ben Carlson as Ben / Blue Bubble D / Jane
- Laura Colella as Documentary Video Artist Zoey Spelling
- Brent Cowley as Bruce
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