A Family Finds Entertainment (2005)

A Family Finds Entertainment

2005

Comedy

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Ryan Trecartin

Cast

Alison Powell as Phalangena

Annette K. Bonin as Mom

Ben Carlson as Ben / Blue Bubble D / Jane

Brent Cowley as Bruce

Kathleen Brennan as Michelella

Laura Colella as Documentary Video Artist Zoey Spelling

Lindsay Beebe as Little Boogerface / Blueberry Muffin / Hell Boy

Lizzie Fitch as Cosmos Bitch / Linda / Fisher Woman / Orange Tamber