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.
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Trailer
A Family Finds Entertainment (Part 2/5) 2004
Cast
Ryan Trecartin
Shin / Skippy / Closet Monster / Booty Girl / Snowy White Girl / Video Face
Lizzie Fitch
Cosmos Bitch / Linda / Fisher Woman / Orange Tamber
Alison Powell
Phalangena
Lindsay Beebe
Little Boogerface / Blueberry Muffin / Hell Boy
Annette K. Bonin
Mom
Muffy Brandt
The Married Virgin
Kathleen Brennan
Michelella
Ben Carlson
Ben / Blue Bubble D / Jane
Laura Colella
Documentary Video Artist Zoey Spelling
Brent Cowley
Bruce
Kenny Curran
White Lips Bloody Knees / Ed / Tamber
Erin Dunn
Patty May
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