A Family Finds Entertainment

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.

Cast

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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