Ep 87 WEST OF MEMPHIS with filmmaker Gavin Michael Booth
- May 13, 2018
- Tagged as: A Documentary Podcast, Amy Berg, Billy McMillin, comedian, comedy, deconstruct, director, dissect, doc nedrds, doc nerds, docs, documentaries, documentary, filmmaker, Fran Walsh, funny, Gavin Booth, George Chen, interview, mayhem, Paco Romane, Paradise Lost, Peter Jackson, podcast, Recap, Sup Doc, Sup Doc Podcast, true crime, West Memphis 3, West Memphis Three, West of Memphis
Part 1 of our True Crime series starts off with West of Memphis. We recap this follow up to the Paradise Lost series with horror filmmaker Gavin Michael Booth.
![We covered this in our live @sf_sketchfest show a few years back!
#Repost @spectaclenyc with @get_repost
・・・
Hindsight is 2020...
.
🇺🇸◾️◾️◾️◾️◾️◾️◾️◾️
◾️MEMORIAL DAY 2000◾️
◾️◾️◾️◾️◾️◾️◾️◾️🤮
Produced by Caleb Johnston, Twig Harper,
Carly Ptak, 2002. :: USA, 22 min
.
. 🦅 MONDAY, MAY 25th, 2020- 7PM
🌭
Rarely ever does an object of found footage amass as notorious a reputation as MEMORIAL DAY 2000 has. What harmlessly began as one nameless camerawoman’s home video from within the respectable walls of an RV soon comes fully unhinged, plunging dimensions into a merciless spectacle of iconic American moral decay. Captured ambivalently over the course of a lost Memorial Day weekend at the turn of the millennium, we bear cringing witness to a frenzy of fiercely misguided Gen Xers as they swarm an ill-fated North Michigan meadow in triumphant barbarism surrounding a federal holiday for the most part neglected to be mentioned in the video itself.
Unfortunately enough for the cast members of their own depraved opera, what happens on a Midwest field doesn’t always stay on a Midwest field… Only to be ditched two years later at a nearby yard sale, the ever-incriminating document was discovered and salvaged by those of a breed poles apart. Incidentally falling into the dutiful hands of noise musicians, Twig Harper and Carly Ptak (of Nautical Almanac) guilefully took it upon themselves to publish VHS copies via their label, which they then regularly carried on merch tables at dingy basement shows, allowing the anthropological artifact to effectively circulate through VCRs across the nation. Eventually hobbling its way back to haunt the dismayed sinners on display, the undead tape was pulled from print upon desperate request — however not before earning conflicted cult status and a burning lawn chair in the found footage hall of fame.
Now exactly two decades after that legendary weekend, Spectacle invites the judging eyes of the world to join us for a special 20th anniversary livestream in commemoration of the savage relic known only as MEMORIAL DAY 2000.
.
.
[Followed by: AIN'T NOTHING LIKE BEING FREE]
.
📼📼📼📼📼📼📼📼📼📼📼📼📼📼📼📼
🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳](https://secureservercdn.net/45.40.146.28/47d.b72.myftpupload.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)