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DANIEL McKERNAN
FILM FESTIVALS & SCREENINGS
El Lugar Sin Limites de Cine | Quito, Ecuador | 2013
Experimento Cineteca Nacional | Cancun, Mexico | 2013
Anthology Film Archives | New York, NY | 2013
MIX NYC Experimental Film Fest | New York, NY | 2012
Llamale Fest of Sexual Diversity | Uruguay | 2012
Tel Aviv International Film Fest | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2012
OFFFest | Barcelona, Spain | 2012
S&S Project Gallery | Chicago, IL | 2012
MIX NYC Experimental Film Fest | New York, NY | 2011
London Underground Film Fest | London, UK | 2011
Darklight Film Fest | Dublin, Ireland | 2011
LesGaiCineMad Film Fest | Madrid, Spain | 2011
Antimatter Film Fest | British Columbia, Canada | 2011
Kinemastik Intnl Film Fest | St. Julians, Malta | 2011
Frameline Intnl Film Fest | San Francisco, CA | 2011
Bourouina Gallery | Berlin, Germany | 2011
Red Gallery | London, UK | 2011
Queerocracy | New York, NY | 2011
Mise au Jeu | Montreal, Canada | 2011
Yerba Buena Center | San Francisco, CA | 2010
Teatro Das Artes | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 2010
Antimatter Film Fest | British Columbia, Canada | 2010
The Horse Hospital | London, UK | 2010
Fully Flared Film Fest | Berlin, Germany | 2010
Coachella Valley Music & Arts Fest | Indio, CA | 2010
MIX NYC Experimental Film Fest | New York, NY | 2009
MIX Mexico | Mexico City, Mexico | 2009
MADRe Museum | Naples, Italy | 2009
The Horse Hospital | London, UK | 2009
Tel Aviv International Film Fest | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2009
Torino GLBT Film Fest | Torino, Italy | 2009
Visions of Excess - Spill Festival | London, UK | 2009
MIX NYC Experimental Film Fest | New York, NY | 2008
OutFest | Los Angeles, CA | 2008
NewFest | New York, NY | 2008
Queer City Cinema | Regina, Canada | 2008
Yerba Buena Center | San Francisco, CA | 2008
MIX NYC Experimental Film Fest | New York, NY | 2007
DonauFestival | Krems, Austria | 2007
Brainwaves Festival | Boston, MA | 2006
Dour Festival | Dour, Belgium | 2002
SELECT EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
Antony’s Meltdown Festival | London, UK | 2012
PURGE | Berlin, Germany | 2012
Westside Gallery | New York, NY | 2011
Youth Group Gallery | New York, NY | 2011
Nicelle Beauchene Gallery | New York, NY | 2010
Live with Animals Gallery | New York, NY | 2010
Secret Project Robot | New York, NY | 2010
Envoy Gallery | New York, NY | 2010
Starr Space Gallery | New York, NY | 2009
Home Sweet Home | New York, NY | 2009
Envoy Gallery | New York, NY | 2009
Westside Gallery | New York, NY | 2008
Dada-Industrial Nights | Pavia, Italy | 2007
Artists Space | New York, NY | 2006
Jonathan Ferarra Gallery | New Orleans, LA | 2006
Visual Arts Gallery | New York, NY | 2005
Diboll Gallery | New Orleans, LA | 2005
Compact-Impact Gallery | New York, NY | 2004
Remote Lounge | New York, NY | 2004
Diboll Gallery | New Orleans, LA | 2003
Danna Gallery | New Orleans, LA | 2003
Poet's Gallery | New Orleans, LA | 2003
EDUCATION
MFA: Computer Art | School of Visual Arts | New York, NY | 2003-2005
BFA: Electronic Multimedia | Loyola University | New Orleans, LA | 1999-2003
Certificate of Study | Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 2002
EXPERIENCE
Director, Curator & Video Editor | Formlessness Press | New York, NY | 2003-present
Produced, directed, and edited several short films featured in international festivals.
Curated two programs of short films featuring artists like Terence Koh, Ron Athey, Genesis POrridge, Slava Mogutin, Zackary Drucker, Luigi & Luca and more.
Create & edit visual projections for live performances for musicians & bands including Coil,
Thighpaulsandra, Peter Christopherson, Cyclobe and Black Sun Productions.
Design album jackets and inserts for various record releases on Brainwashed Recordings.
Several interactive video installations featured in NY galleries & festivals.
PUBLICATIONS
K48 Issue No.8; SATANICA Magazine; England's Hidden Reverse: Coil-Current 93-Nurse with Wound;
Love & Loud Colours: lyric collection of Edward Ka-Spel; Flavorpill.com; Brainwashed.com;
THE FUN book by Museum of Art & Design (2013)
SKILLS
Proficient in Final Cut Pro; DVD Studio Pro; Color; Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and After Effects; Adobe
Premiere Elements; ProTools; Squeeze; MPEG Streamclip; Episode; FlipFactory; iMovie; Windows Movie Maker;
WS_FTP; BBEdit; Fetch; CyberDuck; Transmit; FileMaker Pro; Masterpiece; ScheduAll; Edge; Titanium Toast;
Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint & Outlook.
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BIOGRAPHY
DANIEL McKERNAN is a New York based artist most known for his collaborations surrounding the family of
esoteric, experimental British group, Coil. He has worked on the live video projections for Cyclobe's
performance at the Donaufestival in Austria as well as Thighpaulsandra's and Black Sun Productions' live
performances throughout Europe. He had interactive video installations in NY galleries, most notably Is
Evolution Evil? featuring Amanda Lepore and The Magick H8-Ball featuring Sophia Lamar. He curated two
lineups of experimental queer shorts--Homoccult & Other Esoterotica and Luminous Darkness-- which both
premiered at MIX NYC and went on to travel the world. He was commissioned to do visual projections for the
Portuguese production of Hedwig & the Angry Inch in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has shot two music videos: one
with Bruce LaBruce for Gio Black Peter for “Revolving Door”; the other for Little Annie's “Billy Martin
Requiem”. Lastly, this short film in collaboration with Sophia Lamar premiered in spring 2011 and features a
soundtrack by cellist John Contreras (who has worked with Marc Almond, Current 93 & Cyclobe).
SOPHIA LAMAR is a transsexual fashion icon, nightlife celebrity, former Club Kid, model and actress based in
New York City. She escaped the oppressive conditions of Castro’s Cuba for the blank slate of the USA,
refashioning herself into a leading light constantly at the pinnacle of NY nightlife. Sophia has hosted notorious
parties such as Disco 2000 with Michael Alig. Her image has been in periodicals such as “V,” “Vogue,”
“Vanidad,” “Detour,” “The Face” and “Paper,” photographed by the likes of Terry Richardson, Thierey le
Goues, Joshua Jordan, Dah Len, and John Scarisbrick. Sophia began recording music during the onset of the
electroclash scene, starting with the anthem “Fake,” recorded with Larry Tee. She made her movie debut
playing herself in Manuel Toledano’s “Shampoo Horns” and then became a regular in films by Ned Ambler,
Craig Cobb and Todd Verow.
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FILM SYNOPSIS
WHOEVER WHATEVER (7:00min, B/W)
A haunting short film starring downtown New York City transsexual fashion icon Sophia Lamar, touching on
preconceived ideas of genders and sexual expectations and stereotype. A documentation of a personal
performance of hers in which a ghostly Sophia wanders the streets of desolate New York City like a blank white
canvas yearning for a gender identity. Various dramatic appearances flicker in, painting a different personality
based on appearance alone. The voice-over is derived from an excerpt of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass."
Epic musical score by John Contreras, an American cellist best known for his work with Current 93 and Marc
Almond. Featuring piano by Lars Kivig.
SCREENINGS:
El Lugar Sin Limites Festival de Cine | Quito, Ecuador | 2013
Experimento23 Cineteca Nacional de Mexico | Cancun & Playa del Carmen, Mexico | 2013
Llamale H Intnl Film Festival of Sexual Diversity | Montevideo, Uruguay | 2012
Tel Aviv TLV International Film Fest | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2012
Westside Gallery | New York, NY | 2011
MIX NYC Queer Experimental Film Fest | New York, NY | 2011
London Underground Film Fest | London, UK | 2011
Darklight Film Fest | Dublin, Ireland | 2011
LesGaiCineMad Film Fest | Madrid, Spain | 2011
Antimatter Film Fest | British Columbia, Canada | 2011
Kinemastik Intnl Film Fest | St. Julians, Malta | 2011
Frameline Intnl Film Fest | San Francisco, CA | 2011
Queerocracy | New York, NY | 2011
FILMOGRAPHY
2012 —
2011 —
2010 —
2009 —
2008 —
We Catch Each Other Falling, Infinitely, Into One Another
Introducing PROTECTION
Revolving Door (with Bruce LaBruce)
WHOEVER WHATEVER (with Sophia Lamar)
Billy Martin Requiem (with Little Annie)
Sex Offender
Luminous Darkness (with Cyclobe)
A Well Hung Monk (with COIL and Black Sun Productions)
The Magick H8-Ball (with Sophia Lamar)
2007 —
2006 —
2005 —
2004 —
2003 —
2002 —
HOMOCCULT & OTHER ESOTEROTICA (with Richie Rennt)
Veneration X (with Black Sun Productions)
Murder by Numbers (with Thighpaulsandra)
Das Gegenteil (with Black Sun Productions)
Is Evolution Evil? (with Amanda Lepore)
RGB END V.2.0
Switch Doctor
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ANNA FUSZARA-FLOWER
The Heart of the Matter
Sonic scenes and subcultures at the Antimatter Film Festival
I
By Amanda Farrell-Low
n many ways, the Antimatter Film Festival showcases more
Janisse says the biblio-doc approach makes the film accessible
than experimental film. Sure, the eight-day festival does to both people who are already familiar with R. Steve Moore and
celebrate cinematic subversiveness through a wide variety of his vast body of work—the New Jersey artist has released over
short films, features and gallery installations, but it also shines a 400 recordings since the late-’70s—or those who know nothing
light on a lot of other areas—from rare, under-appreciated music about him and just want to take in an interesting film. But the
to intriguing subcultures.
accessibility isn’t just found in the film’s structure.
Take, for example, Antimatter’s Friday night opening party,
“[Moore] does have some oddball, more experimental music,
which features DJ-son Bitter Herbs (a.k.a. Jason Flower of the but he’s know for real Beatles-esque music or Brian Wilson type
band Mexican Power Authority and co-editor of underground music or Syd Barrett, even,” says Janisse. “His music is actually
music anthology All Your Ears Can Hear) spinning tunes to very accessible and it’s very melodic and there’s a lot of harmoaccompany a screening of the 1925 silent film Battleship Potemkin nies, so the music itself is something I think will appeal to a lot of
at Open Space. But these are no ordinary records Flower will be people. It’s not alienating music at all. It’s just that, for whatever
playing on the decks; he’s raiding his collection of rare, Soviet-era reason, he’s never gotten signed. I don’t know if people strive to
jazz and rock albums he collected during his 10 years living in be signed anymore these days, but he’s never gotten the attention
Europe. Flower spent countless hours crate scouring during his he deserves.”
travels in Eastern Europe, buying up rare records from places like
The process of making Teen Routines wasn’t a collaborative one;
Georgia, Poland, former Yugoslavia and other ex-Socialist areas.
while Janisse has checked in with Moore and gotten him to clarify
“Because of American proand fact-check a few things,
paganda, we always grew up
she usually tries to keep her
thinking there was nothing
biblio-doc projects “very
going on over there, whereas
arms-length from the perit couldn’t be further from
son.” She did, however, get
the opposite,” says Flower.
his permission to proceed,
“All of the Socialist coun- The Pandrogeny Manifesto (part of Hommocult & Other Esoterotica) and he has seen the film.
tries had very vibrant jazz
“He thought it was a fun
scenes and, depending on
trip down memory lane,”
the country, it wasn’t easy, but there were rock scenes everywhere. she says of his reaction. “The problem is that he’s had fans like
That’s a whole other story, really. It wasn’t easy to play rock music. me for decades, people who say, ‘I’m going to take up the cause
It definitely was seen as subversive, but you could hide a lot under of R. Stevie Moore and I’m going to do this project and finally
the word jazz. You even had rock groups that said they were jazz get you some attention.’ I think he’s had a lot of these people over
groups but were playing psychedelic music.”
the years and nothing has really ever come of it and he’s kind of
If Antimatter’s opening party is about drawing attention to a jaded now and says, ‘I’m not going to get excited about it.’ I really
lesser-known music scene, then Teen Routines, showing Tuesday at do hope that people will buy his albums and go on his website as
Open Space, is about showing us an overlooked artist. With Teen a result of seeing this, but it’s just one of those things. He’ll die
Routines, filmmaker Kier-La Janisse, who was behind last year’s and people will write books about him forever, but right now he’s
quadraphonic Flaming Lips film project Zaireeka in Sound and starving to death.”
Pictures, has created a “biblio-doc” looking at prolific sound artist
For New York City-based filmmaker and artist Daniel
R. Stevie Moore. The biblio-doc format combines pre-existing McKernan, having the Homoccult & Other Estoterotica short film
footage of the artist—no new scenes or interviews are shot—with program he co-curated appear at Antimatter is an opportunity to
narration or inter-titles from the filmmaker.
showcase the queer occult scene.
“I collect music videos and television appearances of musical
“This is the first of the screenings that isn’t either explicitly
acts and stuff like that, but I’m very against the idea of hoarding. occult or queer scenes. It’s more just about video art,” he says.
I don’t like having boxes and boxes of stuff that is never used, so “I’m grateful that it’s reaching a wider audience than just the niche
I always try to do something constructive with a lot of the stuff market that it was tailored around.”
that I collect,” says Janisse. “Usually, I will
McKernan and Richie Rennt first put
make these compilations that are about varithe 12-film program, which screens next
ous artists, usually who are not well known or Antimatter Film Festival
Thursday at Open Space, together in 2007,
under-appreciated artists, to try to expose October 8-16
and since then it has travelled all over the
more people to their work. At the same time, Open Space, Cinecenta, Deluge
world to places like Mexico, Italy, London
I know that a video compilation is not going and UVic Visual Arts Building
and Berlin.
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says McKernan. “I tried to reach out to some
Jason Flower and his record collection
of the bigger names in the scene who were doing
similar things. I wasn’t really anticipating it going as
many places as it has, but I’m pleasantly surprised.”
What is it about the film program that McKernan
thinks has given it the legs to keep touring three years
on? “I think that it has an edgy quality to it that is
still tastefully done—although it can sometimes be
a bit hard to stomach,” he says. (Indeed, some of the
films, which deal with things like cosmetic surgery,
ritual suicide and erotic ritual, do look like they
would be fairly graphic.) “The combination of the
dark side with the sexual side is something I think is
intriguing to people, but hasn’t really been touched
on so much within this essence of work.”
And if there’s anything Antimatter is good at, it’s
showing us things we haven’t seen before. M
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