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Brandon Harris

@ickeyshuffling

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Prez, I'd Watch That
Artistic Dir @indiememphis
Dir, Redlegs & A Fresh Hell
Author, Making Rent in Bed-Stuy
Past: @purchasecollege @amazonmgmstudios

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Another restorative MV trip at the height of negro season, in reverse. by @ickeyshuffling

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166 hours in New York by @ickeyshuffling

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This cat is out of the bag. @hyperobject_industries @amazonmgmstudios #idwatchthat see you at the movies in 2028 😉 by @ickeyshuffling

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Quick Bluff Visit Dump by @ickeyshuffling

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A lesson in maintaining one's dignity in the face of corporate chicanery from @scottpelley by @ickeyshuffling

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In 24' they said survive to 25' but no one talked about actually surviving 25'! Despite a fire (for the ages), a con artist, a cancer scare, an increasingly depleted checking account and alot of garden variety betrayal and disappointment, I managed to do just that AND make a few things- some essays, a couple book proposals, a whole feature film - I'm pretty proud of. Grateful for all those who have stuck with me. Here's to 26' being the best yet and if not, perhaps just less grim? taken in Los Angeles, California by @ickeyshuffling

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42 and cloudy. by @ickeyshuffling

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Made a new thing. I don't star in it, despite what the first paragraph of this @deadline story might lead you to believe, but I do appear in it, briefly, along with many of the remarkable people pictured here, without whom none of what I hope you'll get to see in a theater near you one day soon would be possible.

Couldn't have dreamed this would happen on 1/1/25. Thought this picture up on little sleep and no calories for five days after living through the worst urban 🔥in American history. Couldn't have written it without Evan Louison, the actual star of the movie; couldn't have raised the capital and garnered the team to make it without my remarkable producers @maxmooney5 @thejenwestquest and EPs @bugjack @bigsharm @hollywoodhindu, Gill, Ben and especially Schuyler.

Couldn't have photographed/lit it without @williamerouse @_shotbyzay @vandeskillz

Thanks for the locations @fairfaxwright @jszlasa
@glennagordon @betsyholt4 & @thechriswade

And of so indebted to my cast: EL @leeleepitts @willjanowitz
@ariebiancathompson
@missannapurna @problematique_fave @lipschutz_and_lipschutz @jeanettaprich @steveholmgren @frankrjmosley @betsyholt4 @theandrehyland @jonwatkinswriter @zurahlynn @carolynzanelli @jimmycthatsme @carmenscottshow @christinaelizabethsmith @tshiunzadk & @davidscall by @ickeyshuffling

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Summered. by @ickeyshuffling

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Brown Paper Bag Party in Bohemia:
films by Hal Hartley, Vin Diesel and Larry Carty

Guest curated and introduced by Brandon Harris @ickeyshuffling

Tuesday, June 17
@2220arts

doors/bar: 7:30
films: 8:00

This shorts program revives a trio of tart, ironic, longish NYC-set films about the nature of racial and other identities, from directors whose work and personae within American cinema bridges the gap between the most crassily commercial (Diesel) and the most uncompromisingly arthouse (Hartley). -Brandon Harris

OREOS WITH ATTITUDE
directed by Larry Carty
1991, U.S., 30m, DCP

4K restoration from IndieCollect

Richard and Janet are a young black couple desperate to “make it.” Inspired by Donald Trump’s THE ART OF THE DEAL (which we see Richard reading), they take social climbing to new heights by adopting a white child. Produced by Todd Haynes and Christine Vachon.

Official Selection: New Directors/New Films, 1991

THEORY OF ACHIEVEMENT
directed by Hal Hartley
1991, U.S., 18m, DCP

A side-eyed glimpse at the existential angst of the (mostly) white and unemployed creative class in Williamsburg, featuring a cast of Hartley regulars (Elina Löwensohn, Bill Sage, Bob Gosse).

MULTI-FACIAL
directed by Vin Diesel
1995, U.S., 21m, DCP

A multiracial actor (Vin Diesel) enters a series of auditions where he plays different ethnicities to meet industry expectations in this hilarious and touching autobiographical short film that put Diesel on the map.

Total runtime: approx. 70m.

Special thanks to Chris McChane (Possible Films), Cameron Haffner and Sandra Schulberg (IndieCollect).

Brandon Harris is the president and co-founder, with the director Shaka King, of I’d Watch That, author of Making Rent in Bed-Stuy (2017), director of Redlegs (2012), contributing editor to Filmmaker Magazine and a recovering streaming era Hollywood studio executive. His writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, VICE, Variety, and The New York Review of Books. by @ickeyshuffling

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Brown Paper Bag Party in Bohemia:
films by Hal Hartley, Vin Diesel and Larry Carty

Guest curated and introduced by Brandon Harris @ickeyshuffling

Tuesday, June 17
@2220arts

doors/bar: 7:30
films: 8:00

This shorts program revives a trio of tart, ironic, longish NYC-set films about the nature of racial and other identities, from directors whose work and personae within American cinema bridges the gap between the most crassily commercial (Diesel) and the most uncompromisingly arthouse (Hartley). -Brandon Harris

OREOS WITH ATTITUDE
directed by Larry Carty
1991, U.S., 30m, DCP

4K restoration from IndieCollect

Richard and Janet are a young black couple desperate to “make it.” Inspired by Donald Trump’s THE ART OF THE DEAL (which we see Richard reading), they take social climbing to new heights by adopting a white child. Produced by Todd Haynes and Christine Vachon.

Official Selection: New Directors/New Films, 1991

THEORY OF ACHIEVEMENT
directed by Hal Hartley
1991, U.S., 18m, DCP

A side-eyed glimpse at the existential angst of the (mostly) white and unemployed creative class in Williamsburg, featuring a cast of Hartley regulars (Elina Löwensohn, Bill Sage, Bob Gosse).

MULTI-FACIAL
directed by Vin Diesel
1995, U.S., 21m, DCP

A multiracial actor (Vin Diesel) enters a series of auditions where he plays different ethnicities to meet industry expectations in this hilarious and touching autobiographical short film that put Diesel on the map.

Total runtime: approx. 70m.

Special thanks to Chris McChane (Possible Films), Cameron Haffner and Sandra Schulberg (IndieCollect).

Brandon Harris is the president and co-founder, with the director Shaka King, of I’d Watch That, author of Making Rent in Bed-Stuy (2017), director of Redlegs (2012), contributing editor to Filmmaker Magazine and a recovering streaming era Hollywood studio executive. His writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, VICE, Variety, and The New York Review of Books. by @ickeyshuffling

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Boise to Baltimore Spring Media Festing in Reverse by @ickeyshuffling

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