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The Projection Booth Podcast

Special Report: Scooter LaForge - A Life of Art (2023)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8686 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Ethan Minsker joins Mike to discuss his latest film, Scooter LaForge: A Life of Art (2023). The film's subject, Scooter LaForge, talks about his experience of having himself and his art in the documentary. The film has its premiere at DocNYC. Find out more at the festival's website.

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0:00.0

Hold your ears, folks.

0:06.8

It's showtime.

0:08.5

People pay good money to see this movie.

0:10.9

When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.

0:17.3

Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.

0:20.1

Shut it off.

0:25.5

Turn it off.

0:31.5

Turn it off.

0:36.4

Turn it. I started to experiment with drugs.

0:46.3

I did a lot of shady stuff.

0:48.3

I heard a lot of people.

0:53.3

Scooter just paints anything. He'll paint the plates. He'll paint you if you get too close. I used to like to call him Little Picasso. I'm still afraid that people aren't going to like me or accept me.

1:13.6

A lot of comments that people make to me are like,

1:15.6

wow, that's a beautiful painting, but it's sad too.

1:18.6

He's managed to combine the punk rock attitude

1:24.6

with the opposite, with a light lighthearted and sweet sense of humor.

1:30.3

There's hidden everywhere, but that's what's so amazing about Scooter's work.

1:51.0

Scooter's work was everywhere. I couldn't avoid it. I really liked it. I do think he has a bright vision of the future of the world. But he also is smart enough to pick up on the detritus of society that gets in the way.

1:56.0

Openly flamboyant and openly gay and dressed that way and presented myself that way.

2:07.6

When you have a painting by scooter, it really has a presence,

2:11.6

they become these objects that are charged.

2:15.6

And it's really like an act of magic.

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