Vintage Annals Archive Podcast

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We talk deep dives into any and all the subjects we research for the podcast. We tend to focus more on artists that dug deeper into the work and themselves in what they offered to the world. We tell stories of everyday people, visionaries, and outsiders. We also present histories of the past to help navigate the present. We present a unique form of interview, conversation, and storytelling in an organic manner and focus on art, culture, music, film, and more. Hosted by: 1) Rich Wexler, founder and curator of the @vintageannalsarchive Instagram Based in beautiful West Philadelphia.

  1. Ep. 200: Guy Maddin (Filmmaker)

    FEB 23

    Ep. 200: Guy Maddin (Filmmaker)

    Ep. 200: Guy Maddin (Filmmaker) Guy Maddin has directed thirteen feature-length movies, most recently Rumours (2024), starring Cate Blanchett and Alicia Vikander; as well as The Forbidden Room (2015), My Winnipeg (2007), and The Saddest Music in the World (2003). He has also mounted over seventy performances of his films around the world featuring live elements – orchestra, sound effects, singing and narration — most recently, The Green Fog (2016), which was accompanied live by the Kronos Quartet. His screenplay collaborators include Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro and poet John Ashbery. His movies Archangel (1990) & The Heart of the World (2000) both won National Society of Film Critics Awards for Best Experimental Film. For the past 15 years he has partnered with co-directors Evan and Galen Johnson. "No one makes films like fabulist Guy Maddin. From his home in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Maddin is isolated from the facile preoccupations and coarse trends which plague the majority of Hollywood films nowadays. It could be argued, though, that he is also estranged from what passes for independent cinema. Truly a stranger in a strange land. But what a strange land indeed! His films are black comedic excursions into the netherworlds of silent film, but he also has an uncanny feel for replicating images and sounds from painting, classical music, and literature. They could easily become a pretentious mess in less-skilled hands, yet Maddin’s melodramatic films are anything but. They’re playful, complex, hilarious, and exquisite; a perfect melange of high art and camp. Cinematic images that can only be described as post-modern phantasms. Perhaps the only other filmmaker today who is so comfortable reworking such melodramatic terrain is - Lars von Trier His films include 1988 - Tales from the Gimli Hospital 1990 - Archangel 1992 - Careful 1995 - Sissy-Boy Slap-Party 2002 - Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary 2003 - Cowards Bend the Knee 2003 - The Saddest Music in the World 2006 - Brand Upon the Brain! 2007 - My Winnipeg 2017 - The Green Fog 2024 - Rumours Guy is currently busy colour-correcting the 4K restoration of his film CAREFUL (1992) so please keep an eye out on his Instagram guy.maddin for updates. https://www.instagram.com/guy.maddin PLEASE SUPPORT OUR PATREON AND/OR BANDCAMP so we can pay our guests!!! And do another 5 seasons. You will receive video only releases of the episodes for most episodes via Patreon or Bandcamp Episodes available there for subscribers who am sad I get free ads and collabs opportunities on our Instagram with 191,000 followers! Great value! https://vintageannalsarchivepodcast.bandcamp.com https://patreon.com/VintageAnnalsArchive Credits Stephen Bluhm - Sound Engineer and episode editor ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.stephenbluhm.fun⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Rich Wexler Producer/Interviewer https://www.instagram.com/vintageannalsarchiveandpodcast ⁠⁠⁠http://www.vintageannalsarchive.com Episode Editors Otter Castro https://www.instagram.com/ottercastro

    1h 48m
  2. Ep. 199: Art Show! with Captain Skinner

    FEB 17

    Ep. 199: Art Show! with Captain Skinner

    ART SHOW! WITH CAPTAIN SKINNER A “how-to” series unlike any other.  Bob Ross on LSD meets The Evil Dead… in Space. Premiering on YouTube and Substack on Friday, February 13 with new episodes weekly from Friday, March 6. TUNE IN! YOU TUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@EtchFilm SUBSCRIBE: etchstudio.substack.com ART SHOW! WITH CAPTAIN SKINNER follows the misadventures of a doomed PBS-style television series. As Skinner and his tiny crew (including the stop motion animated Space Cowboy) attempt to produce a television series in outer space, their efforts are constantly thwarted by – well – everything from meteor showers to intrusive thoughts to the stark horror of an uncaring cosmos.  ART SHOW! WITH CAPTAIN SKINNER is comprised of 10 episodes, each running around 15 minutes in length. In each episode, we watch as Skinner creates a unique and stunning piece of artwork.  The show is a bombastic, futuristic, gore and color-saturated love letter to shows like The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross and Commander Mark and the Secret City. ART SHOW! flips the script by oozing hyper-phantasmagorical slapstick, body-horror, and off-the wall comedy.  SKINNER Co-creator/Writer/Star Skinner is a beloved artist, creator, comedian, writer, and general manifestation of psychedelic nightmare experiences who has infected many medias worldwide! He’s created art for Grammy winning albums and bands like High on Fire and Mastodon, award-winning music videos and films, commercial experiences for Adult Swim, Warner Brothers, and hosted shows for Super Deluxe and various music festivals. You can find his art on murals the world over as well as on skateboards and comics and t-shirts and toys. Skinner exists as a bizarre mixture of entertainment and visual intensity.  https://www.theartofskinner.com https://www.instagram.com/theartofskinner ALLEN CORDELL Co-creator/Writer/Director Allen is an award-winning filmmaker obsessed with things that are weird and beautiful, especially when filmed at 24 frames per second and layered with insane sound design. He’s directed a handful of music videos for Beach House, Dan Deacon, Girl Talk (and others!), as well as the short film The Lizard Laughed adapted from a comic book by Noah Van Sciver.  ABOUT ETCH  ETCH is an independent animation and production company run by the award-winning trio of Emmy and WGA Award-winner Philip Gelatt (The Spine Of Night, Europa Report, They Remain, The Bleeding House and Love Death + Robots), Will Battersby (The Spine Of Night, They Remain, Trumbo) and Morgan Galen King (The Spine Of Night).  Specializing in the provocative, intelligent and innovative, as well as fantastical and horrific, Etch seeks to put the dark magic back into moving images.  ETCH has expertise in animation, documentary and feature production and a core philosophy of maintaining ownership and creative control through novel approaches to production and distribution.  Recent projects include FIRST WORD ON HORROR featuring award-winning authors Stephen Graham Jones, Paul Tremblay, Elizabeth Hand, Laird Barron, and Mariana Enriquez. Upcoming projects include CASSIE WORKMAN IS WITCHY AF, featuring Australian comedienne Cassie Workman and Produced by Lily Wachowski and ART SHOW! WITH CAPTAIN SKINNER featuring infamous Oakland artist and multi-hyphenate Skinner. FOLLOW ETCH: etchfilm.com / @etchfilm Credits Stephen Bluhm - Sound Engineer and episode editor ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.stephenbluhm.fun⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Rich Wexler Producer/Interviewer ⁠⁠⁠http://www.vintageannalsarchive.com Episode Editors Otter Castro https://www.instagram.com/ottercastro

    2h 4m

  3. FEB 16 · BONUS

    Please join our Patreon!

    I’m in need of doing the podcast for now on in an independent manner and going to be working on that over the next 3-6 months. All prior episodes will stay up! There is no such thing as a free podcast, album, film, and most of these platforms keep 95% of the profits. It’s just not a system I can ethically support any longer. I don’t mind spending $4000-5000 a year to do this but I’m sick of not benefiting from these systems. My patreon has been updated a lot as of late and has a lot of amazing uncensored content I can’t post on Instagram. I’m releasing early episodes and video only episodes. If you like the podcast I need to ask you to support it. I get no money from Spotify and no money from Apple Podcasts and yet they sell ads and still make money. I’m just done working my ass off to make billionaires richer. I’d also like to have enough money to throw some of it to our guests. We are going to be putting out our 200th episode as a two parter with Bonnie Prince Billy and Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin. I’m lucky to get some amazing guests but I’m done with having no way to monetize any of it. Please do your part to help if you consume the podcast. www.patreon.com/vintageannalsarchive

    6 min
  4. Ep. 198: Deborah Dash Moore Walkers in the City: Jewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York

    FEB 9

    Ep. 198: Deborah Dash Moore Walkers in the City: Jewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York

    Deborah Dash Moore Walkers in the City: Jewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York - In the middle of the twentieth century, good cameras became smaller and lighter, enabling street photographers to roam alleyways, ride elevated trains and subways, and stroll beaches in summertime to capture daily life with urgency and intimacy. Walkers in the City showcases the distinctive urban vision that working-class Jewish photographers produced with these new cameras on New York City's streets and in public spaces. Drawing on the experiences of and photographs by a generation of young Jewish photographers who belonged to the New York Photo League, Deborah Dash Moore offers a new perspective on New York as seen through their eyes--a cityscape of working-class people and democratizing public transit. With their cameras, they pictured Gotham's abrasive social milieu and its evanescent textures and light, creating an archive of vernacular images of city life and a distinctive tradition of street photography that would be widely imitated. Walkers in the City documents how these roving, imaginative New Yorkers, entranced by the medium of photography, transformed everyday sights into rousing, joyous, and poignant moments of time, creating visual poetry out of the fabric of social life. About Deborah Dash Moore - Deborah Dash Moore is an American Jewish historian whose scholarship focuses on Jewish urban life, the creation of ethnic identity, and visual culture. Much of her work has concentrated on New York’s vibrant Jewish community, uncovering its neighborhoods, streets, institutions, and photographic images.  She has also explored the postwar Jewish culture of America’s Sunbelt, ventured into the experience of Jews who served in World War II, and examined the impact of women and gender in Jewish life.  Moore has been a trailblazer in the field of American Jewish history who has chronicled the myriad expressions of Jewish culture in 20th-century America. She has been an influential teacher and mentor as well as a key leader in the field of modern Jewish history. https://lsa.umich.edu/history/people/faculty/ddmoore.html Credits Stephen Bluhm - Sound Engineer and episode editor ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.stephenbluhm.fun⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Rich Wexler Producer/Interviewer ⁠⁠⁠http://www.vintageannalsarchive.com Episode Editors Otter Castro https://www.instagram.com/ottercastro

    1h 7m
  5. Ep. 177: Beau McCall (aka The Button Man) and Souleo (Icon of Harlem)

    FEB 3

    Ep. 177: Beau McCall (aka The Button Man) and Souleo (Icon of Harlem)

    Beau McCall—proclaimed by American Craft magazine as “The Button Man creates visual and wearable art by hand-sewing clothing buttons onto mostly upcycled fabrics, materials, and objects. His artworks offer commentary on an array of topics such as pop culture and social justice.  Buttons are a universal fastener connecting the world through an everyday item. Through this medium I create visual and wearable artworks by hand-sewing clothing buttons onto mostly upcycled fabrics, materials, and objects. My goal is to generate a dialogue by using buttons to expand the definition of art, stimulate one’s curiosity and imagination, draw attention to the unique history of buttons, and address a vast array of themes including pop culture and social justice. https://beaumccall.com Souleo Creative. Curator. Impresario. Consultant. Muse. Souleo has been hailed as an “Icon of Harlem” (Ruth Millington, art historian and author of Muse) and “Harlem’s Heart & Soul” (NY Daily News). An acclaimed creative, curator, writer, impresario, consultant, and muse he seamlessly merges the worlds of visual art, fashion, literature, media, and the performing arts to document and amplify the stories of the emerging and underrepresented via exhibitions, events, and writing. https://souleouniverse.com Credits Stephen Bluhm - Sound Engineer and episode editor ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.stephenbluhm.fun⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Rich Wexler Producer/Interviewer ⁠⁠⁠http://www.vintageannalsarchive.com Episode Editors Otter Castro https://www.instagram.com/ottercastro

    41 min
  6. Ep. 196: Kathy Shorr (Photographer)

    JAN 27

    Ep. 196: Kathy Shorr (Photographer)

    Kathy Shorr was born in Brooklyn, New York.  Her work crosses the borders of documentary, portraiture and street photography.  She received her undergraduate degree in photography from The School of Visual Arts and has an MS in Education, earned while working as a New York City Teaching Fellow working in the public schools in crisis.  Her work has been shown in galleries throughout the United States and Europe including the celebrated Visa Pour L’Image for photo journalism in Perpignan, France.   Her first book, SHOT … 101 Survivors of Gun Violence in America was published by powerHouse Books in 2017. Her second book, Limousine was published in December 2024 by Lazy Dog Press. She lives and works in New York City. https://www.kathyshorr.com https://www.instagram.com/katshorr Credits Stephen Bluhm - Sound Engineer and episode editor ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.stephenbluhm.fun⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Rich Wexler Producer/Interviewer ⁠⁠⁠http://www.vintageannalsarchive.com Episode Editors Otter Castro https://www.instagram.com/ottercastro

    47 min
  7. Ep. 195: Scarlet Page (Photographer)

    JAN 19

    Ep. 195: Scarlet Page (Photographer)

    Scarlet Page has been a passionate photographer her whole life and her education culminated in studying a degree in photography in the early ’90s. She quickly developed her own fresh, documentary style of reportage. She travelled America with The Smashing Pumpkins, The Beastie Boys and the other acts on the Lollapolooza tour of 1994.  The following year she had a shot feature in the album artwork of The Verve’s ‘A Northern Soul'. Working on ‘A Northern Soul’ accelerated Scarlet’s career and since then she has gone on to work with some of the music world’s biggest acts. She worked closely with Robbie Williams on several projects including album artwork, behind the scenes material and the acclaimed book ‘Somebody Someday’. She has toured the World extensively with bands such as The Darkness, Placebo, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, The Rolling Stones and Stereophonics. Her photographs have been used to grace album covers, album artwork, tour material, book covers and as collected prints. She continues to be commissioned by all the major record labels to shoot artwork, press and marketing campaigns for international bands. Scarlet’s calm demeanour and professional approach have enabled her to diversify the subjects that she photographs. Subsequently she now works closely with an interesting variety of clients including Fearne Cotton and her Happy Place Festival brand, The Henley Literary Festival (capturing celebrity writers, politicians, bloggers, TV personalities etc) and inspiring business women such as Jo Tutchener Sharp, founder of clothing brand Scamp and Dude, to create content for all of her platforms. Scarlet has also worked extensively for charities including CALM, PDSA, Teenage Cancer Trust and Warchild. Exhibitions of her work have been shown at The Royal Albert Hall, Proud Gallery, Camden and, in 2019, Scarlet exhibited and worked with local celebrated musicians in Buenos Aires as part of her Resonators + project. Since the pandemic there has been a huge interest in Scarlet’s archive work - her limited edition prints alongside her weekly ‘words behind the shot’ videos have been gaining a cult following. In 2020 she was selected as a winner of The British Journal of Photography’s ‘Portrait of Britain’ award and she has become an active member of the Association of Photographers and its associated women’s group f22. In 2022 Scarlet proudly became a Nikon Ambassador, she has used the brand throughout her 30 year career. In 2023 Scarlet exhibited simultaneously in Oxfordshire, New York and Sydney Australia. In September 2024 Behind The Gallery presented '30' Exhibition in London, celebrating 30 years of being a music photographer. In 2025 Scarlet was a judge for The Abbey Road Music Photography Awards. EXPOSED: Three Years With Placebo book was released in October 2025 and the deluxe edition sold out in minutes. https://www.scarletpage.com https://www.instagram.com/scarletpage Credits Stephen Bluhm - Sound Engineer and episode editor ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.stephenbluhm.fun⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Rich Wexler Producer/Interviewer ⁠⁠⁠http://www.vintageannalsarchive.com Episode Editors Otter Castro https://www.instagram.com/ottercastro

    1h 12m
  8. Ep. 194: Fck My Son w/ Director Todd Rohal

    JAN 12

    Ep. 194: Fck My Son w/ Director Todd Rohal

    Ep. 194: Fck My Son w/ Director Todd Rohal Todd Rohal is a writer and director whose work has appeared on Adult Swim, Netflix, Hulu, HBO, Max, AMC, Amazon, and The Criterion Channel. His feature credits include The Guatemalan Handshake, which he self-distributed worldwide with a single 35mm print; The Catechism Cataclysm (IFC Films), which premiered at Sundance; Nature Calls, starring Patton Oswalt, Rob Riggle, and Johnny Knoxville; and Uncle Kent 2, winner of the Audience Award for Visions at SXSW. His most recent feature, F**k My Son!, premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival and is currently being distributed around the world as a theatrical-only event. An alumnus of the Sundance Writers Labs, Rohal’s short film Rat Pack Rat won the Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision at Sundance, and his work has been selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick on six occasions. He has created original work for Adult Swim, directed episodes of Netflix’s Haters Back Off series and Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell, and wrote the screenplay for Chris Columbus’s third Christmas Chronicles film for Netflix. About Fck My Son Sprung from the irreverent imagination of Johnny Ryan, whose notorious comics have satirically provoked every sacred cow under the sun since the early 1990s, and copulating with the sensibilities of Todd Rohal (The Catechism Cataclysm), one of America’s most anarchic contemporary surrealists, F**k My Son! is the most abject exercise in poor taste since Pink Flamingos. Akin to being sneezed upon by Dan Aykroyd’s penile nose from Nothing But Trouble (google it), this is an uncut, unclean geek show of odious viscosity and a gleefully depraved spectacle that will leave Midnighters gasping, gagging, and/or guffawing with infectious laughter — at least for those who have accepted their eternal damnation in Hell. Instagram Fck My Son https://www.instagram.com/fckmyson Todd Rohal https://www.instagram.com/toddrohal Credits Stephen Bluhm - Sound Engineer and episode editor ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.stephenbluhm.fun⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Rich Wexler Producer/Interviewer ⁠⁠⁠http://www.vintageannalsarchive.com Episode Editors Otter Castro https://www.instagram.com/ottercastro

    1h 3m
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We talk deep dives into any and all the subjects we research for the podcast. We tend to focus more on artists that dug deeper into the work and themselves in what they offered to the world. We tell stories of everyday people, visionaries, and outsiders. We also present histories of the past to help navigate the present. We present a unique form of interview, conversation, and storytelling in an organic manner and focus on art, culture, music, film, and more. Hosted by: 1) Rich Wexler, founder and curator of the @vintageannalsarchive Instagram Based in beautiful West Philadelphia.

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  • Creator
    Vintage Annals Archive
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    213
  • Rating
    Explicit
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