Where to From Here Moonplay Cinema

Where to From Here podcast host Jes Reyes talks with Atlas O Phoenix (they/them/theirs), a multi-award-winning director, writer, producer, and editor who creates films that examine the dark and light places of their humanity. These films are personal, powerful, and uninhibited. Additionally, they were an actor and performer for the legendary Dykes Do Drag (2017-2020) and The Naked I series (2018/2020).  Atlas' current film is Ordinary (2022), a documentary about their transition and mental health journey of 40+ years. It is a mini version of their film Beautiful Boi (in production).  

Episode Links: 

Instagram: @@beautiful_boi_atlas_phoenix

Website: https://www.beautifulboi.com/beautiful-boi-documentary 

Genderful Podcast: https://genderfulpodcast.com  



Theme music by Jes Reyes. Original recording date: January 8, 2023.

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Instagram: @moonplaycinema 

Email: moonplaycinema@gmail.com www.moonplaycinema.org

Jes talks with Beth Peloff, a video maker whose work encompasses animation,
documentary, and the intermingling of the two. In her animation work, she focuses
on 2D stop motion and computer-assisted animation using materials such as sand,
buttons, and watercolor-painted paper cutouts. Her films have screened throughout
the United States, including at the Athens Film and Video Festival, the Walker Art
Center, and the Cadence Video Poetry Festival in Seattle, WA, where her film won an
award for best collaboration. She was the recipient of a 2017 Jerome Foundation
Film and Video grant.

Through her video production company Green Jeans Media, she produces videos
and animations for nonprofit clients. She also teaches animation and video editing at
community-based organizations. She lives in Louisville, KY with her husband and
two cats.



Instagram: @wheretofromherepodcast

Email: moonplaycinema@gmail.com

www.moonplaycinema.org

Theme music by Jes Reyes.

Original recording date: August 13, 2022



Links:

http://greenjeansmedia.com/about/index.html

Jes Reyes speaks and laughs with CC Stanhill, a paper-based animator working in Minneapolis. Their films explore themes of queerness and fluidity. At least, that's what they think they're exploring. It's mostly weird shapes moving around in fancy patterns. They were once described by a prominent person as "quite a lucid sort of fellow."

Links/Social:

minnanimate.com (festival website)

#minnanimate (festival hashtag)

vimeo.com/cstanhill (personal website)

@cstanhill (Instagram handle)



Podcast info:

Instagram: @wheretofromherepodcast

Email: moonplaycinema@gmail.com

www.moonplaycinema.org

Theme music by Jes Reyes.

Original recording date: August 28, 2022

Jes Reyes speaks with Valérie Déus, a poet, film programmer, and radio show host. Her work has been featured in Minnesota Women’s Press, The Brooklyn Rail, Midway, the St. Paul Almanac, The BeZine, A Garden of Black Joy anthology, and Under Purple Skies: A Minneapolis Anthology. Her most recent essay is featured in What We Hunger For - Refugee and Immigrant Stories about Food and Family edited by Sun Yung Shin and published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press. When she's not writing, she is the host of Project 35, a local low-fi radio show on KRSM radio. She curates FilmNorth’s Cinema Lounge and is the Shorts Programmer for the Provincetown International Film Festival.

Instagram: @wheretofromherepodcast

Email: moonplaycinema@gmail.com

www.moonplaycinema.org

Theme music by Jes Reyes.

Original recording date: July 26, 2022

Links:

https://www.valeriedeus.com

https://walkerart.org/calendar/2022/filmnorth-cinema-lounge

Jes Reyes speaks with Merit Thursday, a local artist of the Twin Cities. Merit Thursday is an experimental animator, video artist, and textile artist. Their process is highly material-based, and they are fascinated by the human body. A member of the LGBTQ+ community, Thursday's works also focus on the queer identity, the queer fascination with artifice and fabrication, and the natural/unnatural forces that shape us.

Instagram: @wheretofromherepodcast

Email: moonplaycinema@gmail.com

www.moonplaycinema.org

Theme music by Jes Reyes.

Original recording date: July 30, 2022

Links:

http://meritthursday.com

Weird Stuff Only Submission Link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeqKPOY_aURnmXDhNeXKJhR6gEVUUSIJNs1YdNAAFGuQSjg4Q/viewform

Xiaolu Wang interviews award-winning filmmaker, writer, performance artist, and cultural producer, Naomi Ko. It's clean with some adult topics and cussing. 

Show links:

Check out FAWK at The Ordway on April 16: https://www.fawkollective.com/2022ordway

Cinema Lounge: https://filmnorth.org/cinema-lounge/

Learn more about Xiaolu here: https://www.hellox140lu.com

Learn more about Naomi here: http://www.konaomi.com/



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Theme music by Jes Reyes.

Original recording date: December 21, 2021