MIS/REGISTER

Terry Blade
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MIS/REGISTER is an independent audiovisual anthology that explores the intersections of art, sound, cinema, and cultural expression. The series presents an eclectic collection of experimental films, documentaries, audiovisual essays, music-driven productions, archival works, creative campaigns, and audio compositions. Each installment offers a distinct artistic experience, moving freely across subjects, genres, and disciplines. Through unconventional storytelling, visual experimentation, sound design, and creative reinterpretation, MIS/REGISTER challenges established conventions and embraces the possibilities of artistic expression beyond traditional boundaries. A Blade Arthouse Media presentation. #NOTFORCASUALCONSUMPTION

Episodes

  1. Oct 14 ·  Bonus Video

    The 5 Temperaments (Official Teaser-Trailer)

    Masculinity is never a single state of being. Within one body, desire, vulnerability, aggression, restraint and surrender compete for expression. This standalone teaser for Terry Blade's experimental dance film The 5 Temperaments distills the film's psychological tensions into music, rhythm, shifting intensity and release. Five distinct temperaments, Sanguine, Choleric, Melancholic, Phlegmatic and Supine, emerge as competing forces within the same self, each expressing a different relationship to desire, control, emotion and submission. The 5 Temperaments explores queer masculinity as an unstable, performative and internally divided experience. Through five interconnected movements, the film transforms personality into choreography, examining how desire, vulnerability, aggression, restraint and the need to belong shape the body, and how identity changes as different impulses assume control. Film: The 5 Temperaments Format: Official Teaser-Trailer Year: 2026 Director, Writer and Editor: Terry Blade Producers: Terry Blade and Larry Robertson Production Company: Eighth Interval Studio | Presented by: Blade Arthouse Media Agency: KUL/SHIFT Music: Ardie Son The 5 Temperaments was an official selection of the 2026 Cyprus International Film Festival, in its Music and Dance Films program. Its audiovisual teaser-trailer was also highlighted by Ads of the World. #NOTFORCASUALCONSUMPTION

  2. Oct 14 ·  Video

    American Franchise III: The Act - 1965

    American Franchise III: The Act - 1965 is the final audiovisual public-service announcement in American Franchise, a #YourVoteMatters civic campaign from KUL/SHIFT and Blade Arthouse Media. On January 15, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson spoke with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. about voting rights and the principle that every eligible American should have equal access to the vote. Their recorded conversation provides the archival foundation for the final installment of the series. American Franchise examines three moments in American voting history through archival audio, sound, music and editorial recontextualization: The Promise - 1944; The Demand - 1963; and The Act - 1965. Campaign: American Franchise | #YourVoteMatters In support of: National Voter Registration Day Agency: KUL/SHIFT Creative Director, Director, Editor and Copywriter: Terry Blade Production Company: Eighth Interval Studio Producers: Terry Blade and Larry Robertson Archival Audio: Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum Learn more about voter registration at NationalVoterRegistrationDay.org.

    American Franchise III: The Act - 1965

  3. Oct 14 ·  Video

    American Franchise II: The Demand - 1963

    American Franchise II: The Demand - 1963 is the second of three audiovisual PSAs in American Franchise, a #YourVoteMatters archival-documentary public-service campaign. On June 11, 1963, President John F. Kennedy addressed the nation on civil rights, including the right of every American to register and vote without interference or fear of reprisal. The spot reconnects that demand for equal citizenship to the continuing responsibility to participate in the electoral process. American Franchise examines three moments in American voting history through archival audio, sound, music and editorial recontextualization: The Promise - 1944; The Demand - 1963; and The Act - 1965. Campaign: American Franchise | #YourVoteMatters In support of: National Voter Registration Day Agency: KUL/SHIFT Creative Director, Director, Editor and Copywriter: Terry Blade Production Company: Eighth Interval Studio Producers: Terry Blade and Larry Robertson Archival Audio: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Learn more about voter registration at NationalVoterRegistrationDay.org.

    American Franchise II: The Demand - 1963

  4. Oct 14 ·  Video

    American Franchise I: The Promise - 1944

    American Franchise I: The Promise - 1944 is the first of three audiovisual PSAs in American Franchise, a #YourVoteMatters archival documentary public service campaign. On October 5, 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed the nation on the right to vote and equal access to the ballot. The spot places his words in a contemporary voter registration context and closes with a call to register to vote at NationalVoterRegistrationDay.org. American Franchise examines three moments in American voting history through archival audio, sound, music and editorial recontextualization: The Promise - 1944; The Demand - 1963; and The Act - 1965. Campaign: American Franchise | #YourVoteMatters In support of: National Voter Registration Day Agency: KUL/SHIFT Creative Director, Director, Editor and Copywriter: Terry Blade

    American Franchise I: The Promise - 1944

  5. Oct 2 ·  Bonus Video

    My Gender Is Black (Official Teaser-Trailer)

    Before a Black body can define itself, it is already being read, categorized and named. This standalone teaser for Terry Blade's experimental documentary My Gender Is Black compresses the film's central tension into voice, music, rhythm and silence. A sequence of imposed labels gives way to a broader question about how race, gender, sexuality, desire and performance become layered onto the same body. My Gender Is Black examines how expectation, performance, vulnerability, punishment and refusal shape Black masculinity, sexuality and gender, and what becomes possible when the Black body answers for itself. Film: My Gender Is Black Format: Official Teaser-Trailer Year: 2026 Director, Writer, Editor and Producer: Terry Blade Music Supervision: Terry Blade and Larry Robertson Production Company: Eighth Interval Studio | Presented by: Blade Arthouse Media Agency: KUL/SHIFT Music: "Maybe It's Over" by Messwave / Artlist Original The audiovisual teaser for My Gender Is Black received a Gold Dolphin at the 2026 Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards in "Trailers and Teasers for Documentaries and Reports." #NOTFORCASUALCONSUMPTION

  6. Oct 2

    American Franchise III: The Act - 1965

    American Franchise III: The Act - 1965 is the final audio public-service announcement in American Franchise, a #YourVoteMatters civic campaign from KUL/SHIFT and Blade Arthouse Media. On January 15, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson spoke with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. about voting rights and the principle that every eligible American should have equal access to the vote. Their recorded conversation provides the archival foundation for the final installment of the series. American Franchise examines three moments in American voting history through archival audio, sound, music and editorial recontextualization: The Promise - 1944; The Demand - 1963; and The Act - 1965. Campaign: American Franchise | #YourVoteMatters In support of: National Voter Registration Day Agency: KUL/SHIFT Creative Director, Director, Editor and Copywriter: Terry Blade Production Company: Eighth Interval Studio Producers: Terry Blade and Larry Robertson Archival Audio: Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum Learn more about voter registration at NationalVoterRegistrationDay.org.

    American Franchise III: The Act - 1965

  7. Oct 2

    American Franchise II: The Demand - 1963

    American Franchise II: The Demand - 1963 is the second of three audio PSAs in American Franchise, a #YourVoteMatters archival-documentary public-service campaign. On June 11, 1963, President John F. Kennedy addressed the nation on civil rights, including the right of every American to register and vote without interference or fear of reprisal. The spot reconnects that demand for equal citizenship to the continuing responsibility to participate in the electoral process. American Franchise examines three moments in American voting history through archival audio, sound, music and editorial recontextualization: The Promise - 1944; The Demand - 1963; and The Act - 1965. Campaign: American Franchise | #YourVoteMatters In support of: National Voter Registration Day Agency: KUL/SHIFT Creative Director, Director, Editor and Copywriter: Terry Blade Production Company: Eighth Interval Studio Producers: Terry Blade and Larry Robertson Archival Audio: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Learn more about voter registration at NationalVoterRegistrationDay.org.

  8. Oct 2

    American Franchise I: The Promise - 1944

    American Franchise I: The Promise - 1944 is the first of three audio PSAs in American Franchise, a #YourVoteMatters archival documentary public service campaign. On October 5, 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed the nation on the right to vote and equal access to the ballot. The spot places his words in a contemporary voter registration context and closes with a call to register to vote at NationalVoterRegistrationDay.org. American Franchise examines three moments in American voting history through archival audio, sound, music and editorial recontextualization: The Promise - 1944; The Demand - 1963; and The Act - 1965. Campaign: American Franchise | #YourVoteMatters In support of: National Voter Registration Day Agency: KUL/SHIFT Creative Director, Director, Editor and Copywriter: Terry Blade Production Company: Eighth Interval Studio Producers: Terry Blade and Larry Robertson Archival Audio: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum Learn more about voter registration at NationalVoterRegistrationDay.org.

  9. 12/14/2025

    Chicago Kinfolk: The Juke Joint Blues

    Chicago Kinfolk: The Juke Joint Blues is an audio monograph by Terry Blade conceived as a 1970s Chicago juke joint brought to life through sound. The work functions as an ethnographic blues document and a composed listening experience, blending Blade's original songs with restored archival interview excerpts recorded in 1977 to place living voices of the tradition in direct dialogue with the present.  Built from meticulous research and curation of public-domain archival recordings, the project draws from materials associated with the Chicago Ethnic Arts Project Collection held by the American Folklife Center at the U.S. Library of Congress. Issued intact, it is meant to be experienced beginning to end as a single, finished work rather than a talk-format episode.

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About

MIS/REGISTER is an independent audiovisual anthology that explores the intersections of art, sound, cinema, and cultural expression. The series presents an eclectic collection of experimental films, documentaries, audiovisual essays, music-driven productions, archival works, creative campaigns, and audio compositions. Each installment offers a distinct artistic experience, moving freely across subjects, genres, and disciplines. Through unconventional storytelling, visual experimentation, sound design, and creative reinterpretation, MIS/REGISTER challenges established conventions and embraces the possibilities of artistic expression beyond traditional boundaries. A Blade Arthouse Media presentation. #NOTFORCASUALCONSUMPTION

Information

  • Creator
    Terry Blade
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    9
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026
  • Show Website
    MIS/REGISTER