Actor Slash Model --

    Multimedia collective - Film, Music, Performance

 

 

Actor Slash Model describes the collaborative work of Simon Strikeback, an activist and educator, and Madsen Minax, an artist and filmmaker.

Through both music and film Actor Slash Model addresses issues of gender identity, gender performance and politics, a sex positive ideal, and the art making process. As a filmmaking duo, Actor Slash Model is currently producing a documentary chronicling gender identity and performance as it surrounds musicianship. The research for this project includes conducting in depth interviews, documenting the performances, rehearsals, and everyday interactions of trans and gender variant musicians across the United States and Canada. Through this project they seek to reveal a particularly active and vibrant realm of community and artistic excellence. To learn more about Actor Slash Model’s documentary film (working titles“Off The Beat”/The Actor Slash Model Documentary Project) please visit the film section of this website.

As a band, Actor Slash Model creates fun, quirky, entertaining music exploring gender and sex positivity as well as the most basic inspirations to all people: love, heartbreak, joy, pain, etc., set up in what they like to call an “Indie-Grass” musical style, often incorporating costumes and vaudvillian performative styles. To learn more about Actor Slash Model’s music please visit the music pages of this website. The duet recently toured the East Coast included Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadephia, New York, Boston, and Portland, ME. Read the tour blog and learn about the East coast musicians interviewed for the documentary project.

Actor Slash Model also currently co-organizes a bi-monthly queer film and video series in Chicago called Threat Level Queer Shorts. Please visit the Threat Level webpage for more info, and come to the September screening!

Join us Monday September 22nd
At Elegant Mr. Gallery
1355 N. Milwaukee Ave.
3rd Floor, 8pm

As Threat Level Queer Shorts welcomes guest curator Stacy Goldate and...

In Between the Bread and Butter
Passion Films of Hollywood Queers

This program of shorts features films and videos by queer folks working full-time in the television and film industry. Whether as a production assistant, gaffer, actor, editor, director, producer, etc, these artists have found time during their professional careers to make their own independent projects on their own terms, without studio funding. These films are a testament to the fact that Hollywood has many passionate queer filmmakers who have found a way to earn a living doing what they love, without compromising their ability tomake their own work.

"In Between the Bread and Butter" is curated by Stacy Goldate, who earns her bread and butter editing for television ("Cities of the Underworld," "The Mole") and edits and writes independent films whenever she finds the time ("Her Life as a Gigolo," "Dominatrix Waitrix," "Dive.")

Come wearing your most fabulous suits and gowns and inbetweens!! cuz we're gonna walk the red carpet, for real.

Doors open at 7:30, screening begins at 8pm

Threat Level Queer Shorts is a bi-monthly film and video screening series organized and curated by Sam Feder, Madsen Minax, Jules Rosskam and Simon Strikeback to screen works made by or featuring queer-faggot-dyke-homo-tranny-inbetween-the-liners-freaks! This event is put on to support the filmmaking duos of Feder/Rosskam and Minax/Strikeback as they raise funds and awareness for their current documentary film projects, respectively exploring trans feminism and gender identity in music performance.

Threat Level accept submissions year round. If you have a short film or video you'd like to submit to Threat Level, please send of DVD of your piece to "Threat Level" c/o Feder, 1265 W. Early #2, Chicago, IL 60660, or email threatlevelqueershorts (at) gmail.com