A Family Finds Entertainment

A Family Finds Entertainment chronicles the story of mixed up teenager Skippy and his adventures in ‘coming out’. In this over the top celebration of queerness, Trecartin’s film mines the bizarre and endearing in an unabashed pastiche of ‘bad tv’ tropes. Cheesy video special effects, dress-up chess costumes, desperate scripts, and ‘after school special’ melodrama combine in the fluency of youth-culture lingo, reflecting a generation both damaged and affirmed by media consumption.

• Ryan TrecartinDirector
• Ryan TrecartinWriter

• Ryan TrecartinShin / Skippy / Closet Monster / Booty Girl / Snowy White Girl / Video Face
• Lizzie FitchCosmos Bitch / Linda / Fisher Woman / Orange Tamber
• Alison PowellPhalangena
• Lindsay BeebeLittle Boogerface / Blueberry Muffin / Hell Boy
• Annette K. BoninMom
• Muffy BrandtThe Married Virgin
• Kathleen BrennanMichelella
• Ben CarlsonBen / Blue Bubble D / Jane
• Laura ColellaDocumentary Video Artist Zoey Spelling
• Brent CowleyBruce
• Kenny CurranWhite Lips Bloody Knees / Ed / Tamber
• Erin DunnPatty May