Syndicate of Human Image Traffickers

The Syndicate of Human Image Traffickers is an independent producer of web content aiming at exposure and examination of art, artists, movements, events, and organizations.

Our current project is a series of short (10 minute) documentary films that examine the politics and aporias of creativity. On the 2nd of November in 2009, the Syndicate began web broadcast with “The Gospel According to Reverend Billy.” On December 6, 2009, we released “Jack Terricloth is Alive and Well in Gotham,” an in-depth bioptic on the World/Inferno vocalist’s Peter Pan-like life. In January of 2010, the Syndicate commenced broadcast of “Jo Boobs Teaches YOU to Va-Va Voom,” a conversation with Jo “Boobs” Weldon, the Headmistress of the New York School of Burlesque on gender performance. In March 2010, the Syndicate published "Getting Out of Bed with Richard Foreman," a meditation on art and audience with the MacArthur "genius" Award-winning playwright. The Syndicate will broadcast a film on the politics of the non-violent anarchist revolution starring Judith Malina, the Director of The Living Theater, in April and will release a film on Warhol Superstar Taylor Mead in May of this year.

Each of our films has a soundtrack. To date, Syndicate soundtracks have been commissioned to members of: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Hold Steady, The World/Inferno Friendship Society, The Mars Volta, The Buddy Hollycost, Exorcismo del Capitalismo, and The Nixon-Mao Handshake. Our reel of coming contraptions (see above!) was scored by J.G. Thirlwell aka Foetus. The Syndicate’s is adorned by still photography produced by erstwhile collaborators such as: Tina Zimmer, Rose Callahan, Gregory Holm, and Ian Couch.

In the months to come, we will shoot interviews with: sex workers about the economy, photographer Sarah Small, the ABCNORIO collective, filmmaker Martha Colburn, filmmaker Bruce LaBruce, and consider the life of dreams with Marti Domination (star of Matthew Barney’s “Cremaster” cycle). Each of these films will be broadcast on this website [www.humansyndicate.com/human) and on the blog of Coilhouse [www.coilhouse.net] magazine.

The Syndicate of Human Image Traffickers thanks you for your time and interest.