On Tuesday, November 13, The Syndicate of Human Image Traffickers screened Jo Boobs Teaches the Va-Va-Voom and Marti Domination in the Life of Dreams and director Jeffrey Wengrofsky was DJ at a benefit for Occupy Sandy at The Delancey (168 Delancey Street, NYC).
The Syndicate's new film, Marti Domination in the Life of Dreams, premiered as an Official Selection of the Brownfish Film Festival on November 3rd 2012 at Cinema Village (12th Street bw University and Fifth Avenue, New York City).
The Party in Talyor Mead's Kitchen will be screening with Jo Boobs Teaches the Va-Va-Voom and Getting Out of Bed with Richard Foreman at Reelfest Boston 2012. We look forward to seeing you seeing us.
The Party in Taylor Mead's Kitchen was shown as an Official Selection of New Filmmakers New York at Anthology Film Archives in New York on July 25, 2012.
Jeffrey Wengrofsky is in his second season as Dr. Thomas Gonzales, the Chief Medical Examiner of New York, in Speakeasy Dollhouse. The play was written and is being directed by Cynthia von Buhler and takes place in an actual former speakeasy in the Lower East Side of New York. It will run through the end of 2012. Follow the advice of Bowery Boogie: "Don't forget to stop by the medical examiner's office."
Speakeasy Dollhouse
Photography by Margee Challa
Dominick Grimaldi as played by Edgar Oliver
Jeffrey Wengrofsky as Dr. Thomas Gonzales
The Party in Taylor Mead's Kitchen made its New England premiere at the historic Brattle Theater in Cambridge on May 11, 2012 at 9:00pm as part of a double feature with Jobraith A.D., a film about the short-lived glam rocker. The Syndicate thanks Boston LGBT Film Festival and the Brattle Theater for their reckless programing.
Microscope Gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn had an all-Syndicate program featuring: Getting Out of Bed With Richard Foreman, Jo Boobs Teaches the Va-Va Voom, and The Party in Taylor Mead's Kitchen on Saturday, March 24 at 7:00.
The Party in Taylor Mead's Kitchen was shown in conjunction with an exhibit of the paintings of Taylor Mead on February 10, 2012 in Chelsea at Churner & Churner.
churnerandchurner.com/events/february-10-the-party-in-taylor-meads-kitchen-2
Photograph by Simon Luethi of 8 Salamander Productions
On January 31, 2012, "The Party in Taylor Mead's Kitchen" was screened as part of the "Stranger Than Fiction" film series at the Independent Film Center (the IFC Theater) in New York City. Our film was chosen to kick off the Spring 2012 Stranger Than Fiction season. The ticketholders' line snaked around the block.
Photograph by Heather Allen
The Syndicate of Human Image Traffickers is delighted to announce that its latest film, "The Party in Taylor Mead's Kitchen," was an Official Selection of DOC NYC 2011, the documentary film festival of the Independent Film Channel. "The Party in Taylor Mead's Kitchen" premiered to 316 people on November 6th at New York University's Kimmel Center, played again on November 7th in the large theater at the Independent Film Center, and screened a third time, on November 10th at the IFC.
In February 2012, Jeffrey Wengrofsky returned for a second season as Dr. Thomas Gonzales, the Chief Medical Examiner of New York, in Speakeasy Dollhouse. The play was written and is being directed by Cynthia von Buhler and takes place in an actual former speakeasy in the Lower East Side of New York.
Photograph by Margee Challa
with Nicole Schiff as Nurse Bessie Stitch
As recently interviewed by National Magazine Award-winning Tablet magazine for their Long Story Short podcast about how punk relates to Jewish history: http://www.tabletmag.com/arts-and-culture/music/78206/rejects/
Listen to the podcast here.
Jeffrey Wengrofsky was the DJ at Coilhouse's party on August 21, 2011.
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"As you may well imagine, this is not easy art. It may leave the theatergoer uneasy - even queasy - amid buzzers, flashing lights, warped music, and the voice of un-reason."
"Jo Boobs and I met at the basement headquarters of her school on the coldest evening in recent years to explore questions of gender, activism, and whether she and her ilk are gender traitors or gender busters."
"He's never had a "Plan B" of any kind whatsoever. He just jumped out his window and - wooosh! - he started flying."
"...Armed with this identity, he enters churches of consumption - like the Disney store in Times Square - to project a powerful message opposing corporate retail, a culture of consumerism, and the encroachment of our public spaces."
