the Syndicate of Human Image Traffickers
Personnel
Jeffrey Wengrofsky directs and produces the Syndicate. His films have screened internationally and across the US. (Consult Futurology page for details). He’s created a film festival a year for each of the past twelve years – Secrets of Outer Space, Secrets of Inner Space, Secrets of the Deep: Dreams on Film, Secrets of the Insect World, Secrets of the Intoxicated Life, Secrets of the Heart, Secrets of the Dead I -XI, and Secret Treaties. Wengrofsky has taught at New York University, The New School, and Rutgers University, and has worked for Aperture Photography Magazine, Coilhouse Magazine, and Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory. Wengrofsky also hosted Gift Horse: Inside New York Art, a weekly podcast series about the creative process, transmitted by Radio Initiativa (Lviv, Ukraine), for two seasons. He’s made faces in films by Mars Roberge and Gail Thacker, and in live theater productions by Cynthia von Buhler and the World/Inferno Friendship Society. Most recently, he’s given birth to The Wolfboy of Rego Park (Far West Press), and he’s hosting the Metropolis Literary Salon at TV Eye once a month. Beware.
As a teenager, Wengrofsky founded and edited Vehement Renaissance – The Official Fanzine of the Apocalypse.
Brian Wengrofsky is an accomplished SinEmoTographer who believes that balancing a life of vice and productive community service (aka filming bad boys and girls) is the S.H.I.T. His documentary credits include A Lion’s Trail, winner of the 2006 Emmy Award for Documentary Film, which was shown at Cannes and on PBS’s Independent Lens, as well as When The War Is Over and The Mother’s House, both of which aired on the Sundance Channel. In 2010, he shot his second season of Mal Zwischendurch (In Between) for German television, the narrative short Sponge, and documentary projects in Haiti and Indonesia. www.brianwengrofsky.com
David Kavanaugh is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker. His work in cinematography and lighting for film and television has taken him to exotic locations in North America, Africa, and Asia. Mr. Kavanaugh has worked on set with several of cinema’s established greats as well as a few of its up-and-coming darlings: Robert Frank (Don’t Blink), Ramin Bahrani, Lisa Rinzler, Michael Cuesta, Peter Sollett, Laurie Anderson (Heart of a Dog), Alex Gibney (Mea Culpa Maxima), Sean Durkin (Martha Marcy May Marlene), Paul Schrader (First Reformed), Jim Jarmusch (The Dead Don’t Die), and Bhen Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild). He prefers New York-style pizza over Chicago-style deep dish and is building a geodesic dome in the Catskills. In his free time, Mr. Kavanaugh enjoys editing and shooting for the Syndicate.
A variety of other fine art criminals have also contributed their might and muster to the cause, such as Le Bui, Chris Breal, Brendan McGowan, Graham Meisenheimer, Benjamin Cerf, Lance Pidgeon, Daniel Schanler, and Alex Zarnoski.