I spoke about this not too long ago, but 2024 has found me twice contributing to documentary films. The first one — which has yet see the light of day — was for a film about the divining of Charly Garcia Corner in TriBeca at Cortlandt Alley and Walker Street. I’m hoping that surfaces soon, but we’ll see.
The second one, meanwhile, was for my great friend Rob’s niece, Katie Araimo. Longtime readers might remember an entry I posted in 2018 wherein Katie, for a school project, put together an extensive, interactive website that mapped out the since-vanished network of independent record shops in Manhattan that her uncle and I used to frequent. Taking the project a step further, Katie — now a film student and budding documentarian at The New School — put together a short film on record store culture then and now. She approached me to participate, and given my affinity for pompously bloviating on that very subject, I obliged.
This is the finished product. I’m delighted to also relay that at the film’s premiere screening a couple of weeks back at the New Screen Fest at the DCTV Cinema for Documentary Film, our Katie won the Audience Award for her film.
I was bemused to see myself appearing throughout the short film, including discussing the Piece, Man single by Cop Shoot Cop during the end credits. I’m a very silly person.
In any case, please enjoy the fruit of Katie’s very hard work and overlook my idiocy:
B-Sides from Catherine Araimo on Vimeo.
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