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allwiredwrong · 4 months ago

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no way is that Antosha Kučera.. they’re a 24-year-old SYNTH notoriously known for being Destructive & Self Neglectful but there are some people who have seen them being Creative & Earnest. if you ask me, they remind me a lot of mismatched socks, broken clocks, lips that don’t know how to lie , but that could just be because they’re considered the Mood-Swinger around town. just keep an eye on them & see if their true colors shine through.

Name: Antosha Marek Kučera

Nickname(s): Anton

Age: 24 / March 15

FC: Asa Germann

Height: 5'10

Pronouns: he/they

Orientation: gay

Occupation: Artist

District: lower (formerly middle)

Relationship Status: Single (Open)

creative ⟩ earnest ⟩ gifted

destructive ⟩ self neglectful ⟩ compulsive

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For the first time I see An image of my brokenness Utterly worthy of love

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tw: child neglect (not sure if it would be exactly that, but like at least vibes of it/it's the closest thing I could think of to tag)

Antosha's parents always planned on having two kids, hoping to have two biological human children, however a difficult first pregnancy and doctors telling them another would be a risk to both mother and child they decided instead on going the synth route with their second.

Just like any other synth, Antosha's parents programmed him with traits they found to be desirable, leaning heavily into giving him traits of a creative. An artist and musician to be exact. If you looked at the list of traits they gave them to program into him you'd easily think they were trying to build a prodigy of some kind. Perhaps they were.

Unlike his older sibling Antosha struggled with making friends, often choosing to focus on his creative endeavors than socialize, and as a result becoming more than a little odd around other people.

Would find himself watching movies or the tv or even just people watching, trying to study how to just 'be normal.' like his parents wanted them to be. Never having said anything about it, but having more than once overheard them say things like "Why can't he just be normal?" or "I thought we did better at programming him than this."

Antosha was 13 when their parents decided to try again with a new synth child. Whatever programming they'd gotten wrong with him, they would get right this time.

The undesirable traits only continued to grow as he got older, and by the time he was 16 his parents were too busy with their new attempt, the one that they were going to make sure stayed perfect, to even care anymore.

Went to a back alley doctor for reprogramming. Thinking maybe if they did and had their personality reprogrammed to something else. Something more 'normal' that their parents wouldn't be upset at the way he'd turned out. That they would still want them to be their kid.

Instead of fixing him, however, the doctor wound up doing a botched job on Antosha. Whatever emotional regulation he had was fucked up, along with his ability to do things like recognize when they needed to do something like eat or sleep. It caused him to question whether or not something was real sometimes, no longer always able to tell what was real and what was just in his head, and would sometimes just 'glitch out' often losing time and memory of what happened during glitches, the way one might when blacked out.

While he was trying to fix himself because of his parents, he only wound up making things worse for himself on accident. His parents deciding they wanted nothing to do with him any longer and giving him money to leave and stay away.

Has been living in an apartment in the lower district working as a freelance artist, mostly working with paint, but having skills in other mediums as well.

Has received more than one noise complaint from playing music too loud at odd hours of the night.

Has respected their parents' wishes and stayed away all of these years

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greensparty · 6 years ago

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2019 IFFBoston - Part 2

Wed. night was the Opening Night of the 2019 Independent Film Festival Boston. I began my coverage of the festival on Friday (read Part 1 here) and the fun has continued!

Fri. April 26:

Alas I didn’t make any of the films. I will, however, be having a review at a later time of the documentary Not for Resale, which had a sold-out screening at Somerville Theatre. I made it on the later side to Flatbread Pizza for the Fri. Party, which was fun and I caught up with a ton of friends there.

Sat. April 27:

It was a big day at the fest with some very high-profile films. I didn’t make it to the fest until early evening, but during the day, Rep. Ayanna Pressley did an intro at Somerville Theatre for Knock Down the House, the documentary are four women who ran in the 2018 Election. Over at the Brattle they had Love, Antosha about the late great Anton Yelchin as well as Her Smell, which I can’t wait to see.

But I made it in time for the Centerpiece Film: Documentary Spotlight, the long-awaited doc WBCN and the American Revolution about one of the great Boston radio stations of all time, WBCN (1968-2009). When I was a teen and getting into music, I listened to WBCN 104.1-FM quite often in the early-mid 90s. They were a mixture of album-rock and classic rock, with very colorful DJs. When I was making my documentary about Boston’s music video TV station V66, I actually interviewed some former V66ers who were also WBCN alums including John Garabedian, Arnie “Woo Woo” Ginsburg, David O’Leary and Paul “Tank” Sferruzza, so I actually went into this knowing a lot about the 80s era of WBCN. This documentary is specifically about the early days from 1968 to 1974. Full disclosure: I do know director Bill Lichtenstein, who began working on this documentary around the same time I was working on the V66 doc. For Bill he had a real challenge in making this movie in that he didn’t have any archival footage at the time. The doc works as more than just a radio station documentary and is actually a historical documentary about the events that were happening at the time (i.e. Vietnam war, civil rights, Watergate). The film is a little long (over 2 hours), but there’s something remarkable about these renegade visionaries who started an indie radio station that became the voice of the Boston college students of that time. I will also add that Bill (or someone else for that matter) could actually make an interesting sequel about how WBCN eventually became corporate and different than what it began as. But let’s toast this year’s big Boston music outlet doc at IFFBoston (5 years to the day from when Life on the V: The Story of V66 premiered at the 2014 IFFBoston!). Following the screening, which was sold out, they had a lively Q&A with Bill and several WBCN alum.

The WBCN Q&A

After that, I attended the Sat. Party at the Porter Square Hotel. Fun times!

Sun. April 28:

Over at the Brattle, I stopped by to see the documentary You Don’t Nomi about the polarizing reactions and interpretations of the 1995 movie Showgirls. Full disclosure again: the producer of this doc is my friend and colleague Ariana Garfinkel, who attended this screening with director Jeffrey McHale.

In 1995, even before it was released, it was getting a lot of attention as being the first ever NC-17 movie to get a wide release. Director Paul Verhoeven’s $45 mil. film was a stripper drama made on a big Hollywood scale with Saved by the Bell’s Elizabeth Berkley. I saw it in college with a group of friends and it was pretty bad. Sure it’s entertaining for a teenage boy to see a movie about strippers, but as a film geek it was full of flaws. The film was a box office bomb and basically become a punch line. In Scream 2, Randy gets asked by the killer “What’s your favorite scary movie?” and he responds “Showgirls. Absolutely frightening.” But some filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino actually defended it. In the two decades since, it has actually amassed a cult following. Seriously. Midnight screenings began happening, musical renditions began popping up, and there’s been tons of books and articles defending it.

You Don’t Nomi is structured very similar to the excellent doc Room 237, which examines theories of The Shining, told by unseen commentators. It is very even-handed is having both positive and negative reactions from the commentators. Those that didn’t like it, go beyond the obvious complaints and get deeper into why it’s bad. But the fans are avid and breakdown some of the visual interpretations the average viewer might not have noticed. There is also a fascinating analysis of the gay community’s embrace of this as a metaphor for the LGTBQ youth experience. This is not a documentary about the making of Showgirls, however the editing of this is very clever in that it uses clips from several other Verhoeven films to unpack certain tropes of his films that appear in Showgirls. Love him or hate him, Verhoeven is a very talented filmmaker. In my Directing class in college, we watched and discussed Robocop, which is probably his magnum opus. While I don’t like all of his films, he is a cinematic provocateur.

Ariana and Jeffrey doing the Q&A

What is most intriguing about this film is that, whether you like or don’t like the subject is beside the point. It is really about getting inside of something so polarizing - and beyond that, getting into the cult fanbase that can see the value in something that populists aren’t seeing. Room 237 is a better film overall, but it is exciting to see filmmakers able to use that structure as a way of showcasing different film subjects.

Oh and BTW while I was at the Brattle, of all the seats to sit in, I sat in the Cruising In The Van Productions seat, the seat my producer and I purchased when the Brattle was in danger of closing in 2006!

Cruising In The Van Productions seat in the 5th row at The Brattle

Next: Tonight is the last day at Somerville and Brattle, then they move onto Coolidge Corner.

For info on IFFBoston: https://iffboston.org/

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