Another Annette Bening Mug

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Inspired by George Kuchar’s holiday tradition, ANOTHER ANNETTE BENING MUG is equal parts docudrama, absurdist POV cinema, and video diary.

Filmed in the 2023-2024 Christmas / New Year’s / awards season. Captured by iPhone video, screen recordings, and webcam, supplemented by phone calls from my grandma, voice notes from my friends, and punctuated with images and videos collected from the Internet during this time.

This is personal cinema: a time capsule and a tribute to my cat Fox, my movie-loving friends, the film community here in Portland, and the actresses I love — as we celebrate Xmas, New Year’s, Valentine’s Day, my 10-year sober anniversary, the 50th anniversary of a cinema goddess’s beloved classic, and a tour of Celebration from a pop icon — with Annette Bening’s Oscar campaign as its political backdrop.