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Episode 269: Interview with Bret Berg, Creator/VJ/“Mad Scientist” of the Museum of Home Video
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With special guest Bret Berg (Theatrical Sales Director at the American Genre Film Archive and Creator/VJ at the Museum of Home Video)!
Bret Berg created the Museum of Home Video, a weekly stream comprising archival footage like commercials, TV shows, movies, and more, all edited for the quickest-hit emotional impact possible. Before he hosted two live MHV presentations at the Trylon (RING, RING: A DOORBELL CAM FANTASIA and THE MUSEUM OF HOME VIDEO’S GUIDE TO INFOMERCIALS), Bret sat down with us to chat about the project, his work, and the state of download culture.
In this special interview episode, we discuss...
- The makings of a found footage showcase
- Meeting the Trylon's John Moret and Barry Kryshka a decade ago
- How you find the humanity in thousands of hours of strange, torrented content
- Young Sheldon
- What all this must be doing to Bret’s brain
Find the Museum of Home Video’s streams at https://www.museumofhomevideo.com/
Follow the Museum of Home Video on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/museumofhomevideo/
Get tickets to RING, RING: A DOORBELL CAM FANTASIA and THE MUSEUM OF HOME VIDEO’S GUIDE TO INFOMERCIALS (March 15-17 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/film/the-museum-of-home-video-live-and-in-person/all/
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Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at trylon.org.
Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Closing audio: “Hit It and Quit It” by Funkedelic (heard in the RING, RING: A DOORBELL CAM FANTASIA promotional video).
Timestamps
0:00 - Interview with Bret Berg, Creator/VJ/“Mad Scientist” of the Museum of Home Video
2:56 - Why people come back to the Museum of Home Video
5:23 - How Bret knows the Trylon
7:26 - What attracts Bret to film distribution
12:10 - Becoming a “mad scientist” to put on a good show
14:50 - Appointment viewing and “being people’s Tuesday night”
17:01 - RING, RING and why Bret’s showing this stuff at the Trylon
18:20 - Timely inspirations
21:02 - RING, RING in context of the Museum’s usual fare
24:18 - What it’s like to sift through lifetimes of torrented media
28:14 - Finding the uniting humanity in disparate content and the AI question
32:14 - Using contemporary content in the Museum
37:26 - Repertory cinema vs. download culture
40:45 - Joe Dante’s THE MOVIE ORGY (1968)
44:34 - What keeps Bret coming back to the Museum
46:43 - Bret’s favorite things that he’s put into the Museum of Home Video
50:35 - What is all this shit doing to Bret’s brain? (Also some Dune chat)
53:49 - Dumb Questions (SOUTHLAND TALES and other weird content Bret’s seen)
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