Film Experimentalist | Noise Hero | Actor | Poet
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Manifesto written for ‘’Sis Is This The End Of The World?’’
To Whom It May Concern,
As I write this my friends are prancing around my room, trying on looks and taking pictures, laughing and asking, which photo is iconic enough to give to the media when I die? For us, the gender deviants and melanated, we know we only have one true chance in the spotlight. We have been conditioned to know that our lives will come to an un- timely and violent end.
I think of Cinema as a map, a guide through vast land- scapes beyond the device in my hand. When cinema gets it right, we find ourselves within it. It is moving. We are always in the middle of going somewhere, bringing memories, moments, and portals that at once capture and move us in the same breath. I can not think of a film where I have seen myself. My friends and I have no map. I look up glance at the photo my friend took on her phone. Her lips are pouty and her eyes are wide, wearing a pink satin nightgown. I say Yeah bitch, that's the one. That's the one to be all over the news and social media, hopefully, if someone cares. I always will.
I make films to delve deeper into our fears and desires, remembering we are soft, beautiful and young as night. To bear witness to our wonder, our truths. To go forward but not by myself. We are not fated to wither in the margins we are pushed into. We will see the earth before the world ends. We are thriving, joyously, loud in both our triumph and our lamentation. We celebrate through this urgent form of cinema, without resting in voyeuristic tropes. We turn away from what is seen to- wards what is felt. I call for a radical queer cinema that trusts no wave before it or after. A cinema that in its nowness, rejects the recuperation of black culture, rejects the homoge- nizing force of all institu- tions. Gentle, jarring, intimate, and brutal. To have nothing is a miracle and it is monstrous. We claim nothing for our own, and nothing can claim us. Exposure of the absurd is our tactic.
We are surreal because we crave to see beyond our reality.
We are, like Stephan Winter ASSert- ed, “Black faggots with a political agenda.”
In my work I will challenge our compulsions and immerse us in a whirlwind beyond analy- SIS. It’s like, my tongue is in my friend's mouth and your tongue is in my mouth. It is urgent, it resists individualization. We’re making this together, we are talking it out, this need for rupture, our unfaltering desire to escape.
Xoxo
Alli Logout
Inquire about being a private donor for the project here ︎
To Whom It May Concern,
As I write this my friends are prancing around my room, trying on looks and taking pictures, laughing and asking, which photo is iconic enough to give to the media when I die? For us, the gender deviants and melanated, we know we only have one true chance in the spotlight. We have been conditioned to know that our lives will come to an un- timely and violent end.
I think of Cinema as a map, a guide through vast land- scapes beyond the device in my hand. When cinema gets it right, we find ourselves within it. It is moving. We are always in the middle of going somewhere, bringing memories, moments, and portals that at once capture and move us in the same breath. I can not think of a film where I have seen myself. My friends and I have no map. I look up glance at the photo my friend took on her phone. Her lips are pouty and her eyes are wide, wearing a pink satin nightgown. I say Yeah bitch, that's the one. That's the one to be all over the news and social media, hopefully, if someone cares. I always will.
I make films to delve deeper into our fears and desires, remembering we are soft, beautiful and young as night. To bear witness to our wonder, our truths. To go forward but not by myself. We are not fated to wither in the margins we are pushed into. We will see the earth before the world ends. We are thriving, joyously, loud in both our triumph and our lamentation. We celebrate through this urgent form of cinema, without resting in voyeuristic tropes. We turn away from what is seen to- wards what is felt. I call for a radical queer cinema that trusts no wave before it or after. A cinema that in its nowness, rejects the recuperation of black culture, rejects the homoge- nizing force of all institu- tions. Gentle, jarring, intimate, and brutal. To have nothing is a miracle and it is monstrous. We claim nothing for our own, and nothing can claim us. Exposure of the absurd is our tactic.
We are surreal because we crave to see beyond our reality.
We are, like Stephan Winter ASSert- ed, “Black faggots with a political agenda.”
In my work I will challenge our compulsions and immerse us in a whirlwind beyond analy- SIS. It’s like, my tongue is in my friend's mouth and your tongue is in my mouth. It is urgent, it resists individualization. We’re making this together, we are talking it out, this need for rupture, our unfaltering desire to escape.
Xoxo
Alli Logout
Inquire about being a private donor for the project here ︎
STUDIO LALALA
Studio LaLaLa is a Black and Trans mixed media production company consisting of artists Alli Logout and Juicebox burton. We utilize a DIY philosophy to collectively produce the visions and voices of our community and pride ourselves on being able to create quality content for those around us on any budget. Our work expands all over from narrative to commercial to music video and party promo.
Both proficient in pre and post production, we are here to guide you from the birth of an idea all the way to its final product. We also offer live streaming services that can seamlessly stream your special event: graduations, conferences, meetings, press conferences, training sessions, galas and more.
Contact Studio Lalala here ︎
EXPERIMENTALS
Midnight Legend
Writer | Director | CoEditor
Symbolizing the different stages of grief we follow our 3 legends and the overworked staff in a shady club.
Street Pulse Beat
Director| Editor with Juice Box Burton
Please read this letter on the intention behind this film.
Fuckin Around [Experiment #666]
Director in collaboration with Chris Berstien | Editor
5 min | 8mm
Shot in the middle of the souths largest gay gathering ‘Southern Decedence’ We explore the cruising practices of Trans and NonBinary people as they prowl around the streets of new orleans getting in a whole lot of messy situations.
Lucid Noon Sunset Blush [Expermenet #2010]
Writer | Director | CoEditor
WATCH HERE
32 min | 4k
32 min | 4k
Sex, money, theft WHATEVER! Catch a glimpse into the lives of some of the baddest chicks in the south! Outed by Netflix and kicked out by her parents, 17-year bb gay Micah flees her South Texas home to the nearest city where she is taken in by a squad of all black hard femmes who steal bikes and domme white boys out of their secret underground lair. The audience gets a unapologetic glimpse into everyone's daily lives—from house booty, dyke drama, early clients, bike heists, nail fetishes and mango flavored pussies. It explores a radical Afro-futuristic fantasy where black queer femmes are centered and portrayed in a way that feels honest and exists without fetishization and objectification".
Touch Me Im Sick!
Multi Channel Video Installation | Sculpture
“Touch me, I’m sick" peers out the window of isolation and into its inevitable ends. The relics of poverty gleam, dully reminding us of the barriers of comfort and implores will the virus ever truly end.
Digital Affirmation
Writer | Director| Editor
The Mayans got me fucked up! Its 2012.. You're 17 and the world didnt end. Suddenly in the middle of your double shift in your podunk town a glimmer of hope chaotically comes into your orbit.
Dyke Experiment #69
Editor | Director in collaboration with Chealsea Del Castillo
5 min | VHS
This experiment takes place at an international punk festival ‘Not Dead Yet' in Toronto canada. In this highly straight and masculine punk environment we pay homage to filmmakers like GB Jones and Bruce La Bruce creating a sexy dyke punk tale of leather and lovers directly in the midst of this punk fest.
FRAGILE SELF [DOUBLE UNCONSCIOUS]
Writer | Director
WATCH CLIP HERE
5 min | 16mm
5 min | 16mm
Exploring the identity of blackness shaped by the black bodies shown on celluloid. A rapid mixture of negatives and positives the entire film was constructed to burn while playing.
Precious Flesh is a collection of work that transforms over time and translates within each other. This group created Video and Sound sculptures that were placed along the walls of Nexus. In the start of process The Green Lacewing insect inspired the group. The Sound sculptures {hives} were inspired by the insect’s mating calls. Visually the sculptures show the wavelength of each call they are producing. Speakers placed throughout these hives are producing recreated interpretations of the mating call. These calls being produced are then communicating with the Video sculptures that fade in and out as a response to the call of the hives. The clustering of the Lacewings eggs influences the Video sculptures positions. The videos were derived from the thought of how we can’t unsee what we are fed in mass media. It controls our every desire and we are complacent in our own demise. The outside performance dealt with the idea of metamorphosis and transformation that an individual goes through with direct inspiration of the lacewings cocoon.
ANtenna Works Presents: Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa
Director | Editor
3 min | HD
In collaboration with poet Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa this 3 minute documentary explores their work as visually profound as their words.
We’re Still Working!
Multi Channel Audio Video Installation | Sculpture
Piercing harsh audio of construction envelopes the room disturbing anyone at rest. Here Logout tackles the mental health side of the repercussions of gentrification by depicting the uneasiness of rest and how even in our dreams we cant escape our realities
Where's The Pill Emoji?
Editor | Animator
Exploring our darkest web desires in this visual overload of controlled yet untamed chaos. Made for juliana Huxtables Shock Value.
Nietzsche/Puberty (if we only had guns) [Cinematic Exprentment #1]
Director | Editor
2 min | Handycam
Torn family photos pinned back together on a child’s wall intercut with dumb punks fighting and running chaoticly all over town this film explores the memories that made us who we are all set to the haunting explicit audio of a 5 year old neighbor describing the night her fatherwent to jail. This marks the beginning of the situational experiments I have grown so fond of.
MEAL TICKET
Audio Visual Performance
In collaboration with synth and robotics engineer Darcy Neal. All instruments except for cello were homemade by us both. CRT TVs were circuit bent by us as well.
MUSIC VIDEOS
Twisted Thing “Sacred Cement”
Director
Come with us on a Hallucinogenic slumber party with some of punk rock’s finest and I do mean Fineee *wink *wink
Younger Lovers “What Are You Wanting For?”
Writer | Director | CoEditor
Based on the film ‘The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love’ This video takes you on the journey of lovers from inception to its inevitable ends. We're still friends though!...
Moor Mother Goddess “Masters Clock”
Director | Editor | Director of Photography | Synth Processor
1:20 min | HD
Special Interest “(Herman’s) House”
Writer | Director | CoEditor
Special Interest “Black Silk Stocking”
Director | Editor
2:30 min | VHS | HD
Commissioned by Boiler room 4:3 This film meditates on the work client dynamic in the service industry. We follow 2 beauties obsessed with filming their daily lives at work and at play.
Special Interest “Disco II”
Writer | Director
“You don’t know me, don't owe you shit” First Special Interest music video ever made! Just grabbed the friends and some donuts and let fate do the rest. Partially shot in the abandoned historic punk warehouse Nome Miasto.
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Special Interest
https://specialinterest.band/music
You know her but here’s the speel…
“Special Interest is a four piece punk band emerging from New Orleans, Louisiana. Combining elements of No-Wave, Glam, and Industrial Special Interest create a frenetic and urgent revisioning of punk and electronic music for a modern world gone mad. Propulsive drum machines, a swirling layer of detuned samples, and a driving bass line create the foundation across which angular guitar work and dissonant synth lines glide. Front and center are Alli Logout’s commanding vocals and razor sharp lyrics moving from high camp satire to insightful political imperatives often within the course of one song.
Special Interest initially formed in 2015 to play one show in a basement. Originally a two-piece with Alli Logout and Maria Elena playing guitars and power tools over the beat of a 70’s Univox drum machine. Soon after they ditched the power tools and were joined by Ruth Mascelli on electronics and Nathan Cassiani on bass. Special Interest quickly gained a reputation for their intense and energetic live shows. A dense wall of sound oscillating from aggressive and noisy to joyous and danceable punctuated by the no holds barred on stage persona of their vocalist. Special Interest have embarked on several short tours of the southeast and have traveled to play festivals such as Suoni Per Popolo, Slut Island, and Not Dead Yet.
Their debut album Spiraling w as recorded in New Orleans in 2017 by organist, inventor, and fixture of the local underground music scene Quintron. The first new release on Brice Nice’s Raw Sugar label since 2011, Spiraling is perhaps the sum of its members influences. Which is, to say, everything. They are currently working on a follow up LP to be released in the US on Thrilling Living and in the UK/Europe on Night School Records.”
AUTOROMANTIX
In 2016 I started toying with the idea of a solo project in commemoration of friends who passed in the ghostship fires. There was a small grant given to friends and family affected and I used it to buy a synth. Since then I have had sporadic shows once or twice a year but plan to have my first ever release at the end of 2023.
SKANTCH
SKANTCH is a sonic overload consisting of multidisciplinary artists Alli Logout and Juicebox Burton. Using movement sound and looping mechanisms SKANTCH sends the audience into the portal of a manic black bitch. From violent hymns of intrusive thoughts, suicide, lack of love and the inevitable race-war SKANTCH sends the message rage rage rage, but heal.... this performance is for everyone who has ever been labeled TOO MUCH.