Dumpster Raccoon screens trashy cult classics accompanied by live performances. In a recent interview with NOW Magazine, curator Anthony Oliveira summed up the series: “Dumpster Raccoon is not just the name, it is my ethos,” says Oliveira. “It’s how I describe what I do when someone asks. I think my work as a writer or culture critic or whatever is that I compulsively forage through our culture trash to figure out what it is, how it works, why we discarded it, what it can teach us. Sharing pop culture has always been one of the main ways I express affection, and the series has grown out of that: ‘I love you; here’s some shiny garbage.’”
ABOUT THE CURATOR
Anthony Oliveira is a writer, pop culture critic, and PhD living in Toronto. He can be found on Twitter at @meakoopa, where he tweets (incessantly) about the arts, politics, and LGBT culture, or on his podcast, The Devil’s Party, as he reads through Milton’s Paradise Lost and its demonic twists and turns.
IN THE PRESS
Screening Series of the Week – Dumpster Raccoon, NOW Magazine, July 17, 2018
April
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9KlASSUq4M Dumpster Raccoon Cinema is DELIRIOUSLY PROUD to present the legal hot-potato parody that became…
May
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKXnT8FVleY From the twisted mind of queer horror genius CLIVE BARKER (in a restored DIRECTOR’S…
June
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO1sG8spdao This Pride season, DUMPSTER RACCOON CINEMA is delighted to present one of queer cinema’s…
PAST PRESENTATIONS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIe8GA3VvYg EASTER WEEKEND - JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR SINGALONG/OPEN STAGE + DAYSPRING BOOK LAUNCH March 30th…
https://www.youtube.com/embed/CF20B8p4F08 CASTLE GRAYSKULL has fallen. As the planet Eternia buckles under the dreadful tyranny of…