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[Ron Douglas] is also pursuing long-term documentary projects about train-hopping (something he's done himself) and punk houses, where he long lived and collected footage. Yet humor - as exampled by "Spoon Guy" and the gorily comic "A Brush With Gum Disease" and its sequel - seems to be his default setting.
"When I go to make movies, I can't seem to make anything dramatic or scary, but I can do ridiculous," says Douglas, a stay-at-home dad who lives in Bloomfield with his girlfriend and their 10-month-old daughter, Anath. "Anytime I do have fun, it comes out with me screaming and bleeding all over the place."For her part, McCoy likes "Metal Mom" all right, though she's puzzled how [Claire Houghtalen] could follow her for a year-and-a-half and end up with a 12-minute movie. Houghtalen says the documentary - her State University of New York thesis project - captures how the mother-daughter dynamic changes as Lydia grows up. The girl's love for watching football on TV, for instance, is a habit her mother finds mortifying. "She's definitely starting to assert her own likes and dislikes in the documentary," says Houghtalen.See the full content of this document
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Humor Him
HIS NOM DE CINÉMA IS ANGRY RON. At 32, he's a serious-minded person, with roots in political-punk culture and anarchist thought.
But Ron Douglas' short videos more nearly suggest Groucho tha...See the full content of this document
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