Manufacturing Dissent Since 1996
New interviews throughout the week

On filmmaking, politics and the inevitable whiteness of zombies.

Apr 25 2015
Picture grade school aged multiracial Draculas, Frankensteins, mummies and werewolves, seated at school desks, drawing pictures with crayons. We see the pictures they’ve drawn. All the zombies are Caucasian, and voracious looking.

Jeff Dorchen is sequestered in his filmmaking hole, and all he can do is imagine a world where Rick Santorum eases into a serape, Hillary Clinton helps black men move out of Harlem, and zombies reclaim their Afro-Caribbean roots from the cold, be-flanneled hands of white appropriators.

 

Guest

Jeff Dorchen

Jeff is a visual artist, songwriter/musician, actor, essayist, fiction writer, poet, playwright and screenwriter. He's been a playwright, songwriter, and performer with Chicago's Theater Oobleck since 1988, a writer and actor with Red Baron Films since 2000, and a contributor to This Is Hell! since 1996. He currently lives in Los Angeles. He writes the Substack, Right Twice A Day. 

Right Twice A Day

 

Related Interviews
Jeff Dorchen
Mar 1 2023

Condemnation Nation

Jeff Dorchen
Dec 14 2022

Good Grief and Bad Grief, Charlie Brown!

Kari Lydersen
Sep 28 2022

Reparations In Evanston / Kari Lydersen

Raul Perez
Jul 26 2022

Souls of White Jokes / Raul Perez

More with Jeff Dorchen
Jeff Dorchen
Sep 13 2023

Memories of Morocco

Jeff Dorchen
Sep 6 2023

Dogwhistling Through the Sky

Jeff Dorchen
Aug 30 2023

The Miserable Felk

Jeff Dorchen
Aug 23 2023

Meet the Perseids

Jeff Dorchen
Jul 26 2023

Dare to Be Aggressively Humble