Anonymous Boy - Film and Animation

Film and Animation

In 1995, Anonymous Boy premiered his film GREEN PUBES, the first animated queercore movie, which played at film festivals around the world. Created on a limited budget, Anonymous Boy's DIY animation effect worked to the film's benefit.

After this, he and boyfriend Ron began producing a regular public access television show called The Wild Record Collection which appears on Manhattan Neighbourhood Public Access Television on Friday nights. He and Ron have been guests to promote their television program on the WFMU radio show Music To Spazz by with Dave The Spazz. The New York Press awarded the show with The Best of New York Award for Best Public Access Music Program of 1997. From September 8, 2006 through October 22, 2006 The Wild Record Collection was featured as part of a video-art exhibit called Everybody Dance Now, curated by Kathleen Goncharov for the EFA Gallery in New York City, and in 2011 it was included as part of the "Shindig!" segment of "TV Party" at The Museum of The Moving Image in a screening honoring the eccentric aspects of Public Access Television. Public Access pioneer George C. Stoney, widely regarded as "the Father of Public Access" was in attendance to vehemently criticize the featured programs as the "worst" of what Public Access had to offer.

Tony enlisted the services of his friend Sarah Jacobson to help edit his contribution, METAL OR MUSCLE? for a Presto Project DVD produced by Nike. The animated short featured robots attempting to emulate the movements of street athletes. It was scored by his friend Sam Elwitt, a musician best known for The Nutley Brass and his musical scores in the Queer Duck series. The METAL OR MUSCLE? cartoon short saw the return of the primitive Anonymous Boy animation technique first seen in GREEN PUBES but refined. The unique DIY animation technique uses cut out figures in real-time movement. The figures wiggle and glide on a transparency across backgrounds. The overall effect is humorous, low-tech, and humanistic- a contrast to both traditional cell animation and to computer generated style.