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Pamela Kerpius

  • The Rumpus Review of How To Survive a Plague

    The response to the AIDS epidemic that ripped through the gay community starting in the early years of the Reagan administration can be best characterized by how most health and social issues are dealt with in contemporary politics today, with…

  • The Rumpus Review of Tabloid

    Joyce McKinney in her prime was a southern blonde bombshell spread across the British tabloids after a scandal emerged in which she was said to have captured and chained a lost male lover. 

  • To Absorb the Appendages of Time

    Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams opens in theaters today.   You walk out of Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams overcome by the power of time. Personally, I find it almost impossible to conceptualize life in terms of time…

  • The Rumpus Interview with Lena Dunham

    Lena Dunham is a 22-year-old filmmaker born and raised in Manhattan under the wing of parents who are both artists and who support her endeavors like they are their own (Dunhan his currently co-writing a screenplay with her mother).

  • The IT Auteur: The Rumpus Interview with Josh Weinberg

    Josh Weinberg is a Denver-based tech support geek turned independent filmmaker who released his first web-based comedy video The Website Is Down: Sales Guy VS. Web Dude last spring to coast-to-coast reverberations of laughter.