Actor Slash Model --

    Multimedia collective - Film, Music, Performance

 

 

Actor Slash Model describes the collaborative work of Simon Strikeback, an activist and educator, and Madsen Minax, an artist and filmmaker.

Through both music and film Actor Slash Model addresses issues of gender identity, gender performance and politics, a sex positive ideal, and the art making process. As a filmmaking duo, Actor Slash Model is currently producing a documentary chronicling gender identity and performance as it surrounds musicianship. The research for this project includes conducting in depth interviews, documenting the performances, rehearsals, and everyday interactions of trans and gender variant musicians across the United States and Canada. Through this project they seek to reveal a particularly active and vibrant realm of community and artistic excellence. To learn more about Actor Slash Model’s documentary film (working titles“Off The Beat”/The Actor Slash Model Documentary Project) please visit the film section of this website.

As a band, Actor Slash Model creates fun, quirky, entertaining music exploring gender and sex positivity as well as the most basic inspirations to all people: love, heartbreak, joy, pain, etc., set up in what they like to call an “Indie-Grass” musical style, often incorporating costumes and vaudvillian performative styles. To learn more about Actor Slash Model’s music please visit the music pages of this website. The duet recently toured the East Coast included Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadephia, New York, Boston, and Portland, ME. Read the tour blog and learn about the East coast musicians interviewed for the documentary project.

Actor Slash Model also currently co-organizes a bi-monthly queer film and video series in Chicago called Threat Level Queer Shorts. Please visit the Threat Level webpage for more info, and come to the November screening!

Threat Level Queer Shorts is a bi-monthly film and video screening series organized and curated by Sam Feder, Madsen Minax, Jules Rosskam and Simon Strikeback to screen works made by or featuring queer-faggot-dyke-homo-tranny-inbetween-the-liners-freaks! This event is put on to support the filmmaking duos of Feder/Rosskam and Minax/Strikeback as they raise funds and awareness for their current documentary film projects, respectively exploring trans feminism and gender identity in music performance.

The Actor Slash Model film project is made possible by generous supporters such as yourself. Please continue to help bring images and sounds of positive, talented, sexy, articulate trans and genderqueer people to the big screen by donating some cash and get a movie credit!