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Oct 2022
1h 22m

Ebony and Irony: Adam Baran

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This week Bunny welcomes Adam Baran to talk about his work as a filmmaker, spaces for sex and cruising and his thoughts on Bros.


Adam Baran is a writer, director, producer, and curator whose work focuses on hidden histories of queer life and identity. Baran’s short documentary TRADE CENTER screened at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival, AFI Docs, Frameline, Maryland, Provincetown and the Oak Cliff Film Festival, where it received a Special Jury Mention from the Best Documentary Short jury. Baran produced the 2020 Netflix documentary CIRCUS OF BOOKS which was nominated for an Emmy award for Outstanding Writing for a Non-Fiction Program. He is a co-producer on the forthcoming doc-series HOW TO HAVE SEX IN A PANDEMIC which examines the impact of COVID on LGBT New Yorkers. He wrote the first season of the hit webseries HUNTING SEASON and was a contributing editor at BUTT Magazine for many years. As producer, Baran’s projects include Emmy-winning director Jeffrey Schwarz’s feature documentaries BOULEVARD! A HOLLYWOOD STORY and the forthcoming MINESHAFT: THE CRUISING MURDERS. His next documentary as director explores the history of the leather and motorcycle club scene from 1964-1989. As a curator, Baran co-created the long-running Queer/Art/Film screening series at the IFC Center in Manhattan, and his new monthly screening series is called Narrow Rooms, which highlights dark and dirty gay films every month at the Anthology Film Archives in New York.


Adam is also the creator of the NYC INFERNO sex parties, an inclusive sex party which he calls a "sex party for sex nerds". . More can be found on Instagram @nycinfernoparty

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