about this project:
Popular Cult is our self-financed (no-budget) documentary looking into the experiences and insights of those who love, collect and create pop music, icons and art. People may argue over the validity of pop culture as a 'true art form', some dismiss it as a disposable medium, while others embrace it dearly.

Is Pop Culture important?

We feel it is. It's where we find our villans, heros, crushes, and inspiration. Popular culture provides us with common grounds to communicate our personal beliefs and ideals.

You may love it or hate it, relish in it, avoid it at all cost, or just stare vacantly into it - pop culture is a mirror of our lives, and an artifact of our society for the future. Youth culture finds it's fashion, morality, and desires from these mediums.

The topic being far too vast to cover in a single film, so we have narrowed our focused on the people who have been important to us, and who share the passion of the divine absurdity of it all, and most importantly, those and proved to us that WE CAN INFLUENCE IT – even if it's at a grass roots level, it makes an impact ... or at least allow us a confectionary escape.

credits:
produced by Jonathan Krop & Paul Bertolino
directed by Jonathan Krop & Paul Bertolino
edited by Jonathan Krop
filmed by Jonathan Krop & Paul Bertolino, Diane Rinella, with additional footage from Dave Markey
"Popular Cult" music & lyrics written and performed by Redd Kross

Shot on VHS, edited using After Effects and Final Cut on a G4 Mac
© 1997-2006 Jonathan Krop / Paul Bertolino

client:
self produced personal project / currently unfinished.