James Runde

Played Out

James Runde

Tim West, James Runde

James is the lead singer in a local rock band who is allergic to responsibility. Leslie is the bass player in the band, a middle-aged single mom struggling to connect with her teenage son. And Tim West is Booda, a rapper trying to maintain his dreams of a music career while living up to his responsibilities as a husband and father to two young boys. These characters will wake up tomorrow and struggle again, but they each find a little hard-won peace at the end of the day.

Catholic Boy

James Runde

Chockablock with found images - including subjects such as JFK, John Paul II and the CIA - this rollicking Bruce Conner-esque collage film interrogates the history of Catholicism in America and the meaning of “good citizenship.

White and Lazy

James Runde

James Runde, Quinn Else

Set in 1991, White and Lazy follows Steve as he tries to collect the month's rent from his eccentric roommates. Prone to singing in front of the mirror, smoking grass, hunting down breakfast burritos, and ranting about Ronald Reagan, Steve is decidedly not up to the task. While mostly about laughing at oneself, White and Lazy also touches on the gap between underground culture and straight society, channelling the Do It Yourself mentality of the then-soon-to-explode punk scene.