Solo Performance
Bob Ostertag most often performs solo. These performances may include compositions such as Sooner or Later [link to the Sooner or Later recording page], or improvisations on a wide variety of electronic instruments (gamepads, iPads, modular synthesizers, etc.) From 2015-2016,...
continue readingAn Open Letter to Young Queers in the Time of COVID-19
Several younger queers have asked those of us who live through the worst of AIDS have any lessons from that. My answer is yes, and the lesson is that THIS IS NOT AIDS. Why does that matter? HIV is difficult...
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Facebooking the Anthropocene in Raja Ampat: Technics and Civilisation in the 21st Century
New essays on garbage, smartphones, pornography, DJs, artificial intelligence, migration, dancing, and climate change. Publication in the fall of 2020 on PM Press.
continue readingTHANKS TO HANK World Premiere
THANKS TO HANK, my first feature film, will have its world premiere June 27, 2019, 4:10, and the storied Castro Theater as part of Frameline's San Francisco LGBT Film Festival. What a fitting venue. The subject of the film, Hank...
continue readingThanks to Hank Kickstarter Launch
The Kickstarter campaign for my feature documentary on the life and work of Hank Wilson has launched! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/845108579/thanks-to-hank?ref=email Please give it a look and chip in some money if you can. No amount is too small. A dollar is fine....
continue readingUnderstanding Nicaragua
I am often amazed at how quickly the present becomes a long gone past. Case in point: how even my news-savvy thirty-something friends know nothing of the Central American revolutions of the 1980s, and thus have no context for understanding...
continue readingFirst THANKS TO HANK Fundraiser
Announcing the first fundraiser for the documentary I am making about beloved gay activist HANK WILSON. Comedy by Tom Ammiano, Karen S Ripley, and Laurie Bushman. Music by Blackberri Singer and Joe Wicht. And the very first sneak preview teasers...
continue readingCharlie Haden, Pepe Guerra, El Salvador, and My Mistake
A musician in Berlin, Nicholas Bussman, is collecting revolutionary songs from throughout history, and asked if I would help him out by pointing him to songs from the Central American revolutions of the 1980s. I had not thought much about...
continue readingThanks to Hank
With some reluctance, I should say that my next big project will be a documentary movie about the life of Hank Wilson. I usually don't speak of my projects until they are done, but most of my projects have required...
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