The
Tomorrow
Show

2015
HD Video
15 min

The Tomorrow Show is an experimental documentary short, which is a part of a long-term project drawing on archival material from the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives in Los Angeles examines the performative potential of archival documents, focusing on confessions. It takes actor Michael Kearns’ own story as its starting point. Shot in his own bedroom, the film focuses on Kearns’ life as the The Happy Hustler in the mid-70s, a fictional role he took on and acted out both on and off screen. It recounts Kearns’ memory of a trick he turned before going on the talk show, The Tomorrow Show - a return to a role that unsettles narratives of identity and history.

Exhibited in its totality, ONE MAN SHOW includes The Stonewall Nation and The Tomorrow Show, as well as print and video material from the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries and the UCLA Film & Television Archive, such as collages by the artist Olaf Odegaard (1938-1997) and a VHS video interview from 1986 with the activist Don Jackson conducted by Odegaard.

Director & Producer
Sille Storihle

Cast
Michael Kearns

Camera
Sille Storihle

Sound recordist
Evan Pritts

Editor
Katrin Ebersohn

Thank You
Anne Kathrine Bindesbøll, Polly Carter, Mathias Danbolt, David E. Frantz, John W. McLaughlin, Nobert Shieh, ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives

Financial Support
OCA, Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond