MIX NYC, New York’s Queer Experiment Film Festival had a great idea with its Naked Eye Celebrity Camera Auction. And now it’s back!
The idea is that celebs donate disposable cameras which ‘are being auctioned “naked,” i.e. with undeveloped negatives included, giving you a unique opportunity to own original, one-of-a-kind photographic artworks, unseen selfies, and real-life photos. Bid and be the first to see—images created just for you by your favorite celebrities.’
While you might expect an experimental queer film festival to only have rather obscure supporters, MIX NYC has pulled together a great mix of ‘actors, musicians, writers, models, photographers, performance artists, directors, porn stars, drag queens, and more’.
Cameras have been given by movie and TV favourites such as James Franco, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Joan Allen, Parker Posey, Modern Family’s Julie Bowen and Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Broadway legend Betty Buckley, Michael Cera, Brady Corbet, and Amy Sedaris. There’s plenty of queer interest with filmmakers like Ira Sachs, Travis Mathews, Gregg Araki and Sebastian Silva, Looking’s O-T Fagbele and Frankie J. Alvarez, singer Jake Shears, and Scandal’s Guillermo Diaz and Dan Bucatinsky.
And if you’re hoping you might get something a bit naughtier on your camera (although you won’t know what pictures were taken until they’re developed), porn folks such as Jake Jaxson, Max Ryder and Colby Keller are also involved. The last of those isn’t too surprising, as anyone who knows anything about him outside porn will be aware Keller’s a little bit of a hipster experimental art lover.
There are some hints as to what will be included on some of the cameras though, as it’s known actress Lea DeLaria’s camera contains behind-the-scenes pics from the new season of Orange is the New Black, while Jesse Tyler Ferguson took his shots on the set of Modern Family.
The signed cameras are available for bidding on eBay now through May 22nd, and you can find out more on the MIX NYC website.
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