Wayne Koestenbaum

“Over the last five years, Wayne’s made more than 200 short films, but STIGMA PUDDING is the first which combines original painting with digital video. Now that he’s at last put felt-tip to film-stock, he’s created something more opulent and vivid, remarkable for ‘the increasing vibrance of the color’ and ‘the peculiarity and individuation of the marks.’” –Nick Gamso

A diminished gallery girl finds a way to silence her toxic boss.

As the Olympian gods struggle to make sense of the end of their empire, a rebellion is rising from the valley below. With a script written in dactylic hexameter and performed by poets, the film examines how the forces of power often fail to recognize the frailty of their rule, while the oppressed and the organized find their capacity to strike need not wait for the confluence of an imagined perfect storm.