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Late last night a friend posted a link on Facebook to Sean Dunne‘s American Juggalo, a 23-minute Vimeo documentary released last year about the infamous Gathering of the Juggalos festival in Cave-In-Rock, Illinois. Having already seen it once, I watched it again, of course, and then decided to plug through the rest of the Brooklyn-based filmmaker’s Vimeo-only documentaries. Unlike American Juggalo—which is tasked with examining both a polarizing subculture and annual phenomenon—most of Dunne’s films are short, practically trailer-length profiles of idiosyncratic characters. The Bowler, for instance, is about the hyper and slightly tweaked bowling hustler, Rocky Salmano, and The Archive focuses on Paul Mawhinney and his record collection, which, at the time, was the world’s largest and on sale for three million dollars.
