ICONOCLAST SYNDICATE

ICONOCLAST SYNDICATE

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Ever since I was a little girl, I knew I was a Showbiz Baby. And now, more than ever, the IT Girls and I deep dive into the Boys’ Club’s turbulent waters. Iconoclast Syndicate loves to get down and dirty as we swim through the rolling sea waves and gut out the school of fish. We’re a coven of brazen hussies and Final Girls ready to conquer our competition, one film reel at a time!

Our boots hit the streets of LA, working behind the city’s metropolitan grime inside the Walk of Fame. Our Tinseltown film production team rolls up its sleeves and spreads out our veiny maps, not red carpets. We’ve created a wild rat race across the country, seeking out unconventional minds in this stark society. Our brand offers danger and counterculture with humor and mischievous puckish playfulness. We flirt with danger as cinema’s notoriously uncensored agent provocateurs, ready to burn a hole through multiplexes around the world.

The Iconoclast Pit, our syndicate’s chamber of commerce and boiler room, is a row of factories bustling with Warholian tastemakers—our team of boys, girls, and lovely non-binaries. 

Iconoclast Syndicate’s upcoming film slate creates, curates, and packages movies that speak to our collective consciousness. Our Film Factory builds an assembly line of nonconforming dreamers and Fear and Loathing thrill-seekers, hell-bent on searching for and destroying the roads paved by the old guard in pursuit of the Gatsbian green light. We do it with gusto as our resident Factory Girl blends her rhythmic culture inside the lens of female fixation.

The Film Factory’s loud and boldly brash personalities swim with the sharks, cruisin’ for a bruisin'. We plan our star projects with one bold motto: Iconoclast Syndicate offends the clinically offended. We do it with joy! We break down worlds and crush pompous egos, thinking they can control the flow of the system with their wild, tyrannical push to kill cinema. We’re the antidote against those naked emperors wearing empty suits who think they can steamroll their way into Venice and Cannes, strutting like Marlboro Men in the Wild, Wild West.

The Film Syndicate mocks the Beta production companies' weak efforts to impose conformity in cinema. But that’s not what filmmaking is about. We take down the weasels for less. Our assembly line of enfant terribles and gonzo girls pushes the envelope as Mottormouth Head Bitches in Charge.

Iconoclast Syndicate creates movies for film-psycho darlings inside our pirate radio hub. We don’t announce ourselves. We invade Hollywood, one frame at a time, because the only way we’re straight is as straight-up bitches in power. It’s the Iconoclast Method. Get used to it.

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THE DUCHESS OF CINEMA

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It girls make hit movies.

MISSION

STATEMENT

To boldly explore and celebrate the mediums of film, music, and visual arts through an unfiltered lens. To rebel and radicalize, how the artist weaves their story.

vISION

STATEMENT

To humanize film and recenter the audience as the protagonist of the story, as we experience movies together.

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CORNERSTONE

TO CINEMA’S

NUTRITIONAL

bREAKFAST

GRANDSLAM!

NEW MODERN MEDIA FOR FINAL GIRLS: ICONOCLAST SYNDICATE is a dynamic, sassy, brazenly brass, caustic socialite, and motormouth Valley Girl with a Santana Lopez twist. A dominant Alpha Female and Gonzo Girl, she’s a Mean Girl with a Heart of Gold. The radical wild child of a once hip bygone Generation X is now a millennial with a pulse on the Y.

We wildly pride ourselves as irreverent film junkies with ICONOCLAST SYNDICATE, beastly to the core. We’re just keeping 100, 9 times out of 10, slipping up once or twice on our cheat day because, like Medusa, we too turn the cheek at the sight of gangly ugliness. So, we crack a few seeds with our birds’ beaks, but some people need to get their feelings hurt. Some people like to watch the world burn, but  ICONOCLAST SYNDICATE thinks of itself as that Head Bitch in Charge. Like our fellow Plastics before us, we too are at the forefront of drama. We don’t speak it into existence but make it happen in real-time.

Film is the expression of a collection of thoughts, personalities, and identities solidified in the inscription of motion pictures and timeless literature. What ICONOCLAST SYNDICATE brings to the table is explosive diarrhea that is political corruption, greed, the mysterious terrors of the American Dream, and the real snickering snark that is the media barrage of wasteland pop culture through the lens of a cinema connoisseur.

PICTURE THIS: If ICONOCLAST SYNDICATE could pitch our battery acid slate like any other ambitious movie we want to make, then our pitch would sound a little bit like this: 

MTV’s cutting-edge New Wave ideas & aesthetics with old-school Rolling Stone’s provocatively gonzo groupie’s bird’s eye view of cinema and music in an authentic fashion! Mixed with the wit and knowledge of the past, entrenched inside the walls of Turner Classic Movies, you get us —because unlike any other boutique film space that beats around the soapbox with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, we make film factory art nouveau. Our smut-junk film production company isn’t just for talking heads blowing some good head, a double-knob, and a wanky tease.

ICONOCLAST SYNDICATE is a diamond in the rough, and with $5 a month, you, too, can contribute to this wacky adult Nickelodeon. 

We’re kidding about the $5- for now.

FILM FACTORY

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DUCHESS OF CINEMA

ICONOCLAST SYNDICATE Builds Inside the Celluloid. Broadcast at Full Volume. We Are A Film Factory for Nonconforming Minds. Hollywood Is the Medium. We’re the Message. We Are Where Counterculture Goes to Work. Cinema Without Permission. We Are Not A Studio. We Are A Syndicate.

ICONOCLAST SYNDICATE is a wild, pop-culture-heavy boutique film production company that acts more like your twisted version of the Mean Girls’ Burn Book than most pumpkin-spice latte girls in the scene. We are renegade magicians creatively reviving a film counterculture that deconstructs the illusion of the American Dream as seen through the eyes of practical jokers and midsummer pucks! Our film guide’s Final Girl’s Composition Notebook reads like the love child of Courtney Love and Abbie Hoffman, with a twist of Lenny Bruce and quirky pearls of wisdom from the resident rich girl, Cher Horowitz.

We are the new pioneers of commercialism, blending pop culture with the divisive media that tell stories through inventive vocabulary, enough to publish our film glossary, unique to the Factory Girls before us. Our Final Girls, the platform VJs, are modern-day empowering Factory Girls who serve as both muses and innovators, sharing their own stories. The GIFs symbolize a new visual world. Our pieces are digital silent art films inspired by Eadweard Muybridge’s iconic The Horse in Motion.

COMPOSITION

NOTEBOOK

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ICONOCLAST SYNDICATE’s Factory Girls are independent thinkers. We see ourselves as the new wave of cinema, reviving post-punk cult movie classics and showcasing innovative art from around the world. Fresh, clever, and youthful, ICONOCLAST SYNDICATE delivers a sharp punch to the stale, conservative pseudo-intellectuals, offering a bold, in-your-face, and provocative perspective on films. Unlike any other boutique film company, ICONOCLAST SYNDICATE doesn’t just showcase the next big thing. We, the Mighty Film Factory, are the next big thing.

Inspired by Andy Warhol’s Factory, ICONOCLAST SYNDICATE is a tech-savvy American multimedia film and visual arts company. The boutique brand curates serialized editorials, visual essays, interviews, profiles, and short & feature films that celebrate the stories we love to tell, inspired by the artists we enjoy watching. 

The 2020s are the Decade of the Iconoclasts, a time when the Final Girls will redefine cinema as a bold declaration of female focus. Their daring, outspoken style will connect with audiences as we blend pop culture and the critique of celebrity arrogance with the over-the-top energy of Club Kids navigating New York nightlife, with a thin line of white powder on the glass menagerie. The reinvented ICONOCLAST SYNDICATE shares their views on film and the world with a passionate enthusiasm like never before.

FACTORY GIRLS’

CODE OF HONOR

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ICONOCLAST SYNDICATE is a return to form—a fierce Head Bitch in Charge flowing through THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS’ campy realm. Agile and fluid, on the brink of something fresh and new,  ICONOCLAST SYNDICATE acts as the rebellious, gonzo sweetener to the sharp, jagged edge of a cool, crisp, refreshing Johnnie Walker. ICONOCLAST SYNDICATE is a timeless figure cloaked in pastel, a vintage dancing queen with a vampire-slaying twist at the heel.

We are vulgarly crude in our delivery but mean well in our presentation. Raw, honest, and notoriously uncensored, we are the Unholy Trinity of film connoisseurs, the Plastics and Cheerios of a visual arts’ Sunnydale.

ICONOCLAST SYNDICATE focuses on expanding and curating film exhibition. The “Film Factory,” inspired by Andy Warhol, is a curated collection of club classics. ICONOCLAST SYNDICATE deconstructs the disillusionment of the American Dream, filtered through cinema’s universal language.

NO-SELLOUT

CINEMA SLAYERS

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Hollywood tends to put us, girls, inside toyboxes and dollhouses. Still, the ICONOCLAST SYNDICATE house is a ballroom-cultured camp where new ideas are encouraged to think outside the monochrome drab. We envision our home in bursts of Technicolor delights that spiral out of control. Life isn’t black and white, nor are the arts. So, why call us “Baby” and push us into a corner?

Our modern-day Factory Girl is a Final Girl because when you don’t care what others think and press the “fucking go” button, who stops you? Movies and music are the absolutes of self-expression, and our film factory digs deeper like a chatterbox Valley Girl looking for a good time! 

Each piece we create is carefully crafted, designed, and curated through the perspective of the ultimate Final Girl’s film guide — a modern person escaping the jelly-like core of the persona inside our sick, sad, mad world who experiences movies and music through the female gaze.

Click the little button thingy to see which Factory Girl you are!

BEWARE OF THE

FACTORY GIRLS

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