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BTS Pics - 'Judith Butler' Day One
🕑 Added 2024-04-23 16:57:23 +0000 UTCHello lovely Patrons!
I'm back refreshed from a little holiday and straight into shooting my next episode, working title Judith Butler. I'll give it a snazzier title when it's all coming together, but it's about Judith Butler's philosophy. Butler is famously difficult so I decided to dramatise some of it as a sort of Socratic dialogue and that's what we filmed today! The actual video essay segments of me explaining stuff will be shot over two days next week.
The premise of this scene is I've gone back in time to have a little chat with my past self about some things,and it doesn't go well...
My past self is played by the wonderful Rhys Tees, who you may remember played me in Identity!
Rhys did an amazing job as always - he and I have been friends for years and he's a wonderful actor!
My costume for this scene was designed by me! Brian Conway will be joining us next week to do some styling but I had a specific vision for this one so I just assembled it myself!
We called this look 'Lesbian Fuckboi' - I assembled a mood board of mainly Kristen Stewart pics and raided my own wardrobe haha
Rhys is actually a few inches shorter than me in real life so we had to find him a little stool to stand on!
Here I am trying to make him feel better hahaha
The scene we perform dramatises some of Butler's philosophy, as well as some of the ways in which people misunderstand or refuse to listen to it
Hair and makeup for this episode is by Jenny Morrell, who did an amazing job considering all I sent her for references were a bunch of Kristen Stewart pics lol
We filmed with a three camera setup, cross shooting to get authentic reactions and also for the sake of time. We had two camera operators Mr. X and Mr. Y (who prefer to remain anonymous), and for the first time ever on Philosophy Tube we brought in a dedicated sound engineer - Charlie Hurst - just to make sure nothing could go wrong. I actually want to say how super grateful I am to you patrons: without your pledges we wouldn't have been able to bring in a pro like Charlie, so thank you! Your pledges will be on the screen, and in your ears!
Awwww, happy ending!
This was a really lovely shoot, we actually finished ahead of time everything went so smoothly - and we had a full hour for lunch! I like to make sure the crew get a proper break period half way through the day, again, your pledges help make that possible. Thank you!
We'll be back at it next week filming the rest!
Abi XXx
Comments
Kat Kingsley
I have to tell you, this video made me cry. It was so beautifully written, so beautifully performed--it was so honest and raw and utterly brilliant. I cannot tell you how deeply this touched me.
Joseph
This was beautiful.
Rudy Tomala
super excited for this video! and you look so cool.
Philosophy Tube
Mm, I think the script I've put together flows nicely, I'm quite proud of it
Max DK
Butler's language is so dense, I hope you can do a better job of explaining it than I could of reading it.
Leon
Dang... I suspect Past Self will have some questions about Future Self 👀 Once again, your look is totally rad!
Philip Leitch
Looking forward to another episode. Looks great.
AR
Lesbian fuckboi has me gagged
Pascal
I appreciate the "Butler is famously difficult" as I've been struggling through "Who's Afraid of Gender" since your last video. I don't have a philosophy or even liberal arts education (technical background) but I'm trying to get better about reading sources. Oh and Happy Birthday Abi!
Hamokk
Looks great! "Lesbian fuckboi" fit looks fab. I remember the fuss some chuds started about Kristen Stewards look in the photoshoot lol. Looking forward to the episode. As always keep slaying Abbi! <3 <3
Amanda Stauffer
I've been on that stage, fab filming location. Looking forward to the episode!
Rowan Fairgrove
"Lesbian Fuckboi" LOL love it. Can't wait to watch the episode!
Jordan
Saaaame 😂 totally nailed it
Jordan
So frickin psyched for this episode!!! Philosophy Tube doing Judith Butler with dramatized conversation about self-actualization with past self??? Abi you are bringing my dreams to life!!
Laura 😺
literally thought "kristen stewart" and then scrolled down and read "kristen stewart" ksd;fjasd;kjl extremely good
Fox E.
I want to “like” this but there are 69 likes and I cannot be the one to ruin that. Morally. But these photos look great! So hopefully a comment will suffice.
cacodaemonia
I'm so excited for this! Also, the lesbian fuckboi look is a delight :D
Jennifer Osborne
As an aspiring lesbian fuckboi, I just added these photos of your outfit to my fashion mood board 😄 Love the look and so excited for this topic!
RouxTheDay
Can't wait! Most of my dialogs with my former self start with "dude, what tf were you thinking, or were you thinking at all?" O:-)
Allison
Unlike Michael Schilling, I am not a card-carrying Satanist. But my wife is! Can I ask where you got that shirt? I would really like to throw one her way.
Diana
Not a fan of the Bahomet t shirt, but everything else j'adore. If you ever need to borrow a muscle T, just ask. Got plenty.
Michael Schilling
Hurrah for Rhys being back, he was great playing The Man Who Isn't There! The Kristen Stewart energy is powerful in those shots, and as a card-carrying Satanist, I *love* your shirt!
Empty Library System
Looking forward to seeing the episode and learning more about Butler's philosophy! As a trans system, dialogue between selves is always interesting to me, love that idea! The outfit is making me feel very very gay so uhh nicely done xD
Tuur Verheyde
Sounds great, looks great. Can’t wait.
snoozingscribbles
I’m really excited for this one! I find the “past you” versus “present you” idea really interesting (especially if you add a queer lens to it all), and it’s really fun that you get to perform it this way. Your look of “lesbian fuckboi Kristen Stewart” is extremely on point and a refreshingly casual one, as well. These behind the scenes looks are so cute, too, I love hearing about the production team and the positive experiences there.
Howard
Keep on trucking. I love your work.
Crumgle
oh my god!!! i've been meaning to read butler's works for AGES this is gonna be amazingggggg
Camille Andersen 🦆
Oh man I'm excited. And that's a great look and name for it haha
J. Schuberth
Don't change the title: Judith Butler. Period. I'm so excited!!!!!!
Victoria Borges
What a great scene setup, you look amazing and I can't wait for the episode!
Jon Skoog
Ooh! This looks like a really interesting one coming up. I'm eager as always to see the final video!
Camilla Kutzner
Aaaaah, I can't wait to see the new episode! Your outfit is total 🔥, btw :)
Jenny Rodriguez
I love that Rhys is back!! And happy early birthday, so looking forward to this episode!
Rozie Fourhornes
This is such a slendid update. It’s great to see Rhys’ return to philosophy tube. I recently rewatched identity to get my oestrogen moving. He’s such a champ. I’m actually really glad you’re making this video. I’ve been fighting with Butlers writings, trying my best to make sense of her theory. It’s so hard to pick out important points when everything down to grammar and semantics are so important. Thank you, lovely Abi! Cheers, Rozie
Amyphist
Ah, what a lovely idea! Look forward to seeing it. Rhys did such a good job in that old video that when I first saw it, I thought he was you… think lots of people made that mistake.
