Reality TV as Research: Real Housewives Watch Party with Chandra Melting Tallow

Bravo, bravo, f*cking Bravo! Calling upon the unscripted TV baddies, artists who are reality TV lovers, culture buffs with their finger on the pulse and all Denise Richards stans. Join writer/filmmaker Justin Ducharme alongside musician/visual artist Chandra Melting Tallow for Reality TV as Research… a Real Housewives Watch Party! Screening two episodes from the franchise of their choice, Justin and Chandra invite folks to come together for a watch party featuring snacks, drinks and live commentary on how the reality TV genre fuels their artistic practice as well as their general Bravo opinions.  

Presented as part of Research As… with Justin Ducharme.

Justin Ducharme is a writer, filmmaker and curator from the Métis community of St. Ambroise on Treaty 1 Territory. He was a fellow in the Sundance Film Festival’s 2022 Native Film Lab with his television pilot “Positions” adapted from his short film. He was the recipient of the Toronto International Film Festival’s Barry Avrich Fellowship and is an alumni of their 2021 TIFF Filmmaker Lab. Justin is also the co-editor of Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers Poetry published by Arsenal Pulp Press. His writing has been featured in Canadian Art, Sex Worker Wisdom, Room Magazine, Prism International and Filmmaker Mag. He currently lives and works on the Unceded Coast Salish Territory colonially known as Vancouver.

Research As… is a public program that makes creative research visible. Artists, writers, curators, designers, performers, filmmakers, are invited to engage with ECU and the wider arts community in a series of public programs that present their research practices.