Operation Teak

My citations remain, though the names in them die

On the 10th anniversary of his band Rall Tide’s debut album, artist Peter Kotas takes you on a flowering multimedia tour of Detroit musicians trying to survive in a world where you can’t even enjoy a baseball game without supporting The Bay of Pigs. Along the way he shows you how the band’s abrupt break-up led to his career as a political journalist peeking behind the curtains of Kansas to find diplomatic wizard Mike Pompeo, Trump’s CIA Director and Secretary of State, wears no clothes. Iowa Writer’s Workshop hero Kurt Vonnegut (or some entity that knows all about his life) hosts this documentary as the ideal human from his 1985 novel Galapagos: a penguin with flippers unable to pull triggers or press buttons to bomb and kill people.

Runtime

29m

Genres

Documentary, Animation, History, Comedy, Science Fiction

Director

kid.infinity

Casting

• Peter Kotas — kid.infinity(voice)
• Sydney Redigan — Vig 6(voice)
• Lionel Montagne — Grandpa(voice)
• Bryni Makiko — Kurt Vonnegut(voice)
• kid.infinity — The Brillo Brigade(voice)
• Peter Kotas — Truancy T.A.(voice)
• Sydney Redigan — Mrs. Pompeo(voice)
• Bryni Makiko — Spidernam(voice)
• kid.infinity — Snowmam(voice)
• Peter Kotas — Brutus Fuckeye(voice)

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