Jeremiah McDonald is a time traveling filmmaker and actor who has self-produced short, viral films for KZread since 2006. A Conversation With My 12-Year-Old-Self (2012) received global attention, sending McDonald on a press tour involving CNN, the Today Show, NBC Nightly News and Inside Edition. Other media includes Entertainment Weekly, the LA Times and Huffington Post. Previous viral hits include Jazz Dispute, and KZread is My Life. Between 2009 and 2012, he worked as an associated member of Comédie de Caen in France, under the artistic direction of Jean Lambert-Wild, creating calentures for stage and screen and performing in the acclaimed Festival D'Avignon. Jeremiah studied film at Rockport College in Maine, as well as acting and pantomime with legendary mime artist Tony Montanaro at his Celebration Barn school.
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I saw a British news show, the hosts kicked the guest off because he was pro- Gaza or anti-genocide, whatever , but he wouldn’t leave. It was eye-opening
I miss when KZread was about the humanness and everyone expressing their own content. When the algorithm came into the mix everything about the content changed to pleasing it; lots of content lost its soul.
One of the greatest videos ive ever watched
As a Londoner, this is the cutest, most wholesome video ever.
The Roy part aways makes me emotional.
Hear hear! Give me an artist doing what they love any day of the week
I think a lot of artists and creative people get called pretentious, unfortunately. Especially if they have a lot of knowledge on whatever their particular niches are. . . Anyway, I enjoy your content!
Oh the good ole days of KZread.
This is genius but imagine after he tells his 12 year old self to not let the dog chew the toy his 32 year old self looks at the toy and it's perfectly preserved and he really was talking to his younger self
Truly objective & subjective simultaneous punditry. Great deescalation allowing for positive message. Thinking statues for the win!
After thinking about this over the day, I think what I like about KZread for all its failures is the entirely inhomogeneous content. I got addicted to shorts some days ago, but once the algorithm has learned what I want to see, it has become surprisingly boring, because it is exactly what I expect. Same happens on Spotify - it makes great choice for music which pleases me, but hardly manages to find a song I would bother to keep in mind. Which is why I like a lot when channels just do something unpredictable from time to time. Not always. But sometimes just something pretentious can be very welcome, just like unexpected silliness does the same. So I enjoy how it is outside of my control on this channel.
Pretentious? Moi?
No mention of the Israeli hostages still being held captive in Gaza or the Israeli soldiers who have given their lives to dismantle Hamas's operations. No mention of Hamas's brutal October 7th terror attack on Israelis or its ongoing assault on Israeli citizens. No mention of the international rise in antisemitism and hate crimes toward Jews in the days and months since October 7th. So much for a "balanced" take. I have really enjoyed Jeremiah's content since the early days of KZread (Church of Blow was one of my favorite web series), but regurgitating pro-Palestinian talking points with little context is the sort of hollow, provocative clickbait I thought Jeremiah decries.
Keep doing what you are doing
Love being part of this niche! Thanks Jeremiah
Dude, are you fing kidding me? Who are these little worm tongues whispering," Sell out!", at you? 🙄 Clearly, they do not understand the meaning or point of "sell out" if they're accusing you of it.
AND I'LL TELL YOU SOMETHING ELSE YOU FOUL CRITICS, there's a BIG difference between Pretentious (which I'm fine with whether he qualifies or not) and Elitist. NO THEY'RE NOT THE SAME THERE TWO DIFFERENT WORDS!!! Pretentious is an accusation when the artist has, (god forfend!), standards of some sort. There nothing wrong with having tastes and standards ffs. They're PROBABLY thinking you're "elitist", which can actually be pretty messed posture towards others. I wouldn't worry too much about being pretentious and I'm meant ways, it can be a strength.
What an ironic comment. Especially considering that KZread is just a distribution system like you said, and not the art that is distributed. Better KZreads do exist, but nobody uses them and keeps posting on KZread because it is predictable and familiar… so you know… good luck chaining that.
I post here because it’s where I have the biggest audience, even if it’s just a fraction of it. If I had more people signing up for the newsletter (cough) it wouldn’t matter where I post.
Yes man, just do what you like doing.
4 videos in a row?! This is insane!
What’s weird is I have no memory of making them. They just showed up.
@@ContentWithJeremiah Must be an older Jeremiah then. I was wondering when an older version would show up
Just keep doing what ya do, and don't feed the trolls. Keep fighting the good fight 🤘
I appreciate your stubbornness. The world needs more art and less product. Somehow the current culture derides art as a waste of time because it's not immediately recognizable, comfortable, and, importantly, profitable for ... someone. I'm here for what you do
Been feeling down about wanting to create films while staying true to myself and the overall struggle of an indie filmmaker. Today I had the thought that in the history of filmmaking now is the best time to do it with modest means, so far. The struggle is exposure, the algorithms like you said. I believe there can be a hopeful future as well, we just have to navigate uncharted waters to get there. This was very encouraging, thank you!
I would have absolutely LOVED a sponsor for this video lmao
wanting more from your content isnt pretentious what an actual brain rot comment.
Just stay true to yourself, Jer. I'll be here for the ride with anything you put out that you believe in!
I subscribed a very, very long time ago. It feels like, at least. And I forgot about this channel. Sorry. But KZread said, "ok. This guy right here is calling us out." And ta da! The real issue here is that it's much much hotter since the last time I saw your mug.
Art school grad here. I feel ya. Keep making videos man. You're doing it!
heyy niz vedio mon nize anology it made me 30 min to watch this 5min video
I remember being a teen in the Bernard K Smith days and thinking "This is some intellectual humor". The Doppelganger? Jazz Dispute? Rate My DVDs? This was some gourmet humor. Also there was one where you showed your reel (not your reel-shaped dick) and used Girl Anachronism which introduced me to the Dresden Dolls, so thanks for that!
heyyyy i feel kind of adhd i know i made it up but why is every one that i can realate to showing a strong bond to adhd whats wrong with planet earth huh.......!i dunno man you tell me.....am scared
yeah he's bragging being here 18 years yeah man i have been here like 12yrs and all i those ideas i expressed went right into the black hole sry man its just a spam rant cummon MaN am trying to do better u know!!!
hey @roboboomstick he's not pretending how can i tell yes am stuck as this guy what stuck me i dont know am bored to find out hes in a better place than me how because hes married to a girl and they seem happy yeah i can tell i saw potos of uk in his last video heyy u r actually doing good man and yes man you MUST be more artistic not david lynch kinda artistic like that white guy with afro hair style who use to paint pictures like streaming it online kind of 48-49yr old fella or like george carlin kind of artistic thats our type yeeah 🤠 or far better monty python from parallel universe kind of artistic or mr.bean on acid kind of artistic or whatever man abstract kind of artict like we r from fractalverse kind of artistic if it kind of confuses dont fall wwrong all am telling is more or less absurd art kind of artistic yeah man....or just chill out bruvvv
KZread is so big it can be anything. There are SO many niches and kinds of channels... why can't some of them be art? Some of them almost certainly are.
I'm honestly more optimistic about solving climate change than fixing KZread
when I was young and for most of my twenties, I didn't 'get' art. I could understand when something was attractive to my eye, or if it was architecturally beautiful, but other than that shallow level, I couldn't get it. And I hated impressionism. I was at the national museum one day when I saw the Salvador Dali piece Lobster Telephone - and I can't tell you why or how but that one stupid sculpture unlocked almost all of art for me. It was like suddenly I realised the art was actually supposed to make me think about it not with an objective mind, but specifically with an emotive one. You're meant to feel art like to feel anger or sadness or contentedness. I think when they tell you that you're meant to find art good, that you're meant to try to critique it, but that pretty much misses the point. Art isn't meant to be comparatively good, its just meant to be good for you like lunch is good. Lunch can be better or worse than yesterday, but its still just good.
For me was Un Chien Andalou. Dali again.
Good luck man! It's a shame KZread's algorithms changes so much that even a channel like yours with a lot of subscribers gets so little views
I publish absolute trash... And that's ok with me. Pays *some* bills. Haven't seen you here to duet with a goat or goose...
I like authentic non-fakey, non-pandery people, which is why I like your channel. You make refreshing content, and KZread does notify me when you post something new. It's just timing... will I see it at the top of my list or will other notifications push it down? Same goes with our content. Somehow we have one video out there getting millions of views while others just hover around a thousand 😅
Always a treasure to rewatch. One of the best videos on the internet
So climate change, like art, is for everybody? And it can change you? Fair enough, that makes sense. Unlike your radiator stopper - you know that they work by convection rather than radiation,don't you? That's why yours doesn't work the way it should, as you say. I do like your less-than-obvious metaphors. They make me feel more intelligent, unlike most stuff which just makes me feel that everyone else is more ignorant.
“Climate change is for everyone” I might have to run with this…
Ngl- I disagree with some of your political views at the end, but this was the most inspiring video I've seen in months.
Am I going to create ciphers and lore of a plastic skeleton prop? Yes But that's what makes KZread great, do whatever you want, and hope the algo picks up on it.
Totally agree! I don't think having artistic ambition is at all pretentious. I think that having something meaningful and sincere that you want to share is... like, NORMAL. That's kind of a human standard, that's the human condition. We want to communicate and share and be understood on a deep level! It's having absolutely NOTHING in you that you want to share or create or convey that's noteworthy. Being artistic is human. Not being artistic is... Probably Symptomatic of some serious social ills. 😅
At least that's MY pretentious take!
You're so right, as you were talking about how art changes you my first thought was music. My life started loving rock music (guns n roses, thanks to my brother). Years later I got into rap like Dre and Eminem (thanks to my other brother). Now I love all things folk and I mostly listen to Paul Simon or Bob Dylan... so if I just used algorithms to choose my content I'd still be listening to fucking guns n roses 😂 (which ofc I still go back to once in a blue moon).
Oh what a shame you didn't visit York. No real Doctor Who or Monty Python connections but it's a beautiful city. In all honesty you'd see most of it in a day or two but it's also a great base to visit other places from as well.
I passed through York on the train, snapped a photo of the sign but didn’t include it here.