SantaCon: How a Surrealist Prank Became a Global Red-Suited Pub Crawl

SantaCon: how a surrealist prank became a global red-suited pub crawl

Our friends at Laughing Squid have shared filmmaker Steve Bustin's new documentary on SantaCon, tracing how a small San Francisco art prank snowballed into an international, booze-fueled holiday ritual. The documentary, which was was directed by Seth Porges of Class Action Park and How To Rob a Bank, takes the audience back the early days of Santacon with footage by Scott Beale (Portland 1996, Los Angeles 1997 and New York City 1998), Chuck Cir…

'Santacon', An Immersive Documentary Exploring the Origins of the World's Most Infamous Christmas Tradition

image via Santacon Santacon is an immersive documentary film about the creative origins behind the world’s most infamous Christmas tradition. Santacon originated as an idea by Rob Schmidt that was brought to life by the San Francisco Cacophony Society in 1994. As it caught on, Santacon evolved and became so massive that Laughing Squid’s very own Scott Beale coined the term “Santarchy” and Rob Schmidt (Santa Rob) told everyone to go do something …