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It was great to record a new Experimentally ILL podcast with Boston Open Screen regular James Ristas (James Butterfield) at Cambridge Community Television! Check it out and don’t miss us at @TheCoolidge Tuesday October 14th for #BostonOpenScreen and partake in the Exhibition of Ramgog at Industry Lab in Cambridge, MA on 10/18 7-9PM! @the_real_ramgog! More info:

Experimentally ILL Podcast with Michael O’Toole #120 ‘Ramgog’ Filmmaker James Ristas 10/2/25.

Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube and more!

James Ristas is a filmmaker currently working out of Marlborough, MA. He attended the New York
Film Academy Director’s Workshop class of ’97
and has a degree in Radio, TV and Film from
South Dakota State University.
His short film, RAMGOG has been on the festival
circuit for the last year and was nominated for The Delta Award at the 2024 Festival of
Fantastic Films in Manchester, UK.
His animated series, PASSION OF RAMGOG runs on CCTV channel 8,
and he’s here to talk about THE EXHIBITION OF RAMGOG, a gallery showcase to be held at Industry Lab in Cambridge on the evening of Saturday, the 18th of October, 7PM-9PM. It’s a free event and will also be the premiere of his new short
film, RAMGOG VS GOGMAR.
For more information on that, go to
passionoframgog dot org.

podcast #filmmakers #indiefilm #Spotify #ramgog #passionoframgog #jamesristas #experimentallyill #cctvcambridge

Hey kids! Our ILL co-producer/co-editor @LawrenceHollie73 returns to @OpenScreenLA at @LyricHyperion on 9/2/25 with #ExperimentallyILL: The Movie 2 among sundry other shorts! Showtime: 7:30PM! Laugh, cry, hurl! It’s the movie series that @d.l.polonsky calls “That THING.” Check out Experimentally ILL dot com for more! @BostonOpenScreen returns 10/14/25 at @TheCoolidge 7:30PM! For those in West Hollywood, checkout Spectrum Channel 36 tonight and subsequent Mondays at 10PM PST for the Experimentally ILL TV show! Where there’s an ILL, there’s a way! Be part of the Experiment! #indiefilm #lafilm #experimental #artfilm #westhollywood #westhollywoodpublicaccess #hollywoodpublicaccess

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA! TONIGHT 8/25/25 and subsequent Mondays at 10PM PST the half hour Experimentally ILL TV is debuting on West Hollywood Spectrum Channel 36.
It is produced by Michael Phelan O’Toole & Lawrence Hollie (Non Code) but thank you programmer Peter Levine (@levinep90) for the support!

Also checkout Peter’s documentary on @ProfBobWhite playing at @cctvcambridge on 9/4 at 6:30PM – “Who The F Is Bob White?” Bob has also been a great supporter of ILL, too! Stay weird, Hollywooood! You watch DL Polonsky’s head while his head watches you!

Then tomorrow Tuesday at 4PM EST and Thursday at 7:30PM EST on @CCTVCambridge see our show on Channel 8 and the #CCTVCambridge web steam!

Where there’s an ILL, there’s a way, so be part of the Experiment!

indiefilm #hollywoodpublicaccess @bostonopenscreen @openscreenwest @openscreenla @lawrencehollie73 #lafilm #experimentallyill #westhollywood #hollywood @timanderic

indiefilm #FanExpoBoston #newenglandfilm #3dglasses #experimentallyill

It’s going down at the The Lyric Hyperion next week at 7:30pm on the nose…LA will witnesss the film creation of myself & Michael O’Toole with the 4th installment of our Experimentally ILL film series playing at Open Screen LA. And wait, there’s more…

June 17th, ‘25 Experimentally ILL 4 will be played all the way on the east coast during Boston Open Screen too! Don’t miss either showing, trek across country to catch them both in the theater! Experimentally ILL 4 features: Michael O’Toole, DL Polonsky, Hartley Pleshaw, Kilian Skarletto Jones, Paul McGillicuddy, Mick Cusimano and I did the editing and sequencing for most of the film give or take a segment or two. I am not on the screen for this one unfortunately. But hey, Paul launches into space via flatulence so…there’s that.

Lawrence Hollie

Experimentally ILL Podcast with Michael O’Toole #119: Hartley Pleshaw (Host of Active Radio, Writer for Imagine Magazine and Actor for Experimentally ILL) 5/18/25

Experimentally ILL Podcast with Michael O’Toole #118 features a chat with Mike’s mom/Artist/Poet Patrice O’Toole on her 71st birthday.

Appearing in Experimentally ILL: The Movie 7, 9 and 10, which played at Lyric Hyperion in LA, Somerville Theatre during IFFBoston and The Coolidge Corner Theatre as part of Boston Open Screen. 

Working at the New England Aquarium with the famous Andre The Seal, who later had a Disney film made about him.

1970’s poetry, alternative high school, faith-ful car washes and more life story!

visit http://ExperimentallyILL.com for more

Or be part of the Experiment when Experimentally ILL shorts a short!

More info:

https://staging–iffboston.netlify.app/series/the-festival/event/boston-open-screen/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR5TNIBJqGpu1tVAuQSIdnDW-pFzn8n_EgqlXQ5T_CDNgE_HHhlRKOBSBTWlcg_aem_7E5UC39xosgd37ySRZvKTw

The regular monthly Open Screen returns to The Coolidge May 13th at 7PM.

Where there’s an ILL, there’s a way!

Experimentally ILL Podcast #117 4/4/25 Michael O’Toole & Lawrence Hollie talk their ten Experimentally ILL movies and pay tribute to late friend/videographer Robert W. Lee of Sha La La La Productions and actor Val Kilmer

I shall be at @BostonOpenScreen at @TheCoolidge tonight at 7PM (4/8/25) to continue the simILLcast effort.

I will screen #ExperimentallyILL: The Movie 2, off the heels of @LawrenceHollie73’s great screening filled with laughter and confusion at @LyricHyperion during @OpenScreenLA last week.

Featuring the hit song “You Can Get Danny Trejo, @officialdannytrejo” @HartleyPleshaw’s Artificial Intelligence oration (feat @reelgroovyfilms’ Goth Robot), @D.L.Polonsky getting shocked, Mick Cusimano’s The Only Beautiful Woman In Denver and more. This has not been seen on the big screen in Massachusetts since 2023. Be part of The Experiment and meet us at Grainne O’Malley’s Tavern after the films!

— Michael O’Toole

#BostonOpenScreen #ExperimentallyILLMovies #CoolidgeCornerTheatre #newenglandfilm #indiefilm