Self-Tape

Self-tapes are typically never seen by the public as their purpose has been reserved for auditioning. Thousands of actors are submitted for a single role in a film, TV show, or play. Hundreds are selected to send in a self-tape, which is the actor performing one or more scenes from the project they are auditioning for. Out of those hundreds of tapes, only one actor is selected for the role.

Hundreds of actors spend thousands of hours working on self-tapes which are never seen by the public. That art is simply thrown into the recycle bin and the files lost forever.

It would be like hundreds of painters throwing their paintings in the trash because their paintings were not selected to be put on display in a gallery.

The frame is the actor's canvas, the self-tape is the actor's painting, and I believe that actors should no longer throw their paintings away.

Each month, I will create a new self-tape open edition on Base. Each tape will be available to mint for thirty days. These self-tapes will not be for projects that I am currently auditioning for (due to NDAs). Instead, these self-tapes will be for myself and the community interested in supporting and collecting the work of this artist, who just happens to be an actor. Thank you.