Slacker
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Sep 7, 2026
Damien SwabyHOST
Katie's journey embodies many of those themes.
Damien SwabyHOST
As the first publicist for Richard Linklater's Slacker, Katie worked to get the film into festivals and played a big part in its journey towards secure and distribution.
Damien SwabyHOST
She later developed her own voice as a writer and a director.
Damien SwabyHOST
We discuss independent cinema, the influence of the French New Wave, the historical challenges faced by women directors, and the persistence it took to make I Dream Too Much.
Katie CokinosGUEST
I was like, wait, what? And we also did, we managed the independent...
Katie CokinosGUEST
production fund through the National Endowment for the Arts, and we had a territory.
Katie CokinosGUEST
And that is, as fate would have it, where I first heard about, read about Slacker as a work in progress.
Katie CokinosGUEST
Richard Linklater was applying to finish his very unusual, very unusual movie in 1988.
Megan KearnsHOST
I love that it's very much a philosophical and existential crisis.
Megan KearnsHOST
And I, You know, the director in Filmmaker Magazine said he was very much inspired by the movie Slacker and he wanted to shift from a horror movie into a hangout movie.
Megan KearnsHOST
And that very much is what happens here.
JD DuranHOST
Yeah.
Honey PlutonGUEST
at this.
Honey PlutonGUEST
Slacker.
Honey PlutonGUEST
Slacker.
Honey PlutonGUEST
You're watching people forever on your VHS.
Honey PlutonGUEST
Yes.
Jason HendersonHOST
in this period where basically the way that indie films worked is mostly, whatever the plot was, people spent a lot of time just walking around.
Jason HendersonHOST
Slacker.
Jason HendersonHOST
Slacker was almost entirely just conversation.
Jason HendersonHOST
This movie is like Slacker with vampires.
Jason HendersonHOST
It is amazing.
Jason HendersonHOST
And again, I'm saying that having watched it.
KoryHOST
So at this point, I wrote this is a nameless movie, but I think that's the point.
KoryHOST
Much like Slacker was, it's just like two dudes living their life.
KoryHOST
Much of Link's later stuff.
KoryHOST
is about people living um so then they're on a they're on a mountain uh in the snow in Montana I wrote that the snow does not look real or it's mega packs and I don't know which one is true I assume he did not uh manufacture snow for this movie because it was made for five thousand dollars three thousand dollars No, she was really cheap in the 80s, actually.
KoryHOST
You can see a lot of the spark or I can see a lot of the sparks having seen the before trilogy and boyhood and some other stuff from him.
KoryHOST
You can see the sparks of where he's going to be, where he's where he wants to go with these types of movies.
KoryHOST
I mean, even when we watch Slacker, we're going to see like how much of Slacker was influenced by this.
KoryHOST
But yeah, extreme vibe movie.
Shoshana RosenbaumGUEST
...
Shoshana RosenbaumGUEST
Slacker.
Shoshana RosenbaumGUEST
I do remember seeing Dazed and Confused in college and-
Jordan CrucchiolaHOST
Mm-hmm
Keith MaitlandHOST
That's incredible.
Keith MaitlandHOST
Lee Daniel, of course, is the... well known for being the cinematographer of both Slacker and Dazed and Confused, and, you know, just like a quintessential foundational member of the Austin film community in the, in the '80s and '90s.
Margaret BrownGUEST
Yeah.
Keith MaitlandHOST
And beyond.
Alexander UllomGUEST
but like, yes, it was a testament to like delusion and a bunch of like film kids that loved each other.
Alexander UllomGUEST
So I really would love if this film could be like when I saw Slacker for the first time and I was like, "Oh, I can go make a movie with, you know- ... faces talking.
Alexander UllomGUEST
That's really it.
Matt NegliaHOST
Yeah.
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Alexander UllomGUEST
Where it's like anyone can fucking do this shit, serious- I mean, sometimes the industry works for like, you know, on a, on a meritocracy basis.
Alexander UllomGUEST
Like, it's been very...
Alexander UllomGUEST
I, I did a, like, a Q&A at, um, at a film school yesterday, and yeah, that is exact- like, the same feeling I got when I saw Slacker for the first time.
Alexander UllomGUEST
I hope that that's where this movie lives in the, you know, history of movies or whatever is like, "Hey, that, you know, delusional 22-year-old made that thing.
Jonathan MoodyGUEST
Yeah.
Jonathan MoodyGUEST
So those, and those guys like Tarantino doing, uh, Reservoir Dogs and, um, what is it? Um, uh, Richard Linklater doing Slacker, um, Kevin Smith doing Clerks, you know, all those movies that went to like Sundance and now it's different.
Jonathan MoodyGUEST
Yeah.
Jonathan MoodyGUEST
There would be, uh, small versions and stuff.
MarcoHOST
Mm-hmm
DrewPANELIST
... from Slacker.
MarcoHOST
Yeah.
MarcoHOST
The c- the co- literal cover girl-
DrewPANELIST
Yes
MarcoHOST
... for Slacker.
DrewPANELIST
Yeah.
DrewPANELIST
So, um, yeah, so I was a little, little saddened by that, actually.
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