Hey pals. On this month’s Weather Report, we’re following up our last episode on America’s new image politics with someone who’s been there on the ground: Anthony DiMieri, one of the independent filmmakers behind Zohran Mamdani’s man-on-the-street, documentary-style visual campaign. In addition to iconic Zohran videos like “freeze the rent” and “halalflation” (Anthony coined the term), you may also be familiar with his work as a videographer and director for SubwayTakes, the creator of viral sitcom Bros, and co-founder (with Debbie Saslaw) of the political video production company Melted Solids. He’s also got a pair of feature films coming out—Romance Never Dies and Love New York—the latter of which is screening at the Bowery Film Festival on Tuesday December 9.
Anthony is a great storyteller, and you’re definitely going to want to hear him tell us about the many overlapping cinematic universes (Tommy Wiseau! SubwayTakes! Keep the Meter Running!) that fed into his work on the Zohran c…
