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

Jason Weisberger
Oct 10, 2025
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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 wit…

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