Outer Space

One of the most dedicated film deconstructionist working today, PETER TCHERKASSKY's 1999 film OUTER SPACE truly shows the outer limits of the world of motion pictures. Part cut-up, structuralist cinema, and filmic fantasy, the work of TCHERKASSKY instills a new kind of drama into previously traditional footage.

Who I Am and What I Want

Have I ever told you my life story?

(From David Shrigley)

The Discipline of D.E.

Early short film by GUS VAN SANT, based on the WILLIAM BURROUGHS short story of the same name. From 1978.

Sometimes by MIKE MILLS

Music video by MIKE MILLS for the 1999 song SOMETIMES by LES RYTHMES DIGITALES.

The Lost Tribes of New York City

Directed by CAROLYN and ANDY LONDON

BARR: First song

Artist BRENDEN FOWLER'S spoken word project BARR performed last night at the New Museum, NYC, where he also has work in the YOUNGER THAN JESUS generational exhibit up now.

This video was made by DAVID HORVITZ.

Alex Bag, first tape

Video artist ALEX BAG got her start producing videos for public access television. After getting kicked off the airwaves (twice), she found her distribution home among the art galleries, where she's been making her living lampooning the very world that accepts her.

Her first tape, and only one available for viewing, is from 1995, and includes BAG's signature one-woman performances, incuding the evolution of an SVA student. It's worth watching all the way through. I especially love the "Seudehead" segment.

Concerning distribution and exhibition, it's my belief that BAG's anarchist art world vision is being subsumed by the art world itself. ALEX: Break free and distribute your own work, either online or by DVD. You have an audience waiting for you when you do.

Gremlins vs the Avant-Garde

When I first saw GREMLINS 2 at a movie theater as a kid, it included this now famous scene involving HULK HOGAN. In a bold, self-described "anarchist," move, filmmaker JOE DANTE included a scene in which it appears the film is broken (by Gremlins in our projection booth!), and the HULK has to convince them to start it again:



When the movie was put out on home video, the filmmakers decided to put together a scene in which it appeared that gremlins had taken over the video feed, and, um, started flipping channels, I guess:



Of course, GREMLINS 2 wasn't the first film to "break the fourth wall," but certainly it is one of the most high profile.
Cheers to anarchy in Hollywood!