Animal Charm Videoworks: Volume 1

Animal Charm

00:19:00

Collection: Single Artist Compilations

This compilation is a fresh, witty, and compelling addition to video’s rich legacy of media deconstruction. Through appropriation and reassemblage, these intriguing works upset the hypnotic spectacle of TV viewing by displacing its logic and forcing viewers to make new connections among its codes and conventions. While this disruption is playful, it also reveals the tragic underbelly of corporate message-making—the way it appropriates and suppresses nature and "unpredictability," the way it preys on human vulnerability, and the way it shamelessly celebrates mediocrity and distraction.

Total running time 19:00.

Contents:

Ashley, 1997, 9:00, U.S., color, sound

Lightfoot Fever, 1996, 1:30, U.S., color, sound

Slow Gin Soul Stallion, 1996, 2:30, U.S., color, sound

Stuffing, 1998, 4:00, U.S., color, sound

Working Together, 1996, 2:00, U.S., color, sound

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Animal Charm

Stuffing

1998| 00:04:00

In Animal Charm's masterful example of video montage, a monkey is mesmerized as he watches two dolphins toss a woman from snout to snout. Go cross-eyed with cross-cutting. Sometimes, in order to…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Chicago Art, Culture Jamming, Found Footage, Humor, Television

Animal Charm

Slow Gin Soul Stallion

1996| 00:02:30

The unusual combination of a sound like a singing saw accompanies sweet images of frolicking lambs in the meadow, galloping horses, and a strange boy, is eerily beautiful and pure. This title is…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Chicago Art, Culture Jamming, Found Footage, Humor

Animal Charm

Lightfoot Fever

1996| 00:01:30

Fuelled by lavish doses of disjointed hyper-editing, super-talented Jim Bailey dances with wild animals in Animal Charm's hot and exciting performance of "Fever."This title is also available on…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Chicago Art, Culture Jamming, Found Footage

Animal Charm

Working Together

1996| 00:02:00

What are all of these photographers trying to capture, and just who is collaborating with whom? This short piece could be a take on fame and the cult of the personality — or a tourist portrait with…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Chicago Art, Culture Jamming, Found Footage, Media Analysis, Photography

Animal Charm

Ashley

1997| 00:09:00

Animal Charm's Ashley seems to develop a conventional story about a modern mother and wife with typically modern desires. But the insertion of incongruous soap opera scenes soon ensures that the…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Chicago Art, Culture Jamming, Found Footage, Media Analysis

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