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Sabotaging Spring

Joe Gibbons

1991 00:10:00 United StatesEnglishColorMono4:3

Description

“It’s spring, it’s spring, and I feel I’m giving birth myself, to something monstrous, something ugly.” Gibbons enters the woods to begin his destructive campaign against spring, snapping the buds off trees while babbling maniacally. Sabotaging Spring is an impressionistic peek at Gibbons’s paranoid fancy; he explains the facts of life, evolution, and whistling to his dog Woody.

This title is also available on Joe Gibbons Videoworks: Volume 1.

Joe Gibbons conveys his dry humor through obsessive monologues that scrape the bottom of a monomaniacal mind—spilling forth with fantasies of power, destruction, and death. In his videos, the hand-held camera allows Gibbons's alter-ego to surface as he gives vent to tyrannical rants that comically invert social values.

Also see: 

Joe Gibbons: An Interview