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Barbie's Audition

Joe Gibbons

1995 00:13:07 United StatesEnglishB&WMono4:3Pixelvision video

Description

Gibbons plays the sleazy Director and lampoons the movie audition and its legendary corollary, the casting couch. Barbie is recast, not as the impossible-to-attain ideal beauty, but as the victim of sexual harrassment and exploitation.

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