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Multiple Barbie

Joe Gibbons

1998 00:09:00 United StatesEnglishB&WStereo4:3Pixelvision video

Description

Shot in Pixelvision, Joe Gibbon's Multiple Barbie features the artist as a smooth-talking psychoanlayst imploring the silent doll to explore her multiple personalities in order to purge their power from her psyche.

This title is also available on American Psycho(drama): Sigmund Freud vs. Henry Ford.

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