This real-time video-meets-digital-animation trilogy of shorts features the highly excited and mildly delusional Joe Gibbons, whose springboard becomes a surfboard as he fantasizes about his days as a lifeguard in 1963, when the young Brian Wilson would sit and jot down the songs he would sing while saving lives. Along with Caddy and The Horror, Pool Boy makes up Emily Breer's The Phony Trilogy.
This title is also available on American Psycho(drama): Sigmund Freud vs. Henry Ford.
For more than 15 years, New York-based artist Emily Breer has made films and videos that fuse live-action and playful animation. She frequently collaborates with performer and video artist Joe Gibbons (The Phony Trilogy, 1997, and Classics Exposed, 1999) to create loony portraits of megalomania and misinformation. Her work has screened at festivals and festivals internationally and been broadcast on PBS. In addition, her music videos and spots have screened in more pop-oriented forums such as MTV and Comedy Central.