Spin is a comedy and family movie about a teenage Indian-American girl who discovers her talent for DJing. With her eclectic taste in music and her group of friends, she navigates the challenges of pursuing her passion and finding her unique beats.
Jam is a surreal comedy TV show that combines elements of sketch comedy, satire, and postmodernism. It explores themes of paranoia, distortion, and irreverence through a series of bizarre and nonsensical sketches and monologues. The show features ambient music and musical numbers, creating a unique and entertaining viewing experience. Based on a sketch comedy radio show, Jam takes viewers on a surreal journey that challenges traditional notions of television entertainment.
Tim and Eric Nite Live! was an American television series, which premiered November 8, 2007 on SuperDeluxe. The talk show stars Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, creators of Tom Goes to the Mayor and Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, and consists of a variety of strange segments often featuring Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! regulars such as David Liebe Hart and James Quall. It also repeatedly features Awesome Show regular Richard Dunn in a sidekick/father-figure type role. The show has seen many guests in its short internet-only SuperDeluxe exclusive run from such actors, singers and comedians as John Mayer, Zach Galifianakis, Bob Odenkirk, Will Forte, Rainn Wilson, and Jonah Hill.
Life in Loops (A Megacities RMX) is a documentary film released in 2006 that explores the remix culture in megacities. The film delves into the various aspects of remixing in urban environments, examining how different forms of art and culture collide and influence each other in these bustling cities.
What would it sound like if the national anthem was written today? Anthem follows composer Kris Bowers and producer Dahi on a musical road trip across the country to reflect on “The Star-Spangled Banner” to find out.
Terror Nullius is a remix collage film that takes snippets of Australian film and television history to create a political and cultural critique. It explores themes of colonialism, politics, and nostalgia, while also incorporating elements of mythology and eco-horror.
Through unique archival work and access to never-before-seen interviews, we get to hear the artist Tim Bergling himself tell the story of his life and follow along on his winding journey - from the very first breath at BB in Stockholm in 1989 to the tragic end in Oman in 2018.
Commercial Entertainment Product is a satirical movie that criticizes media manipulation and commercialism. It combines elements of electronic music, video collage, and techno music to create a visually captivating experience. The movie takes a satirical approach to critique American television and politics, using distorted images, repeated stock footage, and news footage. It also includes montages of presidential addresses and state-of-the-union speeches. Through its unique video art style, the movie aims to highlight the culture of commercial entertainment and the impact of media on society.
In the early years of cinema, editors were usually women. This short documentary looks at how they wielded power, and how their work was made invisible.
Hollywood Burn is a documentary film that delves into the history and consequences of video piracy in Tinseltown. Through a collage of film clips and archival footage, the movie showcases the rise of video piracy and its effects on the film industry. It examines the legacy of piracy and its impact on both the art of filmmaking and the economy of Hollywood. With a blend of nostalgia and critical analysis, Hollywood Burn paints a comprehensive picture of the controversial topic.
A remix film combining elements of found footage and structural filmmaking by combining Humphrey Bogart's quote from Casablanca with found footage of explosions, emphasized by repetition.
Comprised entirely of hundreds of pirated film samples, Hello Dankness is a bent suburban musical that bears witness to the psychotropic cultural spectacle of the period 2016 to 2021. Set in the American suburbs, the film follows a neighbourhood through these years as consensus reality disintegrates into conspiracies and other political contagions. Part political satire, zombie stoner film, and Greek tragedy, the work is also informed by the encrypted memetics of contemporary internet culture.
A short film that mashes up scenes from the Disney Winnie the Pooh with dialogue from Apocalypse Now.
"365 days, also known as a Year" is a collage calendar of different film frames for each date. Day by day, 365 days in a row.
AGFA’S SPECIAL CHRISTMAS SPECIAL is a brand new, feature-length mixtape culled from the tinsel-strewn video vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA). Beaming with deranged holiday cheer, this compilation wouldn’t feel out of place on a broadcast from the TV station in VIDEODROME.
An episode in Soda_Jerk's multi-channel digital-video installation cycle entitled "Astro Black". We are the Robots re-imagines the iconic scene in the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), where sci-entists use a synthesizer keyboard to communicate with an alien mothership. In Soda_Jerk’s revision of these events, Kraftwerk play sequences from their own music and the mothership responds with frag-ments of tracks that have sampled Kraftwerk. This jam session– between the original and sampled ver-sions of Kraftwerk’s music–explores the impact of German electronic music on Afrofuturist sonic culture.
An episode in Soda_Jerk's multi-channel digital-video installation cycle entitled "Astro Black". Race for Space gives life to Sun Ra’s claim to have been abducted by aliens who schooled him in the radical potential of music. While working as a piano man in Chicago in 1943, Sun Ra is contacted by Morpheus who offers him a choice of two destinies. Flashing forward to the 1969 moon landing, Neil Armstrong discovers that outer space has already been colonized by Sun Ra and his intergalactic ensemble, The Arkestra. At stake in this episode is the cultural politics implicit in the territorialization of outer space, both as a geography and a virtual field of possibility.
The film is a study of nature and significance of the hands in cinema. Besides review of movements and actions, which creates an independent story, it reveals interactions and interdependence of cinematic traditions of various authors, countries and periods