American Psycho(drama):
Sigmund Freud vs. Henry Ford
Guest curated by Nelson Henricks
This humorous selection of performance-oriented videos maps a trajectory between consumer society and the psychoanalytic confession. Halflifers perform two rescue missions using colored snack food and everyday objects as means towards transcendence. In The Horror, Emily Breer and Joe Gibbons recuperate Coppola's "Apocalypse Now" as a day at the beach. Gibbons solo work, Multiple Barbie features the artist as a smooth talking psychoanlayst, gently attempting to fuse the mute doll's shattered plastic psyche. Three works by Anne McGuire all employ genre conventions derived from popular culture (the variety show, the talk show and the rock video); McGuire's presence as a performer amplifies the sense of strangeness that lies at the heart of the familiar, creating a vertigo between form and content. Animal Charm's interventions in this program are homemade commericals and info-mercials, sampled from a reservoir of neglected or useless images.
Stuffing
Animal
Charm
4:00 1998
In this masterly example of video montage, a monkey is mesmerised as he watches two dolphins toss a woman from snout to snout. Turn cross-eyed with cross-cutting.
Control
Corridor 
HalfLifers
11:00 1997
In a fictional conduit space, language and function are recontextualized as two navigators struggle to re-assess the nature of their mission while engaged in an eternal cycle of maintenance and communication routines.
Pool Boy
The
Phony Trilogy
Emily
Breer
Joe
Gibbons
A real-time video-meets-digital-animation trilogy of shorts featuring the highly excited and mildly delusional Joe Gibbons. As the phony, Gibbons recounts his influence among rock legends Iggy Pop and Brian Wilson. Brilliant computer animation superimposition by Emily Breer provide an additional layer of biting commentary.
Caddy
1:00 1997
The
Horror
2:00 1997
Pool
Boy
1:00 1997
I'm
crazy and You're Not Wrong
Anne
McGuire
11:00 1997
A wonderfully witty work about nostalgia and desperation. Anne McGuire portrays a Kennedy-era singer performing in the space where theatre meets television.
Ashley
Animal
Charm
9:00 1997
Ashley seems to develop a conventional story about a modern wife and mother with typically modern desires. But the editing in of incongruous soap scenes soon ensures that the seductive images take on an absurd and oppressive charge.
Actions
In Action
HalfLifers
10:30 1997
An ordinary domestic setting is hilariously recast as a psychoactive landscape in which the concept of function becomes situational and fluid.
The
Telling
Anne
McGuire
11:00 1998
The Telling (1994/98) shows McGuire telling two acquaintances a secret about her past using a three camera set-up in the Desi Arnez style.
Multiple
Barbie
Joe
Gibbons
9:00 1998
Shot in pixelvision, 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.
Cardoso
Flea Circus
Maria
Fernanda Cardoso
Ross
Rudesch Harley
8:00 1997
Nobody believed it was possible to train fleas, but Maria Fernanda Cardoso has proven them wrong. After five years of intensive research, the Cardoso Flea Circus is presented here in this sensational video. Thanks to sophisticated video equipment and high tech lenses, Ross Rudesch Harley has captured the feats of these prodigious insects in the world's smallest Spectacle: The Cardoso Flea Circus!
When
I Was A Monster
Anne
McGuire
6:00 1996
A performance about the artist's experience in the aftermath of an accident.
Lightfoot
Fever
Animal
Charm
1:30 1996
Fuelled by lavish doses of disconjunctive hyper-editing, super talented Jim Bailey dances with wild animals in this hot and exciting performance of "Fever."