Hold Me Now
2008 | 00:05:09 | United States | English | Color | Stereo | 4:3 | DV video
Collection: Single Titles
Tags: Found Footage, Music Video


Plagued by blindness, sloth, and devotion, a troubled scene from Little House On The Prairie offers itself up to karaoke exorcism.
— Michael Robinson
“[T]he often ingratiating nostalgia of the long-running drama Little House On The Prairie takes a free fall in an unsettling sequence of agony metamorphosing into Exorcist-like bodily possession. Made for the PDX Film Festival’s ‘Karaoke Throwdown’ and thus featuring another instrumental track of the Thompson Twin’s eponymous song, the longing lyrics absurdly subtitle a slowed-down passage of Melissa Sue Anderson’s character rising upon waking, shaking in convulsions, and smashing a bedroom window with her hands (all while her husband tries in vain to hold her).”
— Henriette Huldisch, Aurora: The Infinite Measure, Fall 2008
This title is also available on Michael Robinson Videoworks: Volume 1
Prizes + Awards
3rd Prize, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival
Premiere
PDX Film FestivalPortland, OR
2008
Exhibitions + Festivals
Whitney Biennial 2012
New York Film Festival
Antimatter Festival
Onion City, Chicago, IL
Chicago Underground Film Festival, IL
Boston Underground Film Festival
Viennale: The Vienna International Film Festival
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
Cucaloris Film Festival