Light is Waiting
2007 | 00:11:26 | United States | English | Color | Stereo | 4:3 | DV video
Collection: Single Titles
Tags: Found Footage, Image Processing
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A very special episode of television's Full House devours itself from the inside out, excavating a hypnotic nightmare of a culture lost at sea. Tropes of video art and family entertainment face off in a luminous orgy neither can survive.
-- Michael Robinson
“If you see one 11-minute video this year, make it Michael Robinson's magnificent, hilarious, and terrifying Light Is Waiting (2007). The primordial, extreme slo-mo soundtrack is like a glitch mix from beyond the grave by DJ Screw. Robinson's seizure-inducing blasts of stroboscopic light rival those of the Austrian film experimentalist Peter Tscherkassky. And I haven't even mentioned the Olsen twins … Light Is Waiting exorcises American pop cultural demons via video the way Kenneth Anger did with film in 1964's Scorpio Rising.”
-- Johnny Ray Huston, San Francisco Bay Guardian, April 2008
Premiere
Gallery 400Chicago, IL
01/01/2007
Exhibitions + Festivals
SAW Media Art Center, Under the Rainbow: The Films and Videos of Michael Robinson, July 13 2012
Whitney Biennial 2012
Revelation Perth International Film Festival
Index Festival, NYC
San Francisco International Animation Festival
Festival Cote Court, Pantin, France
FLEX Festival, FL
Wisconsin Film Festival
Hong Kong International Film Festival
Melbourne International Film Festival
Nashville Film Festival
Chicago Underground Film Festival
New York Underground Film Festival
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival
IAO Psychedelic Festival, Bordeaux, France
New York Film Festival
PDX Festival, Portland, OR
Chroma Festival, Guadelajara, Mexico
Curtas Cinema
Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival
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