These Hammers Don't Hurt Us
2010 | 00:12:51 | United States | English | Color | Stereo | 4:3 | DV video
Collection: Single Titles
Tags: Found Footage, Hollywood, Music, Myth
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Tired of underworld and overworld alike, Isis escourts her favorite son on their final curtain call down the Nile, leaving a neon wake of shattered tombs and sparkling sarcophagi.
-- Michael Robinson
“Looking to a future beyond death, Michael Robinson's These Hammers Don't Hurt Us, one of the filmmaker's most sophisticated found footage concoctions yet, combines Michael Jackson's "Remember the Time" music video with footage of Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra and roughly a dozen other sources, creating for the late pop star a solemn passage into a bedazzled Egyptian afterlife tenderly ushered by his real-life confidante.”
-- Genevieve Yue, Reverse Shot, Winter 2010
Prizes + Awards
Tiger Short Award Nominee, International Film Festival Rotterdam
Most Technically Innovative Film Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival
Premiere
New York Film Festival, Views from the Avant-GardeNew York, , NY
01/01/2010
Exhibitions + Festivals
SAW Media Art Center, Under the Rainbow: The Films and Videos of Michael Robinson, July 13 2012
Whitney Biennial 2012
Hong Kong International Film Festival
European Media Art Festival
25 FPS, Zagreb
London Film Festival
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Media City, Windsor
Wisconsin Film Festival
Video Art Dumbo, Brooklyn
Migrating Forms, NY
Antimatter Festival
VIDEOEX
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