Michael Robinson Videoworks: Volume 1

1 DVD

Collection: New Releases, Single Artist Compilations

Tags: Body, Consumer culture, Found Footage, Gender, LGBTQ, Memory, Music, Television, Videoworks

Michael Robinson's video artworks evade easy categorization — defying genre, the works create their own set of rules. Using found footage, on-screen text, and various video formats, Robinson sparks vibrating frequencies between seemingly disparate parts. Michael Robinson: Videoworks Volume 1 surveys video works made between 2006-2010, exploring an abstracted landscape of media consciousness, bouncing between television, pop music, and personal experiences.

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Michael Robinson The General Returns... 2006 \| 10:45 Through a concurrently indulgent and skeptical experience of the beautiful, the video draws an uneasy balance between the romantic and the horrid. A nihilistic monologue (from Frank O’Hara’s play of the same title) attempts to undercut the... Collection: Single Titles Tags: landscape, literature	Michael Robinson Light is Waiting 2007 \| 11:26 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... Collection: Single Titles Tags: found footage, image processing
Michael Robinson Carol Anne is Dead 2008 \| 07:30 A family embraces the heart of evil in this Poltergeist re-make/drag show, circa 1992. Collection: Single Titles Tags: family, found footage, gender, performance	Michael Robinson All Through the Night 2008 \| 04:24 A charred visitation with an icy language of control: "there is no room for love". Splinters of Nordic fairy tales and ecological disaster films are ground down into a prism of contradictions in this hopeful container for hopelessness. — Michael... Collection: Single Titles Tags: found footage, literature
Michael Robinson Hold Me Now 2008 \| 05:09 Plagued by blindness, sloth, and devotion, a troubled scene from Little House On The Prairie offers itself up to karaoke exorcism. — Michael Robinson Collection: Single Titles Tags: found footage, music video	Michael Robinson If There Be Thorns 2009 \| 13:24 A dark wave of incest and magic burns across the tropics, forging a knotted trail into the black hole. Taking its title from the V.C. Andrews novel (a sequel to Flowers In The Attic), and weaving together texts from Shirley Jackson, William S.... Collection: Single Titles Tags: family, literature
Michael Robinson These Hammers... 2010 \| 12:51 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. Collection: Single Titles Tags: found footage, hollywood, music, myth

Michael Robinson The General Returns... 2006 \| 10:45 Through a concurrently indulgent and skeptical experience of the beautiful, the video draws an uneasy balance between the romantic and the horrid. A nihilistic monologue (from Frank O’Hara’s play of the same title) attempts to undercut the... Collection: Single Titles Tags: landscape, literature	Michael Robinson Light is Waiting 2007 \| 11:26 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... Collection: Single Titles Tags: found footage, image processing
Michael Robinson Carol Anne is Dead 2008 \| 07:30 A family embraces the heart of evil in this Poltergeist re-make/drag show, circa 1992. Collection: Single Titles Tags: family, found footage, gender, performance	Michael Robinson All Through the Night 2008 \| 04:24 A charred visitation with an icy language of control: "there is no room for love". Splinters of Nordic fairy tales and ecological disaster films are ground down into a prism of contradictions in this hopeful container for hopelessness. — Michael... Collection: Single Titles Tags: found footage, literature
Michael Robinson Hold Me Now 2008 \| 05:09 Plagued by blindness, sloth, and devotion, a troubled scene from Little House On The Prairie offers itself up to karaoke exorcism. — Michael Robinson Collection: Single Titles Tags: found footage, music video	Michael Robinson If There Be Thorns 2009 \| 13:24 A dark wave of incest and magic burns across the tropics, forging a knotted trail into the black hole. Taking its title from the V.C. Andrews novel (a sequel to Flowers In The Attic), and weaving together texts from Shirley Jackson, William S.... Collection: Single Titles Tags: family, literature
Michael Robinson These Hammers... 2010 \| 12:51 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. Collection: Single Titles Tags: found footage, hollywood, music, myth

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