Art Com Demo

0:00Copy video clip URL “Americans (mer-kins)” by Chris Mullington (1988)

1:15Copy video clip URL “When you kiss me, it feels like…” A couple kiss with tongues in a park. Looks like early black and white video.

1:36Copy video clip URL “Clara” A woman talks about beginning to raise children after her husband passes away. She says she’d rather give to her kids than to another man from the street.

3:00Copy video clip URL “Born to Be Wild” A couple drive down the highway on a motorcycle.

3:27Copy video clip URL “Elvis Lives” Impressionistic piece featuring weird digital imagery of Elvis. A music video about Elvis still being alive.

7:13Copy video clip URL “Ghost Dance” A young kid recites the lyrics to “Livin’ On A Prayer,” over footage of Indian lands and Indian Ghost Dance footage.

9:25Copy video clip URL “Motivation” Shots of a graveyard and religious-oriented roadside signs.

10:00Copy video clip URL “The Greatest Car Ever Made” A musical ode to the Studebaker.

12:37Copy video clip URL “The Long Arm of the Law” A guard at a national landmark makes the cameraman turn off his camera.

13:00Copy video clip URL “Vegas” An old man talks about the greatness of Vegas over shots of seemy sides of the city. Some narration about God defeating Satan on Earth.

15:38Copy video clip URL “Cowboys” A cowboy tackles a bull at the rodeo.

15:58Copy video clip URL “Indians” Indians herd cattle along in slow-motion.

16:33Copy video clip URL “Hollywood Girls” A musical segment sung by a transvestite in a talking-fashion, focusing on Hollywood social situations.

18:47Copy video clip URL “Miss Bunny’s Routine” A terrifyingly skinny transvestite lip-synchs for the audience.

19:46Copy video clip URL “H20” Slow shots of the flag and people on a beach. End credits.

21:49Copy video clip URL “Cheerful Impressions Upon Arrival In the Countryside” by Phil Patiris (1991) A montage of ecological disasters associated with man-made pollution, especially the Exon-Valdez oil disaster.

27:09Copy video clip URL “Not a Jealous Bone” by Cecilia Condit (1987). A short funny song and story about aging. A story about Sophie, who finds a bone which will allow her to live forever. This thing is really not very fun to watch at all.

37:25Copy video clip URL “Continental Drift” by Jill Scott (1991). Impressionistic video-art piece about breast cancer and dying. Some visual graphics about changing your own DNA structure. The character eventually gets well and then, “orders a large dose of life for herself. For everyone!” A final world on the tape implies that it is intended to be used to give cancer patients hope.

49:13Copy video clip URL “Yes Means Yes, No Means No” by Carol Leigh and Dee Russell. A short piece about a romantic night turned sour when the man tries to take advantage of his date.

57:00Copy video clip URL End of tape.