After wading through the ‘funniest home video genre of youtube, it is a pleasure to be directed toward some real gems; like this doco called ‘Guns’ by Negativeland (thanks to Andrew G for this link).
Guns: by Negativeland and Peter Neville
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Thanks for the comment/compliment! This video will be in this years’ 13th Annual Chicago Underground Film Festival on Aug. 18th 2006 at 9:45pm at the Music Box theater in Chicago. Also, Negativland will include it on a video compilation on DVD sometime this winter! Thanks again!
Peter Neville
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yes, a gem right out of the collective unconscious – i say unconscious as the film pleasantly lets me know what has become of these Saturday afternoons in front of the box with father, how they have become layered with all manner of typically alarming unconscious innuendo – i didn’t realise before that film could represent like this, its structure, putting the trivial to heavy use (I spare the Freudian and Jungian associations for private reflection, relieved but by knowing this is “darkness”, and dark humour, shared) – besides that, the John-Michael-Houson in me would like to express warped appreciation for Billy Mummy, of Lost-In-Space fame, in something of a title role in this
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