While AVA has been silent lately, some of us on the road, some writing for forthcoming projects (and yet others continuing to create video art at a pace I’m still trying to catch up with), it sucks that a reason for a new writing is yet another RIP… This time it’s Amos Vogel, who sort [...]
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Amos Vogel – Subversive Art Cinema’s Author and Curator Passes On
Posted: April 30, 2012 in UncategorizedTags: amos vogel, film as a subversive art form, subversive cinema
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In Memory of Mike Kelley. A Call to Arms for All Absurdists.
Posted: February 2, 2012 in Essays, UncategorizedTags: mike kelley
B-Sides – “ELIENATION and ZED ARCHIE” – (The Absurdist’s Side Projects)
Posted: January 11, 2012 in Eli Elliott, UncategorizedTags: b-sides, eli elliott, elienation, zed archie
still from “RE: Reply To zenarcher’s “Challenge Met” Video” by Zed Archie This is how the Absurdist B Sides end up being created. They are works that have spilled over the sides and onto new surfaces, where a new audience resides. An audience which wouldn’t have been reached otherwise. This new “audience” is forced, and [...]
B-SIDES (The Absurdist’s Side Projects) – “DICK WHITE SPIRIT CHANNELER”
Posted: January 8, 2012 in American Films, Collapse, Essays, UncategorizedTags: american films, b-sides, collapse, dick white
still from “Epti Spirit Channeling 2″ by Dick White Creative impulsion is a common thread that The Absurdists featured on AVA all have in common. It’s what drives them to continually pump out massive amounts of work usually unseen in the practice of “regular” artists. But it is also what leads many to go overboard; [...]
LOVE FLOATS MY BOAT – A 2012 Re-Edit From Collapse
Posted: January 2, 2012 in American Films, Collapse, UncategorizedTags: american films, collapse, collapse theater
What scares the shit out of me is that I know a Jerry Jeffers who fits our protagonist’s profile. He’s on SSI, takes psychotropic meds and always has a “business” dealio to offer. Gadzooks you fucks, get out of my head! – clvngodess COLLAPSE Theater (American Films) continues to churn out new work, while performing [...]
“TCN – The Commercial Network” – a short film by Collapse Theater
Posted: December 9, 2011 in American Films, UncategorizedAVA’s own American Films have taken their act to the stage in the form of theater, operating under the moniker “COLLAPSE THEATER”. Imagine their short films in stage play form, but much more tightly written and with a slew of additional actors, many seemingly itching to dive into the Absurdist material that Amercian Films have [...]
Celebrating his 100th YouTubian video art upload, with a new masterpiece (which could possibly turn the celebration into a suspension of his entire YouTube channel), absurdist Eli Elliott presents SUMMER POLITIKO, “a political thriller which hoiks back up the most important politiko events of the previous summer, with brief homage to a summer years prior, [...]
A great new interview from the Netherlands featuring Nick Zedd whose work is showing at the BUT Film Festival.
Japanese Absurdist Video Art Performance
Posted: September 8, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: japan, Sarraceniaalata
A penis in the shape of Japan attacks a room full of clutter. More from this artist “Sarraceniaalata” :
