Animal Charm: Golden Digest

Overview

Animal Charm makes videos from other people's videos. By compositing TV and reducing it to a kind of tic-ridden babble, they force television to not make sense. While this disruption is playful, it also reveals an overall 'essence' of mass culture that would not be apprehended otherwise. Videos such as Stuffing, Ashley, and Lightfoot Fever upset the hypnotic spectacle of TV viewing, revealing how advertising creates anxiety, how culture constructs ""nature"" and how conventional morality is dictated through seemingly neutral images. By forcing television to convulse like a raving lunatic, we might finally hear what it is actually saying.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 1, 1996

Original language

English

Spoken languages

English

Countries

United States of America

Cast

Gordon Lightfoot,Jimmy Smits

Director

Rich Bott,Jim Fetterley

Writer

Rich Bott,Jim Fetterley

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

Homepage

Official site

IMDb

tt1606593