Lovely Academic Slaughter Houses
Scene from "Lovely Academic Slaughter Houses"
Inside the card catalogue of the University library, Greek boys and pin-up girls gambol on the Acropolis. Meanwhile, out in the real world, parfait desserts and unruly children are floating by in uncontrollable clouds of bubbles.
Based on a fully improvised text, this video meditates on how the boxlike conceptual thinking of academia attempts to grapple with sexuality, gender, culture, and the unclassifiably bubblelike flow of reality. Multiple layers of meticulously crafted imagery help the viewer to make sense of the complex text and music.
"Lovely Academic Slaughter Houses" premiered at the 2005 Putnam County Film and Video Festival where it won "Best of Fest: Experimental".
