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.
Rich Bott
Director, Writer
Jim Fetterley
Writer, Director
Jimmy Smits
Himself (Archival Footage)
Gordon Lightfoot
Himself (archival footage)
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert83%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Looking for Richard68%
I Am Heath Ledger74%
Girl Rising70%
This Is It73%
Katy Perry: Part of Me71%
Being James Bond77%
For the Love of Spock73%
My Mom Jayne80%
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home67%
Stop Making Sense83%
Earth: One Amazing Day77%
Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear70%
Love, Marilyn66%
Adele One Night Only78%
Justin Bieber's Believe69%
Kedi75%
Cuadecuc, vampir61%
Baraka82%
