Capsule by Fred Camper
From the Chicago Reader
June 18, 2004
Recommended

The audio is as important as the imagery in most of these 12 videos. Neil
Ira Needleman's My First Film Noir is image free--a fanciful noirish plot
unfolds in on-screen text to a sonic collage of overheated movie music. A
percussive, echo-laden sound track sets the tone for the dense
superimpositions of Tossy Timmy's Bobby's Friends, which includes the
piercing, uncanny eyes of a boy's dolls. Doug Lussenhop's Plastic Crimewave
Sound: Grade Ceased (2003) is an admirably intense, even assaultive, music
video. Of particular interest are three music videos from Baghdad: in one
predating the invasion a soldier appears to rap Saddam's praises in Arabic
while others wave their guns; in a more recent one Saddam is made to sing "I
know the devil is by my side." The program includes live performances by
several bands. 68 min.

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