I honestly couldn’t stop chuckling to myself all day yesterday. I woke up in the morning to an email informing me that my short, a 2-minute remix video entitled “They Call Me Pubefinger” is to be included in this year’s Coney Island Film Festival – September 23-25, 2011. I guess the reason I find this so amusing is a) It’s about my pubefinger (yes, I have pubic hair on my finger… watch the video if you want to know why) which is just inherently funny, and b) the film is less a “film” and more an experiment in seeing how efficiently I could tell a story in under 2 minutes by piecing together pop culture references – of which there are over 30.
Anyway, I’m sure I’ll go out to see it on a big(ger) screen, and I hear that all accepted “filmmakers” (chortle, snicker..) get free tickets to the Wonder Wheel and bumper cars. And who knows, maybe there will be a bidding war for the theatrical release!
References:
Barbie Dolls, Love Story, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, KC & The Sunshine Band, Jaws, Queen (the band), Barry Manilow, Pong, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Google, Woody Woodpecker, Altered States, True Red, Run Lola Run, The Shining, Dead Alive, The Six Million Dollar Man, ET, The Elephant Man, One Got Fat, The Wolfman, Age of Turbulance, An American Werewolf in London, Physical Aspects of Puberty, Olga’s House of Shame, Carrie, 70′s Bic Commercial, 60′s Wilkinson Sword Commercial, Frankenstein, La Belle et La Bete.
This is repost from my main blog, but completely relevant to media studies so I’m posting it here as well.
Some of you may have heard me complaining lately that I want to attend SXSW this year, but cannot for a variety of reasons – mostly limited funds. Well, Open Video Alliance is holding a contest for a 60-second video, expressing “what open video means to you.” My solution was to juxtapose media giants (Murdoch, Valenti) to Cookie Monster learning one of the first things we are taught about as kids: sharing. As Adi at OVA said, “it’s very meta” which I think is GOOD if you want to try to make an all encompassing statement in less than a minute. I actually borrowed the idea from my friend Elisa Kreisinger who suggested I remix the work of the other contestants (uber meta). Ultimately, I felt the narrative was better served if I were able to use recognizable icons rather than simply snips of other underground filmmakers, although I did use a few. I used a CC licensed audio tack plus a number of the other contestants’ videos as sources for the remix. Attributions are below the video. Enjoy.
Music by Briareus.
Featuring source material from thesingingnerd, David Köhlmeier, papyromancer, Qasim Virjee, Josh Levy and MissMadDawg.
This is a short, 9-minute microdocumentary that I made last spring for my Art/Core class at the New School. The basic thesis is that cinema – underground films from the 60′s and 70′s, as well as mainstream cinema – has had an effect on the kinds of work contemporary performance artists in NYC today are producing. It consists of interviews with 3 artists: Reverend Jen Miller, Robert Prichard, and Velocity Chyalld.
There is also an accompanying short paper, which you can read below if you wish.
Me: Tom Tenney: producer, performer, artist, digital media professional, student, and director of the annual RE/Mixed Media Festival in Brooklyn. Yeah, I wear a lot of hats, and spend a lot of time thinking about the complex relationships between art, culture, media, consciousness, education… I have a rich and varied (albeit somewhat checkered) past in the underground performance scene, and currently play around a lot with sound. Read more...
Sound
We Are All Underground
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Scream Symphony #1
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Off the Grid
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I Didn't Know That
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Reunion
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Great Expectations
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I honestly couldn’t stop chuckling to myself all day yesterday. I woke up in the morning to an email informing me that my short, a 2-minute remix video entitled “They Call Me Pubefinger” is to be included in this year’s Coney Island Film Festival – September 23-25, 2011. I guess the reason I find this so amusing is a) It’s about my pubefinger (yes, I have pubic hair on my finger… watch the video if you want to know why) which is just inherently funny, and b) the film is less a “film” and more an experiment in seeing how efficiently I could tell a story in under 2 minutes by piecing together pop culture references – of which there are over 30.
