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Something hybrid and drifting, nihilist and utopian in patches, with my monotone voice as intro to the forest-realm, trailed by Danika Stegeman, Karina Bush, Sara Matson, Chik Chun Ying Joanna, Ami J. Sanghvi, A.A. De Levine and Madelaine Culver as main body text/horror.

This is the second ‘Kollontai’ piece I’ve produced recently, and probably the best video I’ve done so far in my non-career as re-mixer of old film clips. Meaning and metaphysics potentially all over the place. Strict- symbolic and phenomenological. Who IS that walking TV in the cartoon forest?? Does IT matter?

Huge thanks to the above artists/writers for providing voice recordings that have basically made this the best video I’ve done so far.

And posthumous thanks to Kathy Acker and Jane Arden for their voices too.

You should definitely watch this, at least the first 15 minutes, cos it is frankly the
BEST
VIDEO
I’VE
DONE
SO
FAR
FULL
STOP
BAR
NONE
ETC.

Films/music used:

Doomed Megalopolis [1995]
Super Metroid [item room theme]
The Other Side of the Underneath [1972]
Cat People [1942]
Lake of Dracula [1971]
Viridiana [1961]
Goodbye, Dragon Inn [2003]
Willo the Wisp [1981]
The Vampire Doll [1970]
The Boxer’s Omen [1983]
Chiostro // Sandro Brugnolini
Belladonna of Sadness OST
Possession [subway scene audio]
The Flower of Carnage // Meiko Kaji
Kathy Acker [interview 1989]
Cherry 2000 [1987]
Barbara the Fair with the Silken Hair [1970]
Per Aspera Ad Astra [1981]
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders [1970]
After Blue [2021]
Lady Terminator [1988]
Bride of Re-Animator [1990]
Daughters of Darkness [1971]
She Killed in Ecstasy [1971]
The Spider Labyrinth [1988]
The Night of the Hunter [1955]
Lady Snowblood [1973]
Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam [1962]