Media Releases
Idiot Machine has released three DVDs: Gavin Kroeber: Short Video Works, Drunk, and the visual album Permanent Side-Project.
The older releases can be ordered directly from IM, see bottom of page for details. Permanent Side-Project will be available, for free, in early 2005. Monitor the website or get on the mailing list for more info.
Gavin Kroeber: Short Video Works
Oddities and retardations hastily created for and from Idiot Machine's open-mics, street parties and performances; these shorts are a retrospective of two years artistically rationalized stupidity and a first glimpse of a cinematic vision only now taking shape, stretching to connect absurdism, hallucinatory surreality and real-world documentary. This collection includes:
The Tom Waits Re-Edit of "How to Escape", an absurdly dark look at the daily life of two strange-headed automaton-things.
The lush anatomical video mix from the pre-show for IM's 2003 SF Fringe Festival production.
Rare performance footage of "Multi-media Clowning" from its premier at the American Circus Festival.
"Fatboy America", a found-footage montage of patriotic dancing kids, railroad workers and Uncle Sam himself, set to music by Fatboy Slim.
The long cut of "Barbarian Raiding Party", a street event that involved a lot of faux fur.
Check out some still images.
Drunk
A collection of very early video work from Idiot Machine co-founder Gavin Kroeber, including the promo reel from Idiot Machine's first incarnation as an undergraduate thesis production, the Fountainhead spoof and "Stupidist Art Manifesto" Futurists from the Future, and (of course) the "Real-Life Docu-Drama" that is Drunk - a documentary of one college student's hilarious first brush with alcohol... on his 21st birthday. It's worth the effort just for the infamous Aerosmith cross fade. Check out some still images.
How to Order:
Both DVDs are available at $10 a pop (plus s&h)... or possibly just for a convincing e-mail explaining why you should be sent a copy for free. As of Thanksgiving, 2004 we have not yet taken the time to set up a PayPal account, so in the meantime all orders and begging e-mails should be sent to:
...and we'll get right back to you! Well, we're assuming there will be several kagillion orders in the first few days after this gets posted, but we'll do our best to sort through them all. Thanks y'all.