Animal Charm: Golden Digest
Animal Charm: Golden Digest

Movie·1996·1h 26m

Animal Charm: Golden Digest

Country

United States of America

Language

English

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// overview

The Story

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.

Editor

Jim Fetterley

Themes

collage

Audience Score

50%

4 votes

Skip18%
Timepass41%
Go for it30%
Perfection11%

Where to watch

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// cast

Cast

Jimmy Smits

Jimmy Smits

Himself (Archival Footage)

Gordon Lightfoot

Gordon Lightfoot

Himself (archival footage)

// crew

Crew

Rich Bott

Director, Writer

Jim Fetterley

Writer, Editor, Director

Rich Bott

Editor

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