Film

Animal Charm: Golden Digest

1996 · 1h 26m · Documentary

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.

Jimmy Smits

Himself (Archival Footage)

Gordon Lightfoot

Himself (archival footage)

• Rich BottDirector · Writer
• Jim FetterleyWriter · Editor · Director
• Rich BottEditor

Animal Charm's Golden Digest

Release date

January 1, 1996

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 26m

Rated

NR

Genres

Documentary

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