Film

Tar Pits Film

2006 · 3m

Tar pits form as petroleum seeps to the surface through fissures in the Earth’s crust, leaving viscous asphalt pools. To make Tar Pits Film, Jennifer West threw a strip of film into the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, still-bubbling asphalt pools which have seeped from the ground for tens of thousands of years. The film was then ridden over hot asphalt by a motorcycle and drenched in other substances including thick mayonnaise and body lotion.

• Jennifer WestDirector

Release date

January 1, 2006

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

3m

• 

  Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights

  1994

• 

  Christmas in the Clouds

  2001

• 

  Deliver Us from Evil

  2006

• 

  Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas

  2004

• 

  Shrek the Halls

  2007

• 

  The Snowman

  1982

• 

  Hollywood Lucifer

  2014

• 

  Silver Forest

  2011

• 

  The Land of Steady Habits

  2018

• 

  Since Otar Left

  2003

• 

  Japanese Story

  2003

• 

  Volcanoes of the Deep Sea

  2003