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An unreliable narrator details how to deliver people in the age of surveillance from within and without, a how-to for lateral minds, a hippie family sitcommune set to a bootleg of Peter Hutton's Florence, a drearily rousing theme song as gps-to-mp3 directions out to the country.


With Henry Thomas, Vic Mizzy and Peter Hutton


Originally made for RULES, TOOLS AND FOOLS, an exhibition drawing on the legacy of the Whole Earth Catalog at Spudnik Chicago in 2016. WInner of the Made in Chicago award at the 2017 Chicago Underground Film Festival.


"I think my favorite CUFF memory with this video took place during a pre-festival party in Chicago. An eager young person was excited that I was a filmmaker (me too) and asked a lot of questions: how did I make the film? how did I secure funding? what kind of camera did I use? my responses felt disappointing,if liberating in my mind. I used my computer and a degraded bootleg of my old teacher's work. it cost nothing to make beyond my [expensive] education, and no cameras were harmed or even used in the making of the piece. At its best, this was hopefully advocacy for a kind of cinema povera to a young enthusiast, at worst, a confusing interaction with a goofball (itself not so bad)." - Jesse Malmed

  • Year
    2016
  • Runtime
    0:13:01
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States
  • Filmmaker
    Jesse Malmed