Michael Robinson (b.1981) is a film and video artist whose work explores the joys and dangers of mediated experience, riding the fine lines between humor and terror, nostalgia and contempt, ecstasy and hysteria.
Informed by an underlying sense of anxiety and anguish, Michael Robinson's Polycephaly in D nestles fragments of narrative within a collage of sound, image, and text that oscillates between the elegant and the discordant. ...
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A password-protected love affair, a little vapor on Venus, and a horse with no name ride out in search of a better world. Against the mounting darkness, a willing abduction offers a stab at tomorrow. ...
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Culled from segments of the Miss USA pageants of the late 1980s, Robinson's silent two-channel video, 'Desert States (You Win Again)', reduces and refracts the source's highly-gendered pageantry to its rawest form of ceremonial spectacle. ...
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A modern prophet's visions of mythical destruction and transformation are recounted across a turbulent geometric ceremony of rising curtains, swirling set pieces and unveiled idols from music television's past. Together, these parallel cults of revelation ...
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The cabin is on fire! Krystle can't stop crying, Alexis won't stop drinking, and the fabric of existence hangs in the balance, again and again and again. ...
Watch NowIn the near future, amidst the aftermath of civil war, a band of female prisoners ambles across an otherwordly coastal exile, supervised and sorted by a group of idle soldiers. Rummaging, stuttering, and smashing through the leftovers of American culture, ...
Watch NowThis is the new choreography of devotion, via the vlog of southern nightmares. This is the light that never goes out. This is the line describing your mom. ...
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Tired of underworld and overworld alike, Isis escorts her favorite son on their final curtain call down the Nile, leaving a neon wake of shattered tombs and sparkling sarcophagi. ...
Watch NowA dark wave of exile, incest, and magic burns across the tropics, forging a knotted trail into the black hole. Three star-crossed siblings wander in search of one another as a storm of purple prose and easy listening slowly engulfs them. ...
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Made for the 2009 PDX Film Festival "Karaoke Throwdown" in Portland, OR. ...
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Plagued by blindness, sloth, and devotion, a troubled scene from Little House On The Prairie offers itself up to karaoke exorcism. ...
Watch NowA charred visitation with an icy language of control: "there is no room for love". Splinters of Nordic fairy tales and ecological disaster films are ground down into a prism of contradictions in this hopeful container for hopelessness. ...
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A very special episode of television's Full House devours itself from the inside out, excavating a hypnotic nightmare of a culture lost at sea. Tropes of video art and family entertainment face off in a luminous orgy neither can survive. ...
Watch NowShaping a concurrently indulgent and skeptical experience of the beautiful, the film draws an uneasy balance between the romantic and the horrid. A Frank O'Hara monologue (from a play of the same title) attempts to undercut the sincerity of the landscape, ...
Watch NowAn ill wind is transmitting through the lonely night, spreading deception and myth along its murky path, singing the dangers of the mediated spirit. ...
Watch NowViewed at its seams, a National Geographic slideshow from the 1960s and '70s deforms into a bright white distress signal. ...
Watch NowCommissioned by Matador Records for the release of Interpol's 2004 LP "Antics", and presented at "Interpol Spaces" gallery events in London (The Ragged School), Berlin (Galerie Tristesse), Paris (Agnès B. Gallery), New York (199 Lafayette Street) and Los ...
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A collection of discarded souls, rescued from the trash of a college darkroom. ...
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"Designed as a get well card, this experimental film was completed just two months before leukemia took my father's life. Through use of the optical printer I pull him back to an easier time. ...
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