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Selected Works: Chip Lord

Chip Lord

1984 00:27:39 United States English Color Mono 4:3
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This compilation collects seven short works made between 1977 and 1984.

The Willie Walker Show, Bi-Coastal, and The Executive Air Traveler deal with the construction of identity by adapting genre conventions of television to create a self-portrait of the artist.

Get Ready to March is a PSA that critiques Reagan's NEA cuts.

Abscam (Framed), made with Skip Blumberg, presents the FBI sting operation known as "Abscam", mixing FBI surveillance footage of Congressman Michael "Ozzie" Meyers with footage shot by Lord at the Motel where the original sting occurred.

Three Drugs, subtitled “Abused by Americans,” offers parodic commentary on American obsessions with caffeine, nicotine, and gasoline.

Auto Fire Life is a TV News collage arranged by insurance categories and set to music by The Residents.

This title is also available on Chip Lord Videoworks: Volume 1.

Chip Lord has worked with video since 1971, first as a partner in the alternative media collective Ant Farm, and since 1978 as an independent artist/producer. With Ant Farm, he produced and co-directed the video art classics Media Burn and The Eternal Frame. His early work draws on documentary conventions, but during the '80s he moved toward experimental narrative with Easy Living, Ballplayer, and his first feature-length tape, Motorist. His more recent works return to non-fiction with the video essay The Aroma of Enchantment (1992), and Awakening from the 20th Century (1999). He produces video installations as well as single-channel tapes, and he is a Professor in the Department of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz.