Preston Spurlock

An animated feature film with a soundtrack made from recycled junk shop tapes.

“Man, all the years I lived and just thought whatever I felt was IT! I did what I felt! I said what I wanted! I acted how I wanted! I treated people however I wanted! If somebody made me mad, and I felt like staying mad, I stayed mad”

Video by Preston Spurlock

A longform video mashup created by multimedia artist Preston Spurlock. Culled from scores of VHS tapes, MRC is an 85-minute bombast of talk shows, sitcoms, commercials, instructional videos, and pure analog glitch. Images aggressively jockey for foremost position in the viewer’s mind. Jingles, one-liners, purple prose weave in and out of inadvertent musicality, forming a clattering soundtrack. Smash edits, smeary abstractions, and overlays create subliminal threads between lust and sensitivity, sex and death, steak and lobster, Steve Urkel and nuclear holocaust. Visual diamonds picked and arranged out of a grungy heap of cultural detritus. A museum of microseconds. Dots on a timeline. Connect them as you see fit.

By Preston Spurlock, 2018.

Morley Safer confronts Modern Art tonight on 60 Minutes.

An animated feature film with a soundtrack made from recycled junk shop tapes.

“Man, all the years I lived and just thought whatever I felt was IT! I did what I felt! I said what I wanted! I acted how I wanted! I treated people however I wanted! If somebody made me mad, and I felt like staying mad, I stayed mad”

Video by Preston Spurlock

A longform video mashup created by multimedia artist Preston Spurlock. Culled from scores of VHS tapes, MRC is an 85-minute bombast of talk shows, sitcoms, commercials, instructional videos, and pure analog glitch. Images aggressively jockey for foremost position in the viewer’s mind. Jingles, one-liners, purple prose weave in and out of inadvertent musicality, forming a clattering soundtrack. Smash edits, smeary abstractions, and overlays create subliminal threads between lust and sensitivity, sex and death, steak and lobster, Steve Urkel and nuclear holocaust. Visual diamonds picked and arranged out of a grungy heap of cultural detritus. A museum of microseconds. Dots on a timeline. Connect them as you see fit.

By Preston Spurlock, 2018.

Morley Safer confronts Modern Art tonight on 60 Minutes.