David Obermeyer

Portraits of Chuck’s cats and friends, as well as a self-portrait.

In 1978, Northwestern University film professor Dana Hodgdon created an experimental film based on a phonetic alphabet. He recruited 45 students and faculty members to join him in speaking a single phoneme, which he filmed on 16mm color film. Each phoneme had an example that was an ideological loaded term: revolution, theory, language, Marx, Brecht, and so on. Then, using an optical printer, he excerpted the phonemes and edited them into words and sentences.

While making a hot dog in a restaurant, David Obermeyer reflects on class and labor.

John talks about his dog Martha, who does frisbee competitions. Film footage of the dog leaping for the frisbee. Interview with John about how they got started in this activity. Footage of the two doing a show at Comiskey Park.

John talks about his dog Martha, who does frisbee competitions. Film footage of the dog leaping for the frisbee. Interview with John about how they got started in this activity. Footage of the two doing a show at Comiskey Park.