1988, U-Matic, b&w, sound, 23:00 min
- realized by:
- Leslie Thornton
- notes:
- See Peggy and Fred in Hell. Complete cycle.
Produced in mono.
- available copies:
- Video Data Bank:
- video, sound
- available for rent
- Light Cone:
- U-Matic, NTSC, sound
- available for rent
- synopsis: Video Data Bank, Chicago
- Here, Peggy and Fred meet up with Peter the Penguin, to once again make their way through the fragmentary remains of 20th-century American culture. They fashion a tumultuous, arbitrary world that teeters dangerously on the edge of nonsense and oblivion. The makings are familiar-technologies, accoutrements and stories of our culture, leveled against an endless and disorderly horizon. As a commentary on the state of cultural messages and meaning, Thornton's work outlines a "poetics of dystopia" that has all the ambience of a bomb shelter preserving random cultural elements for future generations.
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