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Blood and Guts in High School

Laura Parnes

2007, 50:27 minutes, colour

tapecode 528.14

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Blood and Guts in High School features actress Stephanie Vella in a series of video installations that re-imagine punk-feminist icon Kathy Acker's book of the same title. The book received noteriety from 1978-1982 during the rise of Reagan republicanism and the emergence of punk rock. In Parnes' interpretation, each… ⊕

County Down

Laura Parnes

2012, 69:08 minutes, colour

tapecode 528.16

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County Down is a cross-platform, episodic, digital film exploring an epidemic of psychosis among the adults in a gated community that coincides with a teenage girl’s invention of a designer drug. Mirroring rave culture and the unbridled optimism around technology during the 1990s, County Down presents a society so… ⊕

Heidi 2 (The Unauthorized Sequel)

Laura Parnes, Sue de Beer

2000, 30:00 minutes, colour

tapecode 528.12

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Heidi 2, produced in collaboration with Sue de Beer, is a feminist revision of Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy's 1992 video, Heidi. This intentionally low-end production illustrates the way B-movie aesthetics can be employed ironically to comment on cultural depravity. This mother/daughter story reclaims patriarchal abjection… ⊕

Hollywood Inferno (Episode One)

Laura Parnes

2001, 40:00 minutes, colour

tapecode 528.13

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Set in the nightmarish world of suburbia, Dante is now an eighteen-year-old girl named Sandy (played by Alissa Bennett) who is a part-time mascot and candy store clerk. Virgil is a screenwriter. This modern day hell comprised of fluorescent lighting, saccharine soaked easy listening music and vicarious spectatorship – is… ⊕

Ladies, There's a Space You Can't Go

Laura Parnes

1995, 06:00 minutes, colour

tapecode 528.05

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The video Ladies, There is a Space You Can't Go is a both a deconstruction and a distortion of an episode of Sally Jesse Raphael titled My Daughter Dresses Like A Hooker. Sampled audience statements and a driving dance beat merge with distorted talk show participants to form a self-mutilating music video. The daughters… ⊕

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