Video Catalogue
2007, 50:27 minutes, colour
tapecode 528.14
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 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, 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… ⊕
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… ⊕
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… ⊕




