Commissioned for The Colin Campbell Sessions by Lisa Steele at Vtape, one of a half dozen shorts made in tribute to one of our video dads. Colin had died suddenly and unexpectedly of colon cancer in 2001, but not before lending grace to more than fourty low-tech wonders of cross-dressing satire. An excerpt from his first movie, Sackville, I’m Yours (made on the Sackville football’s team portable black-and-white video deck) provides a closing note in Hoolboom’s video grieving.
“One of the tribute videos for the late artist Colin Campbell, it continues Hoolboom’s expert reworking of pictures from the whole history of cinema. A river of stolen images from the most ancient, rusted celluloid, to the glossiest Hollywood scenes paints a picture of anxiety. Meanwhile, text names the movie theatre as ‘the place where we watch death at work.’ When a young Colin Campbell finally shows up in an old video clip and speaks, it’s nothing short of spectacular.” Cameron Bailey, NOW Magazine
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Critical Writing
by . Toronto: Vtape, 2003.