Video

Byron Black N' Blue-Blind

1985, 17:00 minutes, colour, English

TAPECODE 9999.105

Canadian video artist and performer Byron Black has been doing comic pantomimes of the comic numbers of Spike Jones since 1946, when as a child of six he stood in front of a juke box in an officers' club in Germany and amused drunks. He is now a 46-year-old bald-headed unemployed genius and still doing these same numbers, but with a powerful technological advantage: through the electronic sorcery of "soft chromakey" he is able to ooze into two personae, and "play with himself" as he pantomimes two roles at the same time.

L'artiste et "performer" Byron Black imite les numéros comiques de Spike Jones dequis 1946. Dès l'âge de six ans, il amusait les ivrognes dans un club d'officiers en Allemagne. À 47 ans, il se présente comme un vieux chauve au génie inexploité qui continue de faire ses numéros mais avec un avantage technologique puissant: la sorcellerie électronique du "soft chromakey." Il prévient les spectateurs trop sensibles que ce vidéo pourrait être, et est selon lui, une des choses les plus drôles qu'on n'a jamais vue de notre mortelle existence ...

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