Animal Charm: Golden Digest

Animal Charm: Golden Digest

1996
1h 26m
5.0

5.0/10

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Overview

Animal Charm makes videos from other people's videos. By compositing TV and reducing it to a kind of tic-ridden babble, they force television to not make sense. While this disruption is playful, it also reveals an overall 'essence' of mass culture that would not be apprehended otherwise. Videos such as Stuffing, Ashley, and Lightfoot Fever upset the hypnotic spectacle of TV viewing, revealing how advertising creates anxiety, how culture constructs "nature" and how conventional morality is dictated through seemingly neutral images. By forcing television to convulse like a raving lunatic, we might finally hear what it is actually saying.

Status: Released

Language: EN

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Production Information

Production Countries
United States of America
Spoken Languages
English

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Quick Facts

Release Date January 1, 1996
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt1606593
Website Visit Site

Cast

Jimmy Smits
Jimmy Smits

Himself (Archival Footage)

Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Lightfoot

Himself (archival footage)

Key Crew

Rich Bott
Director
Jim Fetterley
Writer
Jim Fetterley
Director
Rich Bott
Writer