liquid television
4 movies and shows
Angry Cabaret
Sat, 01 Jan 1994
Club owners Angry and Cabaret have to scrounge up the money for rent fast, or risk having their business shut down.
The Nightwatchman
Fri, 01 Jan 1993
A nightwatchman who works at a pesticide plant manipulates chemicals (of which he treats a strange garden of marrow-like vines in his apartment) , causing evolution to accelerate, in this short illustrating the harmful effects of human interference with nature.
Invisible Hands
Sun, 02 Jun 1991
Originally aired on MTV’s Liquid Television and based on Sala’s first self-published comic, Invisible Hands is an animated six-part serial about a turban-clad sleuth who solves cases.
Silent Passability (Ride to the Countryside)
Fri, 01 Aug 1997
Deemed "too ambient for broadcast" by MTV's AMP, Thaemlitz' first video "Silent Passability (Ride to the Countryside)" contrasts cinematic footage from drag performances in upstate New York with highly processed digital audio from his CD "Couture Cosmetique" (US: Caipirinha/Japan: Daisyworld, 1997). Thaemlitz is known for his fusion of computer synthesis techniques with non-essentialist transgenderism as two methodoligies which appropriate and critically recontextualize cultural signifiers, whether they be audio sources or gender constructs. The audio for "Silent Passability" deals with fears of violence while travelling in 'passable' drag between safe zones, and Thaemlitz' unsettling compulsion to remain silent in such circumstances so as to avoid confrontation. Antithetically beatific images from the transgendered stage question posturing as a means for alieviating and/or concealing such oppressive circumstances.