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I like to use videos to tell mini-stories, usually in a linear fashion but with bits of (low-rent) technological distraction here & there. All my videos generally center around my mascots/children Chicken & Monkey (C&M) as I think they're more fun to watch than real people. Chicken & Monkey like to figure out our big world and are total whores for the camera. Many of these films are projected during my performances (usually with Chicken & Monkey also live on stage trying to figure out where they are). A majority of the films are shot overseas because they love to travel and like to see new things. They love the little things that a lot of people ignore; things in the public stream that humans are used to but inspire fascination for C&M. All the musical scores in the films are by Massaccesi (John Fanning/myself).
C&M haben Spass am Schlossberg (C&M Have Fun on Schlossberg)
02:06, 2005
C&M explore the mountain enclave of Schlossberg, which overlooks the city of Graz, Austria (one of our favourite cities).
02:06, 2005
C&M explore the mountain enclave of Schlossberg, which overlooks the city of Graz, Austria (one of our favourite cities).
C&M Live in a Zoo
03:48, 2003/4
C&M's first video finds them at various zoos in New England (plus a few stills from a trip to the zoo in Budapest, Hungary). They make lots of new friends and a few enemies in the process.
03:48, 2003/4
C&M's first video finds them at various zoos in New England (plus a few stills from a trip to the zoo in Budapest, Hungary). They make lots of new friends and a few enemies in the process.
Dr. Monkey: A Virgem e o Macaco (Dr. Monkey: A Virgin and the Monkey) 02:08, 2004
C&M make a tribute video for Brazilian genius director Zé do Caixão (Coffin Joe), Chicken plays a virgin (a big stretch) and Monkey is the evil doctor! Full of fabulous cheap tricks!
C&M make a tribute video for Brazilian genius director Zé do Caixão (Coffin Joe), Chicken plays a virgin (a big stretch) and Monkey is the evil doctor! Full of fabulous cheap tricks!
C&M in Compuland
06:01, 2005/6
A short film with a plot! C&M find a time machine and travel to Compuland, a wasteland ruled by an evil chicken!! This is the only movie with actual text for C&M, they decided they wanted to only use international symbols & suggestion.
06:01, 2005/6
A short film with a plot! C&M find a time machine and travel to Compuland, a wasteland ruled by an evil chicken!! This is the only movie with actual text for C&M, they decided they wanted to only use international symbols & suggestion.
C&M Europa
15:54, 2006
C&M's longest video ever! The kids romp around the continent raiding refrigerators, doing laundry, playing with stuff they find and figuring out what's wrong with people while doing a tour in 2006 with Massaccesi.
15:54, 2006
C&M's longest video ever! The kids romp around the continent raiding refrigerators, doing laundry, playing with stuff they find and figuring out what's wrong with people while doing a tour in 2006 with Massaccesi.
C&M und der Durian (C&M and the Durian)
04:04, 2007
Made for Interpenetration Festival, Graz, Austria, which in 2007 had the theme of 'Durians'. C&M found a durian and tried to figure out how to open it up, with mixed results.
04:04, 2007
Made for Interpenetration Festival, Graz, Austria, which in 2007 had the theme of 'Durians'. C&M found a durian and tried to figure out how to open it up, with mixed results.
C&M Leben in Einem Zoo (C&M Live in a Zoo)
03:33, 2006
C&M visit their incarcerated animal friends at the zoo in Berlin, Germany!
03:33, 2006
C&M visit their incarcerated animal friends at the zoo in Berlin, Germany!
Chicken: Business Lady / Huhn: Geschäftsfrau / Csirke: Üzletasszony
03:40, 2009
Shot in Hungary & Austria. Chicken is a successful business lady who is denied a promotion which she suspects is because she's a woman. Fed up, she decides to escape to Austria with Monkey, her assistant. However, on the train to Austria Chicken enters a psychedelic realm of the unknown!
03:40, 2009
Shot in Hungary & Austria. Chicken is a successful business lady who is denied a promotion which she suspects is because she's a woman. Fed up, she decides to escape to Austria with Monkey, her assistant. However, on the train to Austria Chicken enters a psychedelic realm of the unknown!
C&M: Hole Pigs / C&M: Loch Schweine
03:15, 2009
Shot in Graz, Austria. The second of the mysterious pigs series, where Chicken is plagued with finding little pigs in strange places and then getting Monkey involved. In this one, the pigs appear and disappear and then a crazy crocodile comes to eat one of the piggies!
03:15, 2009
Shot in Graz, Austria. The second of the mysterious pigs series, where Chicken is plagued with finding little pigs in strange places and then getting Monkey involved. In this one, the pigs appear and disappear and then a crazy crocodile comes to eat one of the piggies!
C&M Toilet Pigs / C&M Toiletten Schweine
02:24, 2009
Shot in Graz, Austria. The first of 2 scandalously titled C&M films which end up being totally innocent encounters with little piggies that show up in strange places. This film specifically centers on the oddity of the shelf-toilet, which is common in Austria but always a mystery especially to Americans.
02:24, 2009
Shot in Graz, Austria. The first of 2 scandalously titled C&M films which end up being totally innocent encounters with little piggies that show up in strange places. This film specifically centers on the oddity of the shelf-toilet, which is common in Austria but always a mystery especially to Americans.