On the Problem of the Autonomy of Art in Bourgeois Society, or... Splice (1986)

The Tilted X

198615m
Short

Wearing a professorial suit (without pants), poised at a podium (with large magnifying screen), Professor Al Razutis proceeds to "instruct" with a dildo pointer, reads prepared lecture text using a voice synthesizer (writings based on Frederick Jameson, Arthur Kroker, Gilles Deleuze, Walter Benjamin and others) while a series of slides of "famous modernist paintings" from the US, Canada, and Europe are projected with superimposed projected 16mm film cross-hair - the tilted X.

Runtime
15m
Released
1986

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Release year: 1986

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Wearing a professorial suit (without pants), poised at a podium (with large magnifying screen), Professor Al Razutis proceeds to "instruct" with a dildo pointer, reads prepared lecture text using a voice synthesizer (writings based on Frederick Jameson, Arthur Kroker, Gilles Deleuze, Walter Benjamin and others) while a series of slides of "famous modernist paintings" from the US, Canada, and Europe are projected with superimposed projected 16mm film cross-hair - the tilted X.

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