Hollywood Burn - Soda_Jerk with Sam Smith
Screenings, November 16 & 17 2019, Tangent Projects gallery.
In collaboration with Loop City Screen Festival, Tangent Projects did a weekend of screenings of Hollywood Burn by Soda_Jerk with Sam Smith. The film was completed in 2006, runs for approximately 52 minutes and is in English.
Soda_Jerk worked in collaboration with Sam Smith for over 4 years to complete Hollywood Burn, it is an anti-copyright epic constructed from hundreds of samples pirated from the Hollywood archive.
The year is 3001 and in their moon lab, the pixel pirates have devised a plan to go back to 1955 to create an Elvis Presley video-clone in order to fight the tyrant Moses and his copyright commandments. Watch as Elvis fights back against the evil leaders of copyright and the repressive anti-remix regime.
Part trash cinema and part remix manifesto, Hollywood Burn adopts the tactical responses of the parasite, feeding off the body of Hollywood and inhabiting its cinematic codes. The unwitting all star-cast includes Elvis Presley, Charlton Heston, Jack Sparrow, Monkey Magic, Bette Davis, Batman, Jaws, Jesus, the Hulk, the Hoff and the Ghostbusters.
To accompany this visual feast, you can expect a kick-ass sound track!
Soda_Jerk is a two-person art collective who work at the intersection of documentary and speculative fiction. They are fundamentally interested in the politics of images: how they circulate, whom they benefit, and how they can be undone. Predominantly working with video, their sample-based projects have also taken the form of cut-up texts, manifestos, screensavers and lecture performance. Formed in Sydney in 2002, they have been based in New York since 2012.