REBUKE - Satan's Take on the Temptation of Christ

see www.mellenheadprods.com for more examples of my video art. This is an old experimental video I made many years ago at BYU for an art assignment on CUBISM. I got a group of four guys together that I considered "religious geniuses" (Of course, I included myself as well!) and I asked them one question:

"What would the devil say about his tempting of Christ in the desert?"

I got some very interesting and strange replies that I collaged together in this experimental video. We projected old films on the bodies of two brothers that "acted" in the voice over. We used an old-style LIVE video mixer to combine and distort the footage in various ways. It was like an improv script combined with improv imagery (like a dance). Some said the movie is "homoerotic." My reply: "It's just two 'brothers' arguing and wrestling over the fate of the universe." The actors are indeed brothers. I never intended it to be homoerotic, but I guess it could be seen that way, huh?

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• experimental
• fine
• art
• video
• devil
• lucifer
• christ
• jesus
• temptation
• religious
• artistic
• bible
• manipulation
• improv
• evil
• poem

[civilianlife]

This video gave me a kind of headache, I couldn't finish it.

[KTRmovie]

it's actually more schwag than swag, but it is indeed swagesque. indeed.

[fedds1]

this is swag