Shelf Life

Shelf Life is a live action movie unfurls on stage, a film in which the desperate James, Wendy, and Max, living in an pervasively disposable world, become obsessed with the alluring Frankie. Each tries to possess and mold her in the form of their own media-induced desires, even as she uses them as a means to her own consumptive ends. Fueled by jealousy, rage, and betrayal, this "love quadrangle" ignites into a bizarre and tragic struggle over the ownership of happiness. Big Art Group's 2001 work dives deep into our garbage-loving culture and tells a tender cinematic love story doomed to sour in Shelf Life.

Shelf Life uses found images, garbage, live synchronized sound, and Real Time Film Technique. "Real-Time Film" was developed as a conceptual model collapsing performance, television, and movies using live action and video. It examines the use of image in entertainment, the experience of the image versus its manufacture, and the split between surface and interior.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Performance
• Art
• Multimedia
• Video
• Installation
• Theater
• Theatre