Seemingly Semiotic Sentences Upon Viewing Video Clips Online

Browse over to McSweeneys

Then skip over for a view of a couple videoclips at the Wholphin Screening Room

Blogaulaire enjoyed the experience (though my sound disappeared on the long metrage item; long = + 8 min into the clip)

HERE are a few phrases I thought up all on my own to describe the genres of three of the clips that were presented at Wholphin and a couple McSweeney publications I have read:

• 3rd person voyeurist fiction
  (with a pretense of cinema verté)

• 1st person confessional fiction
  (with a pretense of honesty without pretence)

• Feeds from a plain vanilla fixed video camera recording the urban landscape
  (with the pretense of being uncut)

• Deconstruction of a holiday-greeting-card message

(with the pretense of knowing more than Hallmark Cards)

• NOT stories. Not built, narrated nor signifying something else. The degree zero POV (point of view).

(with a pretense that POV zero is camp AND profound - not a cliché)

• Mystery in the banal.

(with the pretense of overcoming the banal via mockery)