SMASH TV Presents: MEGAPLEX
Edited by Brendan Shields & Ben Craw, 2016.
USA, 80 min.
THURSDAY, JUNE 2 – 7:30 PM // Ben Craw and Brendan Shields in person
THURSDAY, JUNE 2 – 10:00 PM // Ben Craw and Brendan Shields in person
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29 – 7:30 PM
EPILEPSY WARNING: This video has been identified to potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. For real. If you’re gonna have a seizure you’re gonna have a bad time.
Smash TV is back at Spectacle with their biggest and boldest video to date! Join Ben and Brendan on June 2nd as they present their latest epic VJ mix. Returning to their roots, MEGAPLEX is the long awaited followup to the critically acclaimed SKINEMAX. Once again showcasing a plethora of insane 80s and early 90s movies, it’s 80 minutes of meticulously arranged VJ madness.
Whereas SKINEMAX was a first attempt at an ambitious idea, this latest effort is much more fully realized, utilizing a myriad of editing and layering tricks picked up over the past 5 years. Deeper, darker, and definitely more bizarre. Borrowing from the Grindhouse tradition and from Tarantino’s more recent tribute, MEGAPLEX is a double feature that both members of Smash TV worked on independently.
TURBO, edited by Ben Craw, kicks things off by getting right in your face. A high octane tribute to 80s action flicks, robots, and break dancing. LOTS of break dancing.
Next up, BEYOND, edited by Brendan Shields, is a decidedly weirder affair. Featuring the most bizarre scenes from a number of science fiction and fantasy movies, it liberally utilizes layered video to deliver a hallucinatory experience.
As a palette cleanser in between, Smash TV is proud to present COMING ATTRACTIONS, a 15 minute collection of 8 vignettes editing together previously unexplored genres and styles.
All in all, this is an intense experience you’re unlikely to forget. It’s a cliched phrase at this point, but Smash TV guarantees you’ve never seen anything like this before!