----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I saw some of the Emergency Broadcast Network videos at Brisbane's Glare Festival of short and experimental film and video in October '94. The programme informs me that the video was shown at this year's Lollapalooza, so the video can't be too hard to locate. You might try getting in touch with the curator of Glare, Natalie Jeremijenko, through Brisbane Independent Filmmakers (PO Box 1277 Fortitude Valley Queensland Australia 4006). I am surprised at the rave Russell gave about the EBN pieces. As the discussion here about "Natural Born Killers" indicated, the music video aesthetic of fast montages of borrowed images has been very widely distributed in mainstream film and television, as well as experimental film and video; I feel it has become sufficiently commonplace and recognisable to be banal, particularly to audiences used to music video. I enjoyed the clips - for the first few minutes - but found they soon became repetitive and predictable, despite the funky soundtrack. The political outlook of the EBN video was part of what induced this reaction. Like most parody, they work within the parameters of their sources - making Dan Quayle or George Bush "speak" against their will has a certain subversive ring, but is still re-cycling images of rich white American men on experimental screens! It's interesting that the techniques of "cut up" mean that inversion is the easiest effect to achieve - leading to a kind of knee jerk oppositional flavour best illustrated in another film I saw at GLARE "Behold I Come Quickly" (Bob Paris, USA) - which has televangelists mouth satanic phrases. Nicole Matthews, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia