Tag: The Villains
As part their local filmmaker series, Rhett Jones’ The Villains is screening this evening at Videology in Williamsburg. Earlier this year, ANIMAL profiled the independent film inspired by the proliferation of DIY media and Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chinoise, with Marshall McLuhan theory standing in for ideologies of Mao. A group of students form a political micro-collective in their shared apartment. They are on a […]
Recently, Rhett Jones’ talked to us about his film The Villains — an adaptation of Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chinoise (itself an adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s “The Possessed”) about a group of young and flawed aspiring activists, set in modern day Brooklyn, their Maoist theories replaced with Marshall McLuhan and new media idealism. Today, the Creator’s Project debuted the glitched out datamosh trailer […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, Brooklyn-based artist Rhett Jones talks about his feature film The Villains inspired by Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chinoise, Marshall McLuhan and the proliferation of DIY new media. He also premieres the project’s next stage as a Search Engine Generated Artwork […]
