SURVIVAL RESEARCH LABS: SELECTED VIDEO WORKS
Founded in 1978 by inventor and engineer Mark Pauline, Survival Research Laboratories bring the concept of Industrial Performance Art to its most logical and extreme end. The bodies in a typical SRL happening are not breathing, but they’re certainly alive. Weapons-grade robotics and fresh carcasses find themselves engaged in a dangerous, cacophonous marriage of flesh, fire, steel, blood, oil, and electrocution. Tonight the field is filled with smoke, cannonballs, shattered glass, and hypnotized excruciating screams. The only institution that does mechano-mortal combat better is the U.S. Military.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 10 – 7:30 PM
SATURDAY, JANUARY 14 – 7:30 PM
MONDAY, JANUARY 23 – 7:30 PM

A BITTER MESSAGE OF HOPELESS GRIEF
Dir. Jonathan Reiss, 1988
United States. 13 min

A SCENIC HARVEST FROM THE KINGDOM OF PAIN
Dir. Jonathan Reiss, Joe Rees, 1984
United States. 46 min

THE WILL TO PROVOKE: AN ACCOUNT OF FANTASTIC SCHEMES FOR INITIATING SOCIAL IMPROVEMENTS
Dir. Jonathan Reiss, 1989
United States. 45 min