Peep "TV" Show

I will now (unsuccessfully) attempt to not fall into another rant about Baudrillard While thematically similar to films like Annos “love and Pop” or Iwai’s “ all about Lilly Chou-Chou” peep TV show’s most divergent and arguably experimental feature is its distinctively un cinematic quality. It doesn’t expand on the editing, philosophies of Godard or brakhage nor compose a series of painterly images. Peep show trades the interpretive representation of cinemas history for one that is raw and direct similar to the works of the dogma movement or Wang bings work.  Yet Peepshow TV is distinctively a narrative film. However, instead of developing individual persons and characters it develops the texture of the context of their environment. It is not a narrative about dialogue between subjects but instead between subjects and coded objects.  2,996 people were blown to hell, but we have no framework to understand it no consistent narrative to contextualize it. We see an event like 911 take place on our screens and now what? what’s the next step we should take? We are filled with intense emotions but nowhere to put them towards. Postmodern communication has given us a hot potato after hot potato with nowhere to place them and so we hold onto the heat in our hands.  We are given the choice to crumble under the heat or embrace the pain of holding this great weight of information in our hands in and in our minds.  This is an important film, not because if it’s technical proficiency or expansion of Some establish cinematic canon. It is a film of contemporary culture for contemporary culture. It is interested in the emotions and issues of here and now on our digital screens in our dark rooms.  The Internet and the rapid rate at which culture is now produced is a difficult and extremely complicated topic but as artists we must do our best to tackle it for if we don’t, we will all be crushed by the weight of the heat.