No Impersonator , Perpetrator

Cremaster 5 is a five-act opera (sung in Hungarian) set in late-ninteenth century Budapest. The last film in the series, Cremaster 5 represents the moment when the testicles are finally released and sexual differentiation is fully attained. The lamenting tone of the opera suggests that Barney invisions this as a moment of tragedy and loss. The primary character is the Queen of Chain (played by Ursula Andress). Barney, himself, plays three characters who appear in the mind of the Queen: her Diva, Magician, and Giant. The Magician is a stand-in for Harry Houdini, who was born in Budapest in 1874 and appears as a recurring character in the Cremaster cycle.

10 minute experimental film. Warning: this video involves frequent strobing.

Platitudes begin at peaks then rapidly descend and dismantle in order to ascend more acutely until they repeatedly and successively overwhelm.

Trite, closed memories flagrantly bleed into profuse openings mixed & held together by retaliatory colorations & obfuscations.

A 'reversal' of Jean-Léon Gérôme's 1872 painting Pollice Verso.

1 minute experimental film.

The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by modified Barbie dolls.

An experimental film from Jirí Lehovec, mixing the sound process with animated rhythms.

Sourced entirely from YouTube, converted and edited using Windows Media Maker. A comprehensive list of video credits is available at pointnever.com Root Strata, 2009 Pro-duplicated DVD-R in a slimline DVD case with translucent colour cover and transparent insert. Limited to 250 copies.

There is nothing left to do but complain.

Beyond all human restraint lies one's lugubrious layers of paint.

A coming-of-age story about a high-school girl who wants to use magic, featuring the 11-member experimental band Vampillia

Wax and wane until there is naught but boring pain.

Lines align during acclimated apexes, shadowy vertices, and bright burrows.

3 minute experimental film.

Rather pointless, rather stilted, fetid; not what we want us going after.

Centrist revelations abound among repetitions & revisitings.

Something I know or something I was told? When something scalding translates something to behold.

Abandoning the Abaddon-loathed abandoner opens plenty of reclaimed... everything(s).

Slowed, stowed, achingly retold.