Lost Relics of Questionable Value

There are movies that you wish you had never seen. Maybe they weren’t so bad, specifically, but they didn’t add much to your life. They were predictable, built upon layers and layers of cliché. They ignored rhythm, timing, the proper distribution of key insights, all things that give a story cadence and tension. In a word, they are so bad that you’re bored within the first five minutes.

Here’s the sad thing: there are thousands of those movies. A few of them became cult favourites, like Barbarella, Pink Flamingos or Plan 9 from Outer Space, but those are the exceptions. The ones that disappoint have now long been forgotten. All that effort, all that energy, and all of it has rained away.

So I was thinking about movements, stylistic durability, functional durability and aesthetic throwbacks, and was contacted by ULTRA2012 to take part in a group exhibition. The exhibition and music show would be a kind of throwback, and a podium for the new generation. That sounded perfect for me.

Here are four lost movies, which you don’t need to see. The titles just gave it all away, didn’t they?

All are available for sale as prints, sized 42×30cm. Get in touch.