EATING MAKEUP
2015 · 3m · USA
Directed by Jennifer Juniper Stratford
Genres: experimental, musical
Tones: absurdist, surreal, whimsical
A music video for Seth Bogart's single 'Eating Makeup' (featuring Kathleen Hanna), directed by Jennifer Juniper Stratford — a brightly colorful, surreal video about the literal consumption of beauty products, inspired by a My Strange Addiction episode, evoking Pee-Wee's Playhouse and John Waters.
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Kathleen Hanna and Seth Bogart eat makeup in a video directed by a woman who runs an underground analog TV studio called Telefantasy. This is John Waters if John Waters had an analog media lab. Completely correct cultural object.
Jennifer Juniper Stratford's analog-video-art background turning a Seth Bogart/Kathleen Hanna pop video into broadcast from parallel 1980s public-access — Telefantasy Studios is the genuine article here and Pee-Wee/Polyester is exactly the lineage.
Three-minute Seth Bogart music video with Kathleen Hanna, directed by Jennifer Juniper Stratford via her Telefantasy Studios analog-video practice — the public-access-from-a-parallel-1980s register is her whole thing, and it works.