MTV IS SO PUNK!
2016 · 2m · USA
Directed by Everything Is Terrible!
Genres: documentary, experimental, satire
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, humorous
A found-footage remix demolition of MTV's mid-era 'punk' branding — the collective Everything Is Terrible! turns the channel's own archival content into evidence against itself.
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Everything Is Terrible! takes MTV's punk cosplay and feeds it through a shredder — under two minutes of media critique that would get screened at a dumpster fire.
Everything Is Terrible! turning MTV's archival 'punk' branding against itself in 106 seconds — found-footage demolition as their entire ethos, and at this length it's pure concentrate of their corporate-media-skewering project.
Under two minutes of Everything Is Terrible! turning MTV's own punk-LARP archival footage against itself — they're a known quantity at this kind of corporate demolition. Quick, mean, calibrated.