Michael Robinson

The Dark, Krystle

Michael Robinson

Joan Collins, Linda Evans

The cabin is on fire! Krystle can't stop crying, Alexis won't stop drinking, and the fabric of existence hangs in the balance, again and again and again.

You Don't Bring Me Flowers

Michael Robinson

Viewed at its seams, a National Geographic slideshow from the 1960s and '70s deforms into a bright white distress signal.

The General Returns from One Place to Another

Michael Robinson

Shaping a concurrently indulgent and skeptical experience of the beautiful, the film draws an uneasy balance between the romantic and the horrid. A Frank O'Hara monologue (from a play of the same title) attempts to undercut the sincerity of the landscape, but there are stronger forces surfacing.

Desert States: You Win Again

Michael Robinson

Culled from segments of the Miss USA pageants of the late 1980s, Robinson’s silent two-channel video, 'Desert States (You Win Again)', reduces and refracts the source’s highly-gendered pageantry to its rawest form of ceremonial spectacle.

Chiquitita and the Soft Escape

Michael Robinson

Twin attempts at structuring images of home and loved-ones collapse in the face of the romantic.

All Through the Night

Michael Robinson

A charred visitation with an icy language of control: "there is no room for love". Splinters of Nordic fairy tales and ecological disaster films are ground down into a prism of contradictions in this hopeful container for hopelessness.

Victory Over the Sun

Michael Robinson

Dormant sites of past World's Fairs breed an erruptive struggle between spirit and matter, ego and industry, futurism and failure. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory; nothing lasts forever even cold November rain.

Light Is Waiting

Michael Robinson

Candace Cameron Bure, Andrea Barber

A very special episode of television's Full House devours itself from the inside out, excavating a hypnotic nightmare of a culture lost at sea. Tropes of video art and family entertainment face off in a luminous orgy neither can survive.

These Hammers Don't Hurt Us

Michael Robinson

Tired of underworld and overworld alike, Isis escorts her favorite son on their final curtain call down the Nile, leaving a neon wake of shattered tombs and sparkling sarcophagi.

If There Be Thorns

Michael Robinson

A dark wave of exile, incest, and magic burns across the tropics, forging a knotted trail into the black hole. Three star-crossed siblings wander in search of one another as a storm of purple prose and easy listening slowly engulfs them.

And We All Shine On

Michael Robinson

An ill wind is transmitting through the lonely night, spreading deception and myth along its murky path, singing the dangers of the mediated spirit.

Polycephaly in D

Michael Robinson

Trisha Paytas

Informed by an underlying sense of anxiety and anguish, Michael Robinson’s Polycephaly in D nestles fragments of narrative within a collage of sound, image, and text that oscillates between the elegant and the discordant.

Line Describing Your Mom

Michael Robinson

This is the new choreography of devotion, via the vlog of southern nightmares. This is the light that never goes out. This is the line describing your mom.

Carol Anne Is Dead

Michael Robinson

A family embraces the heart of evil in this Poltergeist remake/drag-show circa 1992.

Mad Ladders

Michael Robinson

A modern prophet’s visions of mythical destruction and transformation are recounted across a turbulent geometric ceremony of rising curtains, swirling set pieces and unveiled idols from music television’s past. Together, these parallel cults of revelation unlock a pathway to the far side of the sun.

Motel Flora

Michael Robinson

A collection of discarded souls, rescued from the trash of a college darkroom.