Genital Revolution

This collection of short pieces by local video artist Amy Harrington includes a few gems well worth seeing. Of special note are "Acrotcholis," about one man’s epic journey to make a filmic document of the life of his crotch; "Get Your Genitals off My Top Hat," whose title speaks for itself; and "He She Me," featuring a wild explosion of senseless violence, name calling and bad makeup on the dusty streets of the Old Pueblo. Even where the imagery is not successful, the music, by Howe Gelb, Chazz Petersen and John Convertino, among others, is uniformly excellent, and a lot of the shorter pieces take the music-video form where it would have and should have gone if MTV had never existed. It should be noted that the worst piece in the collection is the first piece, and after that, things just keep getting better, so I’d recommend coming and staying with it, because the rewards are great, especially if you define "rewards" as "watching testicles get dipped in green peas." And I think that if our current administration has taught us anything, it is that this is, indeed, the definition of "rewards."