Film stills, frame panels from (DVD version) 'VR: A MOVIE'

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Film Video description and panels of frame captures from 'VR: A MOVIE' (1996) by Al Razutis (from web and FaceBook)

'VIRTUAL GODDESS' - VR:A MOVIE

VR: A MOVIE takes up where 'AMERIKA' and 'A Message From Our Sponsor' left off, and is a compilation (stock/appropriated footage) from 20 features, particularly those that depict or deal with 'virtual reality' and synthetic worlds of shifting metaphors. It is also a critique of VR mythologies, especially as they depict women and slaves to a tech ego, and a criticism of the narcissism, power-tripping, and the collective fascination that Hollywood film has with its own techno-dick. 

Sections by theme: Part 1: 'The Set up', Part 2: 'Virus Activation', Part 3: 'Cut to the Chase', Intermission: 'Off World', Part 4: 'Punishment Park', Part 5: 'Meet Your Maker'

Taking as a further trip into 'metalanguage', where previous films in 'Amerika' had left us, and now taking it into virtual reality, the tech and their worlds, right from screen to a 'situationist' re-mix, with some new and extreme forms of both psycho and semiotics, this extreme example of montage and appropriation delivers us to a dystopian view of VR.

Frame panel enlargements from FaceBook 'Amerika' page:

VR: A MOVIE frame capture - compilation video by Al Razutis 1996
VR: A MOVIE frame capture -  compilation  video by Al Razutis 1996
VR: A MOVIE frame capture -  compilation  video by Al Razutis 1996
VR: A MOVIE frame capture -  compilation  video by Al Razutis 1996

VR: A MOVIE frame capture - compilation video by Al Razutis 1996
VR: A MOVIE frame capture -  compilation  video by Al Razutis 1996
VR: A MOVIE frame capture -  compilation  video by Al Razutis 1996
VR: A MOVIE frame capture -  compilation  video by Al Razutis 1996

Previous distribution of VR: A MOVIE:
Video Out, Vancouver; V-Tape, Toronto; film-maker self distribution

VR: A MOVIE - 16 min., VIDEOTAPE, 1996

1 min. excerpt video on YouTube:

VR A MOVIE excerpt on YouTube

Video clips on YouTube (Xalrazutis Channel)

AMERIKA on video (stills): AMERIKA stills          Avant-Garde Film Catalog

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