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"An ode
to flowers, fear, potatoes, and paranoia, with a special appearance by
U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft."
-Kent Lambert
"A
ritual recitation of the mundane for uncertain times."
-New
York Video Festival
"Kent
Lambert's chilling Security Anthem is an exercise in post-September 11
dementia in which banal lines delivered by talking heads ("The onions
made him cry") become increasingly sinister, leading to a surprise
ending featuring John Ashcroft."
-Fred Camper, Chicago
Reader, 8/29/2003
"A 'Red
States Agonistes' in which a chorus of concerned faces from the
heartland narrate a tragedy of found poetry. Dirty potatoes, sharp
knives, an only son, and too-fast driving augur certain catastrophe
that not even the intervention of deus ex machina John Ashcroft can
divert or relieve."
-Spencer Parsons, Cinematexas
Running time: 3 minutes 30 seconds
Discount Cinema, Chicago,
January 2003
New York
Underground Film Festival, March 2003
Exploding Cinema, London,
March 2003
Thaw Festival, Iowa
City--"Blue" Jury prize, April 2003
Videoex Festival, Zurich,
Switzerland, May 2003
Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The
Netherlands, June 2003
New York Video Festival,
July 2003
"Radical
Entertainment: God's Eye View", Institute
of Contemporary Arts, London, July 2003
Photophobia 5, Art
Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, August 2003
Chicago Underground Film Festival,
August 2003
Cinematexas, September 2003
Brooklyn Underground Film
Festival, October 2003
Chroma Festival,
Gualdelajara, Mexico, November 2003
"Video
Plataforma Rotativa": Galeria Sofia, Ego
Galerie, and Gallery Can Felipa,
Barcelona, November 2003 (Impakt Highlights Tour)
L'Alternativa Festival,
Barcelona, November 2003
Viper Festival, Basel, Switzerland,
November 2003
SMART Project Space,
Amsterdam, November 2003
Select Media
Festival, Chicago, November 2003
Wimbledon College of Art,
London, November 2003
"You Can't Do That On Television", curated by Ed Halter, Massachusetts College of Art,
Boston, December 2003
Mix Festival, New York, December
2003
Bandits-Mages Festival,
Bourges, France, December 2003 (Impakt Highlights Tour)
Other
Cinema, San Francisco, December 2003
"The
Year in Experimental Film and Video", Ed Halter, Village Voice,
December 24, 2003
Black
Maria Film and Video Festival, Director's and Program Staff
Citation screening, New Jersey City, NJ, January 2004
Echo Park Film Center,
Los Angeles, February 2004
Media City,
Windsor, Ontario, February 2004
Signal and Noise Festival, Video
In, Vancouver, March 2004
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann
Arbor, MI, March 2004
"The Fear and Anger Show", Magic Lantern, AS220, Providence, RI, March 2004
Kraak Festival, Hasselt, Belgium,
March 2004 (Impakt Highlights Tour)
Portland
Documentary and eXperimental Film Festival, Portland, OR, April 2004
Images Festival, Toronto,
April 2004
"You Can't Do That On Television", Cinematheque
Ontario, Toronto, April 2004
"Dialogue with Pop", Spaceworks
@ The Tank, NYC, April-May 2004
COURTisane Festival, Gent,
Belgium, May 2004
Dallas Video Festival,
July 2004
Champ Libre, Montreal,
September 2004
Boxcar Film Series, Detroit, MI, April 2005
"The Truth Behind Fairy Tales", Victory Hall, NJ, May 2005
"Culture Jammers & Video Misfits", Iowa City Microcinema's Bike-In Theater, Iowa City, IA,
August 2005
"Films by Michael Robinson" (a screening of Robinson's films and influences), Roots and Culture, Chicago IL, March 2008
"PSYMULATION: Reenactments of the Present", Hamburger Eyes Photo Epicenter, curated by Chris Fitzpatrick, San Francisco, CA, March-April 2008
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