Good-by Elvis and USA
Good-bye Elvis and USA
Good-by Elvis and USA
A chaotic mixture of hand-drawn animation and magazine cut-outs appropriating American pop culture. With a soundtrack involving music and sounds played in reverse, iconography of war and pop culture are intercut or merged together with images of eroticism and consumption. The film screened at the 3rd Sogetsu Animation Festival 1971. (Source: Collaborative Cataloging Japan)
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A chaotic mixture of hand-drawn animation and magazine cut-outs appropriating American pop culture. With a soundtrack involving music and sounds played in reverse, iconography of war and pop culture are intercut or merged together with images of eroticism and consumption. The film screened at the 3rd Sogetsu Animation Festival 1971. (Source: Collaborative Cataloging Japan)
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slamDuncan52
June 28, 2019
Keiichi Tanami had an interesting place in the pop art scene of the late 60s/early 70s (also known as the late 60s). Good-by Elvis and USA shows a thoughtful extravaganza of a world now under assault by images for the first time. His imagery is abstract, frenetic, and jarring, as a signifier toward the breakdown of celebrity as human, production as craft, and culture as organic. It's a fond farewell to the days of Elvis and his meaning as a human musician, and a look around at the image that the man had become. If you're interested in psychedelic video, or artsy thought-pieces discussing the creationof mass pop culture and the production of symbolic late capitalism, then this and Tanaami's other short films of the era are an excellent addition to your study.
Sidewinder51
November 1, 2016
