Friday, March 24, 2006

Art Star

Mock-doc "The Office" mixes it up, with fiction, comedy, and what feels like hand-held interviews of the "players" whose role it is to "play themselves"...

Post-Seinfeldian "Curb Your Enthusiasm" takes a basic set of ideas and treats them with improvisational performace art composed on the set, much in the same way that Steven Soderbergh did while developing K Street on HBO...

Terry Zwigoff, who made the Crumb documentary featuring the underground comix artist of the same name, has a new film out called Art School Confidential...

In answer to a question I brought up in two recent posts here and here, "What's next? And who's gonna invent it?," here's an idea: a mock-doc metacommentary on life in art school that takes a basic set of ideas and treats them with improvisational performance art composed on the set, a space where the student-players "play themselves" both in scripted and unscripted reality. It can appear as a download for your video iPod or PSP. It can be delivered over the WWW as an online video blog. Eventually, it can even be packaged as a DVD set (if and when you get enough episodes).

But what to call it?

ART STAR?


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