{"id":876,"date":"2007-09-27T20:31:45","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T02:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=876"},"modified":"2025-01-10T08:29:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T14:29:32","slug":"nothing-compares-2-u-films-videos-by-michael-robinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2007\/09\/27\/nothing-compares-2-u-films-videos-by-michael-robinson\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing Compares 2 U: Films &amp; Videos by Michael Robinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thursday, September 27, 2007, 6pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1569\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/05\/robinson_all-shine450.jpg\" alt=\"robinson_all-shine450\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Michael Robinson in person!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The films and videos of Michael Robinson are a deft mix of stunning beauty and nervy wit. He combines lush, often optically-printed imagery with the electric fuzz of video-games, old movie footage, and dusty magazine layouts in pop song\u2013scored cine-ballads that are at once cynical and sincere. In tonight\u2019s program, the sitcom-perfect world of <em>Full House<\/em> devours itself in the demonic<em> Light is Waiting<\/em> (2007); National Geographic centerfolds unfurl into oblivion in <em>You Don&#8217;t Bring Me Flowers <\/em>(2005); and a radio tunes in karaoke transmissions from beyond in the elegiac <em>And We All Shine On<\/em> (2006). A multiple prize-winner in festivals across North America and Europe, Robinson will also premiere two new pieces: <em>Victory over the Sun<\/em> (2007) and an as-of-yet untitled video. Also screening: <em>The General Returns from One Place to Another<\/em> (2006); <em>Tidal<\/em> (2001); and <em>Chiquitita and the Soft Escape<\/em> (2003). 2001\u201307, Michael Robinson, USA, ca. 75 min, various formats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, September 27, 2007, 6pm Michael Robinson in person! The films and videos of Michael Robinson are a deft mix of stunning beauty and nervy wit. He combines lush, often optically-printed imagery with the electric fuzz of video-games, old movie footage, and dusty magazine layouts in pop song\u2013scored cine-ballads that are at once cynical and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2007\/09\/27\/nothing-compares-2-u-films-videos-by-michael-robinson\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Nothing Compares 2 U: Films &amp; Videos by Michael Robinson<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":1569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[115,211,423,615],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-12","tag-chicago","tag-experimental","tag-monographic-shows","tag-usa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10037,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/10037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}