Michael Lucid, Dirty Girls, 2000, 17:57 min.

If the great and ominous cosmos doesn’t illicit terror in you, I have one word that will – teenagers.

The ghosts of horny, bursting, writhing, sprouting, half-baked humans haunt our existence from birth. Our future lies in front, but it is decidedly full of precocious, pimpled pricks trying to break people down.

Not only should the horror of becoming one strike fear in us all, but nothing is more of an affront to emerging identities than being trapped in the anarchy of adolescence, a place where people are scrutinizing our fragile selves and describing us with phrases like – “the girl who didn’t take a shower since Kurt Cobain died.”

From the mouths of babes…

#1 – Born Under a Bad Sign

Kelly Kaczynski, Itinerant Horoscopes, 2011, 12:38 min.

Celestial bodes have been plotting against us since FOREVER. Though we can’t separate ourselves from the social, political and cultural circumstances that help shape who we are, it would be remiss to dismiss the truest determinant of our lives – what sign we are born under.

We are nothing if not fools under a system, put in place by astrological circumstances, and our identities unfold before us in the horoscope sections of local newspapers, magazine and internet articles.

There’s nothing like a fucking star telling you who you are…