Skinemax is Koyaanisqatsi (or visual poem) for the children of the 80’s. It is described as long form entertainment for short attention spans. I’m not sure if that is correct or not, just that this was too cool not to share with you.
This hour long video adventure uses some very interesting music to tack you through a visual trip that marries all the greatest movies from the 80’s and early 90’s. I could never try to list all of the movies that are woven into this film, but here is just the short list I can remember:
Transformers: The movie (The real one, not the Michael Bay one)
Gremlins
Robocop
Big Trouble in Little China
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Brazil
Labyrinth
UHF
The Adventures of Baron Von Munchousen
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
War Games
Better off dead
Flight of The Navigator
and a lot more!
Be warned: This video is awesome, but if you start watching it, you will not accomplish anything for the next hour…
for a generation raised on late night television and B-movie VHS tapes. It’s . An hour long VJ odyssey, it will move your body and warp your mind.
A nostalgic look back at a half remembered childhood growing up in the 80s and early 90s, Skinemax takes a close look at the culture of that era. The images that motivated, delighted, and terrified us on the silver screen, set to propulsive modern music that pines for a simpler time.
Please support the original works, these are film makers and musicians that have upheld the values of originality and creativity.
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Tracklist:
Com Truise – Norkuy
Depakote – Tummler
Martial Canterel – For Us
Fulgeance – Glamoure
Daedelus – Penny Loafers
Teebs – Why Like This
Laurel Halo – Embassy
Games – Strawberry Skies
d’Eon – Transparency
FOE – A Handsome Stranger Called Death (Com Truise Remix)
Games – Shadows In Bloom
White Car – No Better
Gatekeeper – Forgotten
The Hasbeens – You And Me
Ford & Lopatin – Emergency Room
Rainbow Arabia – Mechanical
oOoOO – Burnout Eyess
VHS Head – Motions
Outer Limits Recordings – Plastik Child