Short film
Grand Mal
1981 · 23 min
A disorienting, dreamlike collage of free-associative images and ideas that feels like peering into someone else's anxious subconscious.
- Directed by
- Tony Oursler
- Overview
- "Oursler’s thematic concerns betray classic Freudian anxieties about sex and death. In Grand Mal, the hero takes a convoluted odyssey through a landscape of disturbing experiences. The video’s free association includes, "digressions about the difference between salt and sugar and a version of the creation myth that is both banal and terrifying." — Christine Tamblyn, “Art Notes,” Scan (November/December 1981)
- How it feels
- Eerie, absurd, dark and satirical. Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Identity, death, sexuality, madness
- Content
- Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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