Fanny and Johnny on Acid
Year of release: 1990
Original format: U-Matic video (4.3)
Running time: 9 minutes 45 seconds
Screening format: U-Matic video and DVD
Credits: A film by Kayla Parker and Stuart Moore
Distribution and sales: Sundog Media
info@sundog.co.uk
Archive U-Matic tape held in Videoteca de la Fundación
Provincial de Cultura, Cádiz
Description
In a small suburban house it’s 2am, and
Fanny’s in the kitchen preparing fish. But what for? Things
aren’t quite as they seem. In this internal aquarium world,
time and perceptions distort. Surreal food fantasy in which
a series of bizarre rituals with fish call up an aquanaut
from the Deep.
Production notes
Publication and comments
1990 review of screening at VIPER
Exhibition selected
1994
Frame by Frame Plymouth Arts Centre, UK
Faint Frontiers Windows Arts Centre, Bath, UK
Underground Happening Plymouth Arts Centre, UK
Bristol Community Festival Ashton Court, UK
Stuff of Dreams Bristol, UK
1993
Ashton Court Festival Creative Video
and Electronic Arts Marquee, Bristol Community
Festival, Ashton Court, Bristol, UK. The Electronic
Arts programme featured six short films by Kayla
Parker: Cage of Flame, Fanny and
Johnny on Acid, Looks Familiar, Night Sounding, Nuclear Family, and Unknown Woman.“...showcasing
the most exciting, creative and innovative new film
and video in the South West. Over the weekend the
programme will provide wider exposure for a range of
rarely-seen experimental works which challenge and
shift our perceptions of video art.” (Programme notes)
(7 and 8 August 1993)
1991
5emes Rencontres Video Art, Realisateurs
Indépendants Anglais programme, which also included George
Snow’s Muybridge Revisited, Centre d’Art
Contemporain de Basse-Normandie, Herouville Saint-Clair,
France (28 November - 1 December 1991)
International Video Festival:
International Videoworks Competition programme,
Cádiz, Spain (September 1991)
Cidade
de Vigo II Festival Internacional de
Video, Vigo Spain (22 - 26 January 1991)
1990
WRO 90 Sound Basis Visual Art Festival,
Wroclaw, Poland (3 - 9 December 1990)
SCAN+ 5th Australian
International Video Festival, Paddington, New
South Wales, Australia (2 - 11 November 1990)
13th Tokyo Video Festival Japan
(November 1990)
VIPER ’90 International Film und Videotage
Luzern, Switzerland (23 - 27 October 1990)
On the Make Watershed Media Centre,
Bristol, UK (July 1991)
Fringe Film and Video Festival Edinburgh,
UK (1990)
Glastonbury Festival,Vision
Vortex UK (June 1990)
C.I.C.V. Festival Videotheque,
Montbeliard, France (1990)
IKAROS Aarhus, Denmark (1990)