THE TINY VENTRILOQUIST: FINAL THOUGHTS SERIES TWO

The Tiny Ventriloquist is a suite of shorter works and includes recent collaborative videos featured alongside solo works by the following collaborators: Dani Leventhal, John Marriott, Jessie Mott, and James Richards. In these works, Reinke tries on and discards many voices, stances, histories, and ideologies. His style ranges from drawn animation to home and diary video to found footage. Connecting the wide range of stylistic approaches is Steve Reinke himself, acting as the narrator of his darkly humorous miniatures. The Tiny Ventriloquist comprises: Great Blood Sacrifice, Not Torn (Asunder from the Very Start), Beaver Skull Magick, The Root Problem of the World, Living, Loving, Learning, I am fisting again, Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima, My Name is Karlheinz Stockhausen, Boy / Analysis: An Abridgement of Melanie Klein's Narrative of a Child Analysis, and Cartoon for those who have a certain fondness for ideas, but are tired of thinking. Together they form a machine for draining all meaning from the world. A comedy, but not a pretty one.