NEWS
One creature's progress in a world of others.
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A NOTE ON SIZE AND SANCTITY
HORRIBLE CHILD, in spite of its talking-head visual syntax, which ostensibly would seem to recommend it naturally to TV and PC monitors, comes to life only on the large screen. Little heads and big heads have very different presences. Easter Island key-chains never made anyone weep for the right reasons. Indeed, HORRIBLE CHILD is our attempt to create a [religious experience] (too toxic a phrase, but the best at hand): the origin and increasingly secular charge of all the arts, most certainly those which address people assembled in enormous rooms, facing in the same direction. The soul throttling, mindblowing aspects of large movie screens offer an audience the chance to become, for an hour or two, a congregation. Here at horriblechild.com, albeit by definition, we believe that HORRIBLE CHILD, for your purposes alas zooligically a "feature film," perhaps "experimental film" (the two terms suggesting opposite, perhaps overdelineated possibilities), is more specifically a 72-minute audio/visual recipe, quasinarrational, for a collective unusual experience via large image and loud sound. And so we would beg you, if you cannot preview our DVD submission on an enormous surface along with a full minyon, to view our Size Ratio Guide before watching it on a small one with your eyes ideally no more than an inch away, in the company of oodles of imaginary friends.
I acknowledge the somewhat bloated tone of this post. One wishes one's work to speak for itself - but there are fewer and fewer big screens around - a veritable dearth of larynxes. Thank you for reading.
LK