Cheese Puffs

Single Channel Video, SD, trt, 1:00

 Fear Factor, WWF Back Yard Wrestling, Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire?, what do we do to be seen?

“Cheese Puff” is an experimental video about our relationship with modern television culture using the context of the ultimate junk food, cheese puffs.  We live in a middle-class American town with Super Wall Mart, Targets, and Costco.  We eat at McDonald’s, Taco Bell, and TGI Fridays.  We watch Fox News.  We want to be heard.

In this work, we plunge through water and cheese puffs, while never touching.  The cheese powder and oils eventually fall from the puffs making the water cloudy and thick.  Through the use of irony, we explore our relationship with each other and our culture.  Additional footage includes images of our shoot in our garage referring to backyard sporting events such as backyard wrestling in Middle America.