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"I'd like to throw you down and tie you up, strap on a dildo and fill your cup. Life can be a dream, but mostly it's not", sings a nightclub lesbian who looks just as horny as she is bored. At that point, a slutty type interrupts Lynyrd Skynyrds' hilarious performance of 'Freebird'. This 'southern rock' ballad was the anthem for machos among the male generation of the seventies. Just as in her equally infectious production 'A spy - Hester Reeve does the Doors' (1992), Silver twists the male roles and succeeds in ridiculing the suggestive jokes that are generally made at the presentation of Academy Awards and Grammys. Using 'found footage' (Barbara Streisand and Clint Eastwood enormously enjoy the jokes of the lesbian MC) and a reincarnated Lynyrd Skynyrd singer Ronnie van Zant, Suzie Silver provides a visual spectacle that gives as much pause for thought as visual humour.
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Erik Quint
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Camera: H.D. Motyl, Sadie Benning, Light: H.D. Motyl, Music: Lynyrd Skynyrd, Suzie Silver, With thanks to: IPA, The Editing House, Leigh Jones, Katy Maguire, Iris Moore, Greq Snider, Lawrence Steger, Musicians: Kent Kessler, Ken Vandermark, Michael Zerag, Production: Bait & Switch
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