"Just Kill Me" is a collection of shorts created between 1992 and 1999, that cover the beginning of the artist's exploration of digital motion collage. The seventeen titles chosen for this compilation combine to offer a range of personal perspectives and tones - from the poetic to the humorous and erotic. This program is one hour long and includes the titles: "Top Story Tonight", "Walk", "Peep", "Beach", "Boy Runs to Window", "Motion Study #1", "Love Street", "It's a Long Ride", "Phoenix Thing", "Hitchcock Vs the Martian", "Atomic Titz", "Capitalism Sucks!", "Love Goddess", "Hooray the Economy is Booming!", "Wire Girl", "Be Active and Make the Scene" and "Umbrella".

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	Top Story Tonight directed by Mark O'Connell USA, Experimental, 1999, Digital, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:02:20 And now the news... Just playing with the endless brutal drivel foisted on us all by the networks under the news label. The interchageability of the voices and stories, the shallowness, the spectacle, the mo... more info
	Walk directed by Mark O'Connell USA, Experimental, 1993, digital nightmare, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:03:30 One of my first digital pieces. Done while I was a grad student, it was an imaginary walk down my local "main drag." I encounter Elmer Fudd blowing up the street with dynamite, apes playing bagpipes, eagles ... more info
	Peep directed by Mark O'Connell USA, Experimental, 1994, digital, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:03:00 Voyeurism, pronography, hypocrisy, etc... 1st Place Winner of the New York Quick Time Festival put on by the Pratt Manhattan, Apple and the New York Underground Film Festival. I think it was '94 but it may... more info
	Beach directed by Mark O'Connell USA, Experimental, 1996, digital, Color, 00:03:30 At the beach it's not unusual to find water, sand, Winnebagos, fish, and my favorite, mollusks!... more info
	Boy Runs to Window directed by Mark O'Connell USA, Experimental, 1997, Digital Video/Quick Time, Color, Magnetic Monaural, 00:03:00 A boy awakes either to or from his dreams. It's all so melancholy. What could it possibly mean?... more info
	Motion Study #1 directed by Mark O'Connell USA, Visuals / VJ, 1999, video, Color, Optical Monaural, 00:08:00 Ambient, intended to be looped. Focused on the distortion (social, spiritual, sexual) inherent in pornographic experience, as well as on the textures of near death celluloid.... more info
	Love Street directed by Mark O'Connell USA, Experimental, 1996, digital, Color, 00:02:30 I was trapped in a freight elevator during an earthquake in Lima. I was there for 3 days and in that time studied the stains on the walls of the ancient shaft. I discovered inscribed in the constellations of ... more info
	Long Ride directed by Mark O'Connell USA, Experimental, 1993, digital hell, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:03:00 Another early experiment, fighting, coaxing, cajoling the limited hardware and software options available at the time. Looking for more ways to composite, paint and manipulate sequences of images. At this poi... more info
	Phoenix Thing directed by Mark O'Connell USA, Experimental, 1994, digital, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:02:30 A story of mutilation and resurrection. Warning: A penis smokes a cigarette.... more info
	Hitchcock vs. The Martian directed by Mark O'Connell USA, Experimental, 1999, Digital, Color, 00:04:00 Hitchcock and the Martian join the debating team. Hilarity ensues.... more info
	Atomic Titz directed by Mark O'Connell USA, Experimental, 2000, digital, Color, 00:05:40 Sex, industry, science, martini shakers and the hell bomb. Fun for the entire family.... more info
	Capitalism Sucks! directed by Mark O'Connell USA, Experimental, 1996, digital, Color, 00:02:00 A brief rant on the joys of living with an economic system that is often as brutal as it is successful. This film was delivered to the Edinburgh Fringe Film and Video Festival in 1996 via 28.8 modem. (It... more info
	Love Goddess directed by Mark O'Connell USA, Experimental, 1997, digital, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:03:30 Fondle suck lick thrust etc..... Images are mainly heavily manipulated and layered samples from old porn and peep trailers. Also includes biology film samples and classic monster trailer samples. Audio tr... more info
	Hooray! The Economy is Booming directed by Mark O'Connell USA, Experimental, 1998, digital, B&W, Magnetic Stereo, 00:03:30 The economy, well, sometimes it's good for some people, I guess, at least that's what I hear...... more info
	Wire Girl directed by Mark O'Connell USA, Experimental, 1997, Digital, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:00:35 She's young, she's beautiful, she's totally naked. What could it possibly mean?... more info
	Be Active directed by Mark O'Connell USA, Experimental, 1997, digital, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:02:40 A termite walks into a cocktail lounge and asks, "Where's the bartender?" Brief Description: The title is part of an old commercial for a product that I think was called "Groom and Clean" (?) or somethin... more info
	Umbrella directed by Mark O'Connell USA, Visuals / VJ, 1998, digital, Magnetic Stereo, 00:08:00 An ambient animation made from a single still image of (you guessed it!) an umbrella. Please be assured that it is in fact more interesting then it might sound, as the umbrella is subjected to a LOT of messin... more info

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