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Art Show Down is a frontier-themed art game show shot in front of a live studio audience. This wacky pilot DVD includes all seven zany episodes culminating in the Ultimate Artist Challenge in which one contestant remains standing after defeating the herd of talented challengers! Producers Roland Smart and Jeff Warmouth explore highbrow vs. lowbrow interpretations of contemporary culture in this unique game show, which exploits the best (and the worst!) of the game show genre through the lens of the arts.
Contests include The Auction Price is Right, in which contestants must guess the final selling price of a famous artwork at action, the Hang 'em High rock climbing gallery wall challenge, a paintball contest in The Action Art Shooting Gallery. Schmooze & Booze in which contestants must eat, drink, and schmooze to curry the favor of a guest curator, and A Brush with Danger, in which contestants must brand each other with paint through an action painting, head-thrusting, paintbrush helmeted, and hands-hog-tied challenge!
| Catalog Number: MC-731 |
Type: Feature |
Genre: Comedy / Satire |
| Copyright: 2006 |
Length: 210 minutes |
Format:
DVD Region: 0 (All) |
| TV System: NTSC |
ISBN: |
UPC: 837101304962 |
| Label: Art Show Down |
Notes: Produced by: Roland Smart & Jeff Warmouth
Directed by: Jeff Warmouth & Paul Concemi
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Films In Compilation
Art Show down directed by
Roland
Smart
USA,
Comedy / Satire,
2006,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
03:30:00
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2008-02-22 VideoLibrarian.com
By M. Johanson
Here’s a curious new approach to TV on DVD: pile on some episodes of a proposed TV series, release it into the wild, and see who bites. Here we have seven pilot episodes of an Old West art-themed game show—a project of the Cambridge, MA-based experimental gallery Art Interactive—in which contestants try to guess the prices that actual works of art sold for at auction, attempt to schmooze a “gallery owner” while quaffing wine and cheese, battle other contestants with helmet-mounted paintbrushes, or climb a gallery wall (the “Hang ‘em High” challenge). While the sheer goofiness behind the concept is momentarily diverting, the implied satire on both the contemporary art market and artist subculture is one-dimensional, at best. DVD extras include fake commercials (like one for “tofu” made from meat, for the carnivorous companions of sensitive vegetarians), a gallery of the show’s original music, and more. Optional. |
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Art Show Down
MC-731, 2006
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Art Show Down is a frontier-themed art game show shot in front of a live studio audience. This wacky pilot DVD includes all seven zany episodes culminating in the Ultimate Artist Challenge in which one contestant remains standing after defeating the... more >
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