Week 3_Video Response_Evan Hoyt

 Vito Acconci

Theme Song (1973)

This video was extremely unsettling, to say the least, and I got this feeling as soon as I started watching. It was all taken in one static shot, as if you are lying next to this man and he is looking up at you, talking about how he wants to be close to you, etc... I had trouble sitting there and watching the video and I definitely didn't watch the whole 9 minutes if I'm being completely honest. But I think this is exactly the point: it's meant to be unsettling. The camera angle, the hand motions he uses, the way he looks up at you, the way he talks...it's all so creepy and disturbing without anything he says being something that would be censored on TV. He doesn't use what we would consider profane or explicit language, but you still wouldn't want to see this on a family network.