J&L Video is the first in a new series of anthology DVDs featuring 12
original shorts, each under seven minutes, by contemporary artists and
filmmakers. In the spirit of the book series J&L Illustrated, J&L
Video compiles films and video works from around the world with a
sensibility that combines the real and the ridiculous. Featured works
include Catherine Ross's split-screen, cropped outtakes from the TV show
The Price is Right; Matt McCormick's Destiny, a bizarre world of
clicking and applause; dreamy documentary sketches about family by Brock
Enright; stock figurative illustrations representing all of human
history in a continuous loop by Oliver Laric; Will Rogan's incredibly
mundane experiments with chance; Julie Lequin's Sounds Like Julie, in
which the artist is imitated by her friends; an exchange between a
photographer and his subject in the American Southwest by Amy
Harrington; Ed Panar's ebullient music video, Here I Go Again; Shana
Moulton's exercise-video fantasy world, Feeling Free; and Andrew
Lampert's fashion-shoot nightmare.