The Resident's
Commercial Album Special Edition DVD
The
faceless "anti-stars" group that is known for their giant
eyeball heads and tuxedos has released a DVD of their amazingly artistic
videos.
To
celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Commercial Album, the DVD will
both complement and complete the project with an amazing collection of
56 one-minute films based on the original 40 Commercial Album songs. The
Residents have also assembled a group of 42 visual artists from around
the world for production.
Working
in various forms ranging from
animation, live action, and
puppetry to drawing, photography
and sculpture, the disc is a
virtual film festival. In
addition, the DVD portrays an
innovative, game-like interface
that allows the audience to
explore a maze in the process of
watching the videos. It contains
an unpredictable series of
interactive features as it
reveals the 56 videos created by
The Residents and their
collaborators.
The Residents are now entering
its fourth decade as faceless anti-stars, existing in the dim outskirts
of mainstream awareness. During that entire time, they've consciously
kept their origins and personal lives shrouded in mystery. The creation
of this obviously contrived "mystery" was one of the first
decisions they reached after realizing that they had become a group -
something they define as an organism with a mind, will and direction of
its own. The essence of this decision was to aggressively create a
separation between their personal and professional lives. Anonymity was,
and is, their only rule. They live by it to this day.
