PERFECT LEADER

Max Almy

“Perfect Leader” was a multi-award winning and internationally exhibited short experimental video, created and produced by Max Almy in 1984.  Using the latest in the newly emerging digital technology, Almy created a short humorous and horrifying critique of the modern art of ‘the selling of a President’.  It pokes fun at the media and the love/hate relationship that the public has with their potential leaders.  “Perfect Leader” was perfect for 1984 and has remained popular every four years as a new Presidential “leader” is created, marketed and sold. The video has been very widely exhibited and along with many video archives, it is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, NY. 

LEAVING THE 20th CENTURY

Max Almy

“Leaving the 20th Century” created by Almy in 1979, was an experimental three part video that created a fictional world of the future. It takes a satiric look at the 20th Century and raises some intriguing questions about the possibilities of the future.  Predating the coming avalanche of music videos, Almy used sophisticated technology to create a decidedly artistic work.  The work was premiered at the Long Beach Museum of Art, was widely exhibited and is still being reviewed and screened as a leading example of video art from it’s time.

DEADLINE

Max Almy

“Deadline” was a multi-monitor and projected video installation created in 1981.  It was premiered at 80 Langton in San Francisco.  The installation explored the stress of contemporary life where nothing is ever enough.  A constantly running man is alternately coaxed, seduced and ordered to keep running by a large menacing mouth.  The video created using the earliest digital video technology and was transformed into a single channel short video that was then widely exhibited internationally. 

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