Whats The Love Making Babies For (2003)

Trecartins extraordinary digital manipulations reach a new level as he speculates in vivid animation about reproduction sexuality and contemporary moralities Collapsing footage appropriated from television the Internet and pop culture Trecartin and his elaborately costumed collaborators manufacture an alien yet familiar reality Inside this startling new video world technophile gods wearing acidwashed denim argue about the future of gender and produce cryptic TV commercials In a surreal backyard town meeting characters deliver disjointed polemics assembled from clashing phrases that could have originated in ad campaigns instant messaging conversations or twisted episodes of syndicated science fiction Constructed from the raw material of disposable media clichés and fads Trecartins narrative leaves us to answer the riddles he poses