Light is Waiting

11.5 min / SD / 2007

A very special episode of television's 'Full House' devours itself from the inside out, excavating a hypnotic nightmare of a culture lost at sea. Tropes of video art and family entertainment face off in a luminous orgy neither can survive.

“If you see one 11-minute video this year, make it Michael Robinson's magnificent, hilarious, and terrifying Light Is Waiting (2007). The primordial, extreme slo-mo soundtrack is like a glitch mix from beyond the grave by DJ Screw. Robinson's seizure-inducing blasts of stroboscopic light rival those of the Austrian film experimentalist Peter Tscherkassky. And I haven't even mentioned the Olsen twins … 'Light Is Waiting' exorcises American pop cultural demons via video the way Kenneth Anger did with film in 1964's Scorpio Rising.” — Johnny Ray Huston, San Francisco Bay Guardian, April 2008