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Second Season Shows:
Each show runs 27:30 unless otherwise noted. |
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 WORK Jim Ospenson Coordinating Producer |
Termite TV invades the workplace. Workers of some worlds have nothing to lose: their chains include body fluid commodity futures, writer's block, surveillance cameras, condoms, super bowl discontent, the post office, and their own golden throats. |
 FIRE Jim Ospenson Coordinating Producer |
A white hot Termite expose of pyrotechnic brain chemistry, redheads, lava sacraments, flag burners, and Waco Texas scorches your home screen. Barbecue Stool sings a ballad of the electric chair. |
 ORION CLIMBS by Michael O'Reilly |
ORION CLIMBS combines colorized Pixelvision and standard Pixelvision interviews, video beamed from the space shuttle Discovery, and English language records from the 1940's to explore the relationship between the maker and his family and friends utilizing a complex soundtrack and heavily layered images. |
 KAMAKA'EHA (aching eye) (60 minutes) mike kuetemeyer anula shetty Coordinating producers |
One hundred years after the overthrow of the Nation of Hawai'i, Kamaka'eha, a ceremony at the erupting Kilauea Volcano unifies the political struggle of native Hawaiians with the living land they fight to regain. This lyrical documentary blends traditional oral history with visual techniques drawn from still photography and video art. It interweaves the personal stories of six Native Hawaiians with powerful portraits of Hawai'i's volcanic terrain. |
 OLD TECH / / NEW TECH Founding Termites Coordinating Producers |
Once the fire has been started there is no turning back. Trips to Biosphere II and the mock pyramid of the Luxor Hotel reveal commercialism of the future as well as the past. If "technology is final, not optimal," will the Wonderbra save us all? |
 RANDOM NOTES OF RAGPICKER WOMAN dorothea braemer Coordinating Producer |
Random Notes of Ragpicker Woman is an investigation of people's ideas and memories about recycling. It explores recycling during times of war, depression and peace; as a form of protest, as an expression of guilt, as an offering of goodwill and an empty diplomatic gesture. |
 INDIA anula shetty Coordinating Producer |
Termite TV goes to India. A dancing camel accompanies us on our explorations of ghost rooms, ants and termite mounds. Reflections on being a tourist in India are combined with Indian perspectives on being away from home. |
 PROMISES, PROMISES Meryl Perlson Coordinating Producer |
The show is in the mail, along with girl scout oaths, student loan repayments, a cheap landlord, sweepstakes millions, religious covenants and the Contract on America. Termite TV wants to know: what have you done for us lately? |
 PROMISCUOUS VIRGIN dorothea braemer Coordinating Producer |
When the promiscuous virgin visits the continents everyone contemplates their own virginity; how they lost it, what they gained and where to go from there. In India, the Promiscuous Virgin searches for the cosmic egg and finds a hairbrush instead... This show makes you wonder: Am I promiscuous or am I still a virgin? |
 HABITS Meryl Perlson Coordinating Producer |
Ritual mongers and substance abusers will delight in this binge of obsessive activities. Bleed with the pain of ever picked toenails, buzz with caffeine from the almighty bean, wilt under the weight of thinking too much, and never, never change your morning ritual. The Surgeon General guarantees this show to be addictive. |
 ANIMAL mike kuetemeyer Coordinating Producer |
Purring pets and bored grandmothers become bonded with the Id and the Ego through the forces of Animal Magnetism. But, tales of dead dogs and ducks reveal the tragic complications of inter-species love. What animal will you be reincarnated into? psst...Nicole's dog knows O.J. did it. |
 SECRETS AND SECRETIONS Karen Lefkovitz anula shetty Coordinating Producers |
Was the world really created out of the secretions of white ants? Termite TV explores and creates connections between secrets and secretions. This show reveals the lesser known poetry of Jonathan Swift, gives a critical look to the photographs of Andres Serrano, and reflects on the stain of menstruation. No bodily fluid is left unexamined. |
 MUSIC Michael O'Reilly Coordinating Producer |
Sacred Harp music in an Alabama church; singing vaginas and decomposing corpses set to original a Capella compositions and backwards classical pieces; conch shell sampling and songwriting made easy; even between modern-day Georges, Pauls and Johns (did Ringos ever count ?); and the three best things about being a grown up, which, you guessed it, most assuredly include music. |
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