Dallas Video Festival 2008

REVENGE OF THE LAWN The 12 city states that make up the Revenge of the Lawn are like snapshots in an Architectural Album – vivid, delightfully informal, digitally dangerous, they cast a new dreamlight on the uncaptured digital moments of experience, between the political and the personal. In these fantasies and love stories, these relationships and lost histories from Kabul, Little Rock, Tacoma and Peshawar, there is demonstrated city states of wit, humanity and originality not previously achieved since writers imagined an architecture of iDeath. Luminous, spellbinding environment of those inhabitants who live so close to iDeath and must know the sun not only shines a different color each day, but the world needs constant scripts to renew its own meaning. Concrete, yet at the same time virtual and mysterious, these states are prose poems of the modern architectural folk tale. Often defying reality with complete success, the 12 scripts offer 12 duchamps to ourselves, charming and devastatingly close to the lost city states of the world to come. While every effort has been made to keep within the bounds of imagined worlds it is sometimes necessary to break such rules at short notice. The architects, animators and scriptwriters of Revenge of the Lawn reserve all rights to show new digital solutions and visual scripts which may differ irrevocably from those outlined above. More than a miraculous journey through a country, city and state of mind, without an architecture of surreal mismatch, these would merely represent a lovely touch, of ingenious, blithe and beautiful architects who could never be dull! Digital Effects by Ryan Manning