{"id":356,"date":"2015-06-17T10:07:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2015\/06\/17\/watching-all-of-star-wars-at-once-is-a-surrealist-nightmare\/"},"modified":"2015-06-17T10:07:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T14:07:00","slug":"watching-all-of-star-wars-at-once-is-a-surrealist-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2015\/06\/17\/watching-all-of-star-wars-at-once-is-a-surrealist-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching all of Star Wars at once is a surrealist nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We understand that the <i>Star Wars<\/i> movies have exciting stories, loveable characters, and terrific sound editing. Forgive us if, for the remainder of the day, we remember it as a video art provocation that almost gave us a headache.<\/p>\n<p><i>Archer<\/i> animator Marcus Rosentrater created <i>Star Wars Wars<\/i> (embedded above), a mashup of all six of the current <i>Star Wars<\/i> movies into two hours of total cinematic chaos. Iconic scenes flit in and out of view, often covered by lightsabers, bright lights, sand dunes, or subtitles. Sound effects and now-incomprehensible dialogue slam together into a <i>Star Wars<\/i>-approximating white noise. People often lazy call any psychedelic or surreal experience a drug trip, but this is legitimately close.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy before it&#8217;s taken down&#8230; and grab some Motrin or Dramamine.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We understand that the Star Wars movies have exciting stories, loveable characters, and terrific sound editing. Forgive us if, for the remainder of the day, we remember it as a video art provocation that almost gave us a headache. Archer animator Marcus Rosentrater created Star Wars Wars (embedded above), a mashup of all six of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[329,377],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-star-wars","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}