Alive from Off Center S02 E08 Young Video Artists

In "The Nose Knows," Teddy Dibble sniffs several microphones, selects one, and mouths the words to an instrumental of "The Girl from Ipanema"; in "A Scar-y Story," he incredulously describes a strange condition afflicting his face, as bandages accumulate on it; and in "The Sound of Music," he sits alone at a desk, answers a phone, and repeatedly puts the caller on hold. In the Yonemotos' "Vault," a florid, melodramatic send-up of television and film cliches, a young couple plays out their romance in a mixture of Bergmanesque flashbacks and soap opera parodies. In "Perfect Leader" by Max Almy, a man is manipulated via a computer program into the ideal politician for the modern media age. In the final piece, "From Hippie to Yuppie" by Ben Bergery, a series of paired phrases appear on screen in colourful graffiti, reflecting the life journey of sixties generation.