Review by Joshua Gravel |
Produced by Andrea Marini, Judy Drosd
Directed by Andrea Marini
Featuring Joey Skaggs, Robert Forster,
Peter Maloney, Sarah Kit Farrell, Jeff Cohen,
Mark Borkowski, Richard Johnson, Sara Jones,
Jennifer “Jen” Miller, Buck Wolf, Charlie Todd,
Larry Croft, Kate McCamy, Richard Wilde
Joey Skaggs may not be a household name but he has been a notable figure in the field of pranks as performance art for decades now.
After the mass media either misunderstood or intentionally mis-reported an anti Vietnam war protest piece he created as some strange “love in” during which people were arrested for littering Skaggs decided that the target of his future performance pieces would be the media themselves.
Since the mid seventies Skaggs has been concocting strange products, situations, and characters which he has tricked numerous legitimate news services into reporting as fact and then usually exposes the situation as a hoax shortly after to embarrass them.
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