Stom Sogo

A video mixtape made up of Sogo's most enduring aesthetic and experiential preoccupations, full of flickering light, electronic vibrations and a total submission to noise, ecstatic and pure. Made as a personal gift before the artist's untimely death.

"Try was originally shot on Super-8mm film and then re-shot on video. The idea was to have the image of young kids kissing forever. Ecstasy here is so wasted." (Stom Sogo)

Re-edit of earlier Super8 home movies with a melancholic soundtrack. One of Stom's last completed works prior to his death.

"A vaporous, stop-motion continuum of barely legible images dynamized by a pulsating electronic soundtrack. Although he draws on a bunch of avant-garde classics from Ernie Gehr’s Reverberation to Brakhage’s hand-painted films, Sogo’s voice is assured and all his own." (Amy Taubin)

Short film by Stom Sogo dealing with ambient topologies and malleable forms.

Video by Stom Sogo.

"It's all coming out of Mexico. Surreal gets so real. And invader from England, France or Spain found the taste of cactus cocktail. That makes this movie sweat, ha?" (Stom Sogo)

"He stole her girlfriend, and never said thank you for that. super self centered I will pay for that. I did it all. No I won't pay for that. To you NEVER. You did nothing. It's all your fault. I told all my friends how shitty you are. And no, I won't pay for that. You really didn't do nothing. I didn't like your films. Same things over and over again. Label starts walking by itself. You always talk about drug. Stupid shouck value vs. scummy elite attitute. Expressing bullshit psych. You ended up saying the words that you know; society, culture, people and art, ya, fuck sake. Then, closer always gets used, and you act like an asshole, whole equally wasted, isn't that big anyway..." (Stom Sogo, 2002 NYUFF program notes)