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Final Exit

Joe Gibbons

2001 00:05:00 United StatesEnglishB&WMono4:3Pixelvision video

Description

In Final Exit, an aged one is confronted with his options in blunt terms. Does he want to drag out his existence, increasingly infirm and a burden to his caretakers, or go quietly before resentment overwhelms sentiment? Does he wish to go on living, the quality of his life increasingly diminishing, or be euthanized? Would he prefer cremation or burial? This video confronts the issues of mortality and advancing decrepitude that faces even the friskiest.

Joe Gibbons conveys his dry humor through obsessive monologues that scrape the bottom of a monomaniacal mind—spilling forth with fantasies of power, destruction, and death. In his videos, the hand-held camera allows Gibbons's alter-ego to surface as he gives vent to tyrannical rants that comically invert social values.

Also see: 

Joe Gibbons: An Interview