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# Confessions of a Sociopath, and other provocations

**Brand:** joe gibbons
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"Shooting on location in Cambodia I contracted a case of tapeworm. When it made itself known after returning to the States, instead of having it removed I have kept it inside me, assuaging my ever-present sense of loneliness." Also featuring ‘The Tutor’ by Emily Breer (2007), Confidential P.2 (1980), The Florist (2010), Driving/Rain (2010), and Sabotaging Spring (1991). Joe Gibbons has received fellowships and awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the NY State Council on the Arts, the Creative Capital Foundation, The LEF Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. He has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in NY, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Centre Pompidou, and other venues. His work has been chosen for the Whitney Biennial, the NY Video Festival, the Rotterdam Film Festival, and the Black Maria Film and Video Festival. "Confessions of a Sociopath” (2001) was included in "Best Films of the Year" lists in Film Comment and Artforum magazines. "Joe Gibbons, whose investigations of his own addictions, obsessions, and general lapsed-catholic-with-a-vengeance amorality confound documentary and fiction, true confession and wild fantasy. Gibbons’s magnum opus is Confessions of a Sociopath (2002)." - Artforum "Joe Gibbons' rough-and-ready video monologues...show an artist baring his id, his criminal record and fondness for drink, and an often acerbic sense of humor." - New York Times

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Five Stars
  

*by Z***A on Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2015*

Loved the movie

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A word of caution, a word of warning
  

*by F***E on Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2012*

A word of caution, a word of warning: This volume should be prohibited to the weak-willed, the faint-of-heart, and the well-behaved (Gibbons would pistol-whip me if he found out that I had used - unintentionally, mind you - a cheap device like the alliteration that mars the beginning of this review).This is a DVD I would wholeheartedly recommend to deathbed atheists and foxhole converts alike; certainly to those practitioners of the dark arts of psychiatry and psychotherapy, and no less to open-minded jurists, district attorneys, and mental health workers. These videos are the products of the artist's research over many years into the dark recesses of human behavior. Disdaining the artifice of "acting," the filmmaker cultivates mental aberrations and psychic disorders that express themselves in behaviors and actions followed to their logical, chilling conclusion.For this fearless method he has paid a heavy price: legally, socially, professionally, and personally. But through these signal states a profound truth emerges (I hope he never reads this review - he slapped me once for using the word "truth"). For only through sickness can we know what true health is, to paraphrase the late, great existential philosopher George Kuchar.Confessions of a Sociopath is necessarily a work-in-progress, because the artist, a man who cultivates sickness like a horticulturist cultivates orchids, understands that to effect closure is to sign his own death warrant. And there you have a metaphor that would make the artist cringe. Because in this DVD you will find not a single metaphor: that tired poetic trope, that quaint linguistic conceit that communicates only a poverty of direct expression.Each video plays out a particular psychopathology. See if you can guess what they are. But let me reiterate my warning: these aberrant states are highly communicable!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Some provocative pieces
  

*by M***U on Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2012*

Joe Gibbons films are almost always funny, thought-provoking, transgressive, crypto-autobiographical, strange, and technically interesting. This 2-hour disc features films representing some 30 years of his work. For me the best here is the title piece, a sort of lightly fictionalized autobiography involving art theft, alcohol, book theft, heroin, filmmaking, unpaid bills, Spalding Grey, and parole officers. The actual film clips were shot over 20 years or so. Other tracks include Joe inculcating genius in a young child; confiding in his camera; punishing flowers; and peering through rain-covered windshield. Good stuff!

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