The camp sensibility of public access TV — typically unintentional — and the camp sensibility of ’60s underground cinema — totally intentional — collide with all the ferociousness of two freight trains ramming into each other at top speed in the night in The Threee Geniuses: The Re-Death of Psychedelia DVD.
The Threee Geniuses was a cult public access show produced for 10 years in L.A. by Dan Kapelovitz, Jon Shere and Tim Wilson. Although I haven’t watched a ton of public access, but I believe I can confidently say that no other public access show in the history of cable TV, in fact probably no other show in the history of television, period, ever looked like what the Threee Geniuses put on.
Maybe you haven’t seen much public access either, but you know the drill: Cheap video. Cheap, barren sets. Fringe characters either sitting in cheap chairs talking about monotonous subjects...
The Threee Geniuses was a cult public access show produced for 10 years in L.A. by Dan Kapelovitz, Jon Shere and Tim Wilson. Although I haven’t watched a ton of public access, but I believe I can confidently say that no other public access show in the history of cable TV, in fact probably no other show in the history of television, period, ever looked like what the Threee Geniuses put on.
Maybe you haven’t seen much public access either, but you know the drill: Cheap video. Cheap, barren sets. Fringe characters either sitting in cheap chairs talking about monotonous subjects...
- 2/6/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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