Category: Season #2 (1993 – 1995)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnrMsAvddcc Termite TV travels across India. A dancing camel accompanies us on our explorations of ghost rooms, ants, and termite mounds. Reflections on being a tourist in India are combined with Indian perspectives on being away from home. Produced by Termite TV Collective in 1994. Anula ShettyCoordinating producer Segment Video Artist Open with Termite Mounds…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q2vq53gntU Sacred Harp music in an Alabama church; singing vaginas and decomposing corpses set to original a Capella compositions and backwards classical pieces; conch shell sampling and songwriting made easy; even between modern-day Georges, Pauls and Johns (did Ringos ever count?); and the three best things about being a grown up, which, you guessed it,…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAoZVJ7Br1k    Was the world really created out of the secretions of white ants? Termite TV explores and creates connections between secrets and secretions. This show reveals the lesser known poetry of Jonathan Swift, gives a critical look to the photographs of Andres Serrano, and reflects on the stain of menstruation. No bodily fluid is…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRMdwZBzJnE Purring pets and bored grandmothers become bonded with the Id and the Ego through the forces of Animal Magnetism. But, tales of dead dogs and ducks reveal the tragic complications of inter-species love. What animal will you be reincarnated into? psst…Nicole’s dog knows O.J. did it. Coordinating producer Michael Kuetemeyer Segment Video Artist Collaborator…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zzYdDajJ3Y  When the promiscuous virgin visits the continents everyone contemplates their own virginity; how they lost it, what they gained and where to go from there. In India, the Promiscuous Virgin searches for the cosmic egg and finds a hairbrush instead… This show makes you wonder: Am I promiscuous or am I still a virgin?…

PROMISES, PROMISES The show is in the mail, along with girl scout oaths, student loan repayments, a cheap landlord, sweepstakes millions, religious covenants and the Contract on America. Termite TV wants to know: what have you done for us lately? Meryl Perlson Coordinating producer Segment Video Artist Collaborator Proxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 le Open Jim…

Ritual mongers and substance abusers will delight in this binge of obsessive activities. Bleed with the pain of ever picked toenails, buzz with caffeine from the almighty bean, wilt under the weight of thinking too much, and never, never change your morning ritual. The Surgeon General guarantees this show to be addictive. Meryl Perlson Coordinating…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHOmBV4js_E   Random Notes of Ragpicker Woman is an investigation of people’s ideasand memories about recycling. It explores recycling during times of war,depression and peace; as a form of protest, as an expression of guilt,as an offering of goodwill and an empty diplomatic gesture.

One hundred years after the overthrow of the Nation of Hawai’i, Kamaka’eha, a ceremony at the erupting Kilauea Volcano unifies the political struggle of native Hawaiians with the living land they fight to regain. This lyrical documentary blends traditional oral history with visual techniques drawn from still photography and video art. It interweaves the personal…

ORION CLIMBS combines colorized Pixelvision and standard Pixelvision interviews, video beamed from the space shuttle Discovery, and English language records from the 1940’s to explore the relationship between the maker and his family and friends utilizing a complex soundtrack and heavily layered images.