Test Tube (1979)
28m
Running Time
January 1, 1979Release Date
Plot.
Produced by De Appel, Amsterdam, while General Idea was in residence there, Test Tube was conceived as a program for television. Presented under the brand "The Color Bar Lounge," a cocktail bar in the mythical 1984 Miss General Idea Pavilion, the program is a hybrid of popular television formats […] and infomercial. […] Advertisements for the bar are placed throughout the program; a loaded word choice, full of double-entendres and innuendo, betrays the influence of both Dadaism and consumerism. This collapse of popular and high culture is central to General Idea's agenda, as Felix Partz observes: "You know, the mass media are like a vast pharmaceutical complex developing new cultural elixirs of an unprecedented intoxication…but art remains a curious and elitist drink. Despite its unique flavor and heady cultural properties, it has never effectively been exploited."
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Cast & Crew.

AA Bronson
Himself

Felix Partz
Himself

Jorge Zontal
Himself

Marina Abramović

Titus Muizelaar

Wies Smals

General Idea
Director / Writer

Frits Oostvogel
Camera Operator
Details.
Release DateJanuary 1, 1979
StatusReleased
Running Time28m
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This Movie Is About.
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