Mario inherits the aesthetic: the puppet-film adaptation of 'The ONANtiad'

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texture · 8 Nov YDAU

When: shown 8 Nov YDAU (2009), Interdependence Day; the film "shot three summers back"
What: The oeuvre's living legacy. Mario's puppet-film — his "first halfway-coherent film cartridge," shot on Himself's Bolex — "really started out as just a kids' adaptation of The ONANtiad, a four-hour piece of tendentiously anticonfluential political parody long since dismissed as minor Incandenza." Per Hal, Mario "gets his fetish for cartridges about puppets and entr'actes and audiences from their late father." The son who traveled on JOI's location shoots (and who, with Joelle, keeps the Found Drama secret, event 4) carries the anticonfluential mode forward — warmer, shorter, but recognizably the father's. See the Mario timeline.