1985, USA
12′
DOP, dir: Ken Camp

Shock Video, edited from footage shot for the as-yet-unfinished horror film After the Comet, shot on Super 8, is a disturbing reflection of the filmmaker’s life in San Francisco in the second half of the 1970s — a period that witnessed not only the heyday of the gay liberation movement, but also the kidnapping of Patricia Hearst, the mass suicide in Jonestown, a series of bombings by the New World Liberation Front, the murder of Harvey Milk, and several serial killers targeting gay men, such as the Doodler and the Freeway Killer. Camp, who originally edited the film and converted it to video for screening at the legendary Theoretical parties of Los Angeles DJ and promoter Jim Van Tyne, considers Shock Video to be something of a trailer for After the Comet and a work in its own right.