Titles by Tommy Turner

Simonland

1984, 11:30 min, color, sound, Super 8mm film on video

In the unsettling, absurdist Simonland, made with Richard Kern, a grotesque, televangelist-style demagogue leads his studio audience and isolated viewers through a psychotic game of Simon Says, with twisted results. Regarded as one of the greatest films of the Cinema of Transgression, Simonland was preserved in 2016 by Fales Library and Electronic Arts Intermix through the National Film Preservation Fund's Avant-Garde Masters program.