Carter Amelia Davis’s Homemade Gatorade + Andrew Culp and Thomas Dekeyser's Machines in Flames
Tuesday, April 28, 2026 at 7pm
Light Industry, 361 Stagg Street, Suite 407, Brooklyn
Homemade Gatorade, Carter Amelia Davis, 2025, digital projection, 9 mins
Machines in Flames, Andrew Culp and Thomas Dekeyser, 2022, digital projection, 50 mins
In the early 1980s, a series of coordinated attacks on computer centers occurred in and around Toulouse. A mysterious group successively vandalized and firebombed facilities run by Philips Data Systems, CII Honeywell-Bull, and Sperry Univac, among others. These actions were eventually claimed by an anonymous team of anarchists calling themselves le Comité pour la liquidation ou le détournement des ordinateurs (the Committee for the Liquidation and Subversion of Computers), or CLODO, an acronym that plays on French slang for hobo. “The truth about computerization should be revealed from time to time,” the gang’s alleged members claimed in a 1983 magazine interview, “By our actions we have wanted to underline the material nature of the computer tools on the one hand, and on the other, the destiny of domination which has been conferred on it.” Despite years of police efforts, CLODO was never caught, and its members were never identified. After a spurt of communiques, the group disappeared and was all but forgotten in the subsequent era of rising techno-optimism. Four decades later, researchers Culp and Dekeyser decided to pick up the trail, using digital tools made possible by the same systems that CLODO struggled against. Their resulting essay film, narrated by Dana Papachristou, meditates on the fugitive nature of radical archives in the online age, and reveals that CLODO may, in fact, have never ceased operation.
Paired in perfect spiritual alignment with Machines in Flames is a very different movie: Carter Amelia Davis’s hilarious hellscape Homemade Gatorade. Her animation follows Daniella, a single mom who sells and delivers the DIY brew of the title to a sketchy yet enthusiastic online customer, doomscrolling all the way. Its visual style, Davis has said, was “influenced by the digital grunginess of trans internet,” and it is distinctively, compellingly janky, with low framerates and deep-fried variegations, as well as a comic density that rewards repeat viewings—new jokes keep revealing themselves in the margins. “My goal,” Davis explained, “is always to have horror and comedy co-exist in a way that they influence each other. The funny things should make the horror feel worse.”
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