KOVACS KORNER

It’s Friday which is Ernie Kovacs time as far as we are concerned. Today I offer up his ‘kitchen symphony’, a fascinating and somewhat disturbing exercise in joining the movements of inanimate kitchen objects with the space-pop music of the master Esquival. The video looks amazing–the actual texture of it, that is–and once again, as with the office furniture version of this which I posted a couple of weeks ago, one can only wonder at how this was accomplished in those very analogue times. Kovacs was constantly over budget, over schedule and abandoned by sponsors and networks. Somehow he kept finding fresh chances though and he never made any attempt to alter his work to fit in with the sensibilities of those who kept firing him. Which few can say…

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