Two Moon July

The Kitchen, an avant-garde performance studio in New York City, is the scene for an hour's worth of experimental video, music, dance, and theater. The highlighted acts--David Byrne, Laurie Anderson, and Phillip Glass--are worthwhile. Byrne, lead singer of the Talking Heads and director of the recent True Stories delivers a mesmerizing rundown of movies playing in the big city; Anderson, who has toured the country with her multi-media presentations performs her hit "O Superman"; and Glass, a minimalist composer who has gained notoriety with both classical and pop buffs, does a nice piano piece. Everyone else, it seems, represents a quantum leap backwards in talent. Not only are the other performances extremely experimental (i.e. extremely personal; i.e. having very little to do with the rest of humankind), but the producers and stage hands are shown in between acts talking in endless non sequiturs which are supposed to be "heavy"--but really only succeed in raising the suspicion of double-digit I.Q.s. Not recommended. (Available from most large distributors.)