When I feature something on the blog called Population: One, you’d be forgiven for immediately thinking that this would have some form of
I am Legend connection. It doesn’t.
Population: One is a surreal piece of eighties video art, rather than a film, directed by Rene Daalder and released in 1986. It featured artist and lead singer of LA Punk Band the Screamers Tomata Du Plenty as himself. The last survivor of a nuclear war – or the sole survivor of a mass suicide pact, as he puts it. He offers a psychedelic and surreal history of the USA told through song and featuring himself and Sheela Edwards.
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| Jazz Vampire |
It is down to Sheela Edwards that this film gets its mention, as we meet her through the song Jazz Vampire, a song that sees her donning fangs in the worst 1980s MTV sort of way, as well as a crap bat. The whole piece is a bizarre journey powered by performance art that could only have been conceived of in the eighties, clothed in a mad collage of video.
The imdb page is
here.
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