PONY HOTEL
4k Digital video, 05:17, 2018.
PONY HOTEL braids together a tale of three ponytails: real, prop, and fantasy. The surreal short art-film is a blended montage of fantastical macro-scale studio footage and actual film footage VLM captured whilst traveling on business trips and documenting her 3ft ponytail prop inside various hotel rooms. In the culminating dream-inside-a-dream sequence, the film's physical picture plane is penetrated by a Dewalt drill that conjures the manifestation of a meta ponytail, The Rainbow Ponytail Supreme. All footage is original — produced, edited, and scored by VLM.


EXHIBITION HISTORY
• VLM: Screen Series, New Museum, NY, 2019.
• THE PONY HOTEL, Museum Folkwang, Germany, 2019.
• OPEN MIND, CRUSH Curatorial, NY, 2018.