Smoove

1996-2003, 2:24 min, color, sound

In Smoove, Arcangel satirizes the music video form, in particular the use of women to sell the music product. Arcangel presents a hyper-kinetic teenage girl, whose stylized, flailing mimicry of the kinds of dancing that one might see in a music video, combined with her insistent, near-manic smile, threatens to overturn the carefully controlled conventions of the genre.