Michael Chernoff

Video Artist | Researcher | Educator


THE LIBERTARIAN (2022) Short Film






The Libertarian,at its core is “Silly.” It is short experimental film, focused on an isolated man, who is wearing a batman mask. He goes to a vacant building, hiding out to eat a meager meal in cold canned baked beans. While dining in the place for unknown reasons, he hears noises. He acts paranoid but does not leave? He absurdly stands his ground against another goofy assailant wearing a mask and claws. Often the subject of individualism, is posed as a problem in my fictional productions. In the case of libertarian believers, their ideology originates from a historical setting that is no different from the fantasies of action heros and comic book characters. Since the rise of Trump’s populism, I think this belief of danger as fantasy and spectale is more true than ever before. 




Genre: Comedy
Format: HD Digital Video – Color
Run Time: 4:25 min - Single Take
Themes: Toxic Individualism, Libertarianism, Action Hero Archetype

Cast: Famous Clark - Libertarian & Tim Georger - The Other Thing

Logline: A rugged individualist is eating his can of beans in a dilapidated building so that no one else will take away the meal. His mentality already tinged by paranoid anger further tints his colorful imagination when some “Other Thing” starts moving around and closer to his earned liberty of a private meal.

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Screening UB Center For The Arts (2021)