About this episode

The episode explores Gabe Bartalos' unique artistic vision through a surreal narrative filled with bizarre characters and themes.

Gabe Bartalos gave us the Christmas gift that keeps on giving: a wild ride inside his traumatized dream-art. You got your dreamscape classics, boning a lady covered in bones, being rescued by stop-motion hair-stick-guys, wine-guzzling cigar cops, sexually abusive uncles with mega-demon pants-junk, Andy Jackson and Abe Lincoln teaming up against Benny Franklin to symbolize... maybe people with less money rising up and destroying the rich? Why did the man with no legs pour salt in the open wounds of the woman whose legs he just destroyed with his salt-delivery van? Join us for a freakishly muscular, if short, episode of Loathsome Things: A Podcast Trying to Understand Art Films, But Not Arthouse Films!... or something...

People in this episode

Host: loathsomethings

Topics covered

• horror films
• art films
• dreamscape
• satire
• social commentary

Keywords

• Gabe Bartalos
• horror
• art films
• dreams
• satire
• social issues

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