Photograph by Dustin Lucas
“This is a good one,” says Atnas, the fluorescent light in Globe Drug playing off her glossy green bob. She holds up a bottle of Shout. “’Cause sometimes you gotta just… ARRRGHH!” She recommends Glass One for unification, and Faultless Starch to chase “this concept of being wrong all the time.” Atnas (played by artist Lyndsey Scott, above) is Santa’s perpetually 23-year-old daughter, who has a fondness for cleaning supplies and spandex bodysuits. “As interested as my dad is in the doling-out process,” she tells the camera, “I’m interested in the cleaning-up process.” Sometimes that takes the form of “encounters with amazing life-forms and effective products,” at Globe Drug; other days, she may just show up to humbly take out the garbage. Written and directed by artist Kelsey LaPoint and shot by local filmmaker Rebecca Rivas, this experimental (but still story-driven, still funny) faux doc is the holiday special you wish they’d rerun on network TV.
“Atnas: An Experimental Video Story” Regional Arts Commission 6128 Delmar December 2–4, 7:30 p.m. $15, $7 for students and artists
