{"id":133,"date":"2016-10-10T00:04:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=133"},"modified":"2026-09-30T10:27:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T09:27:36","slug":"wheeler-winston-dixon-serial-metaphysics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=133","title":{"rendered":"Wheeler Winston Dixon &#8211; Serial Metaphysics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/03_2006\/wheeler_winston_dixon\/serial_metaphysics1.mp4\" target=\"_blank\"><img src='http:\/\/dvblog.org\/wp-content\/images\/serial_metaphysics1.jpg' width=\"320\"  alt='Serial Metaphysics'\/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/03_2006\/wheeler_winston_dixon\/serial_metaphysics1.mp4\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Serial Metaphysics #1<\/em> (1984-86, clip, 6.4MB, 1:08 min)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/03_2006\/wheeler_winston_dixon\/serial_metaphysics2.mp4\" target=\"_blank\"><img src='http:\/\/dvblog.org\/wp-content\/images\/serial_metaphysics2.jpg' width=\"320\"  alt='Serial Metaphysics'\/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/03_2006\/wheeler_winston_dixon\/serial_metaphysics2.mp4\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Serial Metaphysics #2<\/em> (1984-86, clip, 5.9MB, 1:08 min)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wheeler_Winston_Dixon\" target=\"_blank\">Wheeler Winston Dixon<\/a> is now a professor of film studies<br \/>\nat the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Before he did that he made<br \/>\na lot of (on the evidence of these clips &#038; others) really great short movies.<br \/>\nIn particular these two clips from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hi-beam.net\/mkr\/wd\/wd-bio.html#Serial%20Metaphysics\" target=\"_blank\">Serial Metaphysics<\/a>, apparently almost<br \/>\nentirely constructed from TV ads, whet the appetite for a viewing<br \/>\nof the whole twenty minutes.<br \/>\nDixon conjures fever dream magic from commercial banality.<br \/>\nCheck in particular the end sequence of clip one:<br \/>\nDavid Lynch eat your heart out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serial Metaphysics #1 (1984-86, clip, 6.4MB, 1:08 min) Serial Metaphysics #2 (1984-86, clip, 5.9MB, 1:08 min) Wheeler Winston Dixon is now a professor of film studies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Before he did that he made a lot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=133\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,17,24,14,127,9,126,43,35,28,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-community","category-documentary","category-experimental","category-fantasy","category-film","category-memory","category-portraiture","category-remix","category-tv","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11623,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/11623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}