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THE EXPERIENCE

ON SCREEN: This Is Buzz

2026. Directed by Mark Pellington. Runtime: 000 minutes. 

In 1990 MTV aired BUZZ, a television experiment in non-linearity & cut-up collage that drew heavily from—and presented—culture, music, cinema, cyberpunk, the avant-garde, and postmodern literary figures. Notable contributors and subjects included William S. Burroughs, Jenny Holzer, Jaron Lanier, Timothy Leary, William Gibson and many others. BUZZ exploded minds, confused execs, and paved the way for the chaos we now consume on our screens.

THIS IS BUZZ is the kaleidoscopic story of this show’s radical redefinition of what news and media could be. A window into a pre-internet global age of tech euphoria that saw the world’s dystopian problems as a non-narrative vision, THIS IS BUZZ is led by hypnotic audio and a music driven phantasmagoria of ideas, words, sounds, images all juxtaposed for us to make of it what we could.

ON STAGE:

Mark Pellington

MARK PELLINGTON is an American filmmaker. He worked at pioneering video channel MTV from 1983–1990, winning awards as a promo producer and co-creating the seminal landmark TV image documentary series BUZZ . His video for Pearl Jam’s “Jeremy” won four MTV awards in 1993, including Best Director and Video of the Year. 

Pellington has also created over 100 iconic music videos and worked with such musical artists as U2, U2 ZOO TV , Pearl Jam, R.E.M., Bruce Springsteen, INXS, Alice In Chains, Demi Lovato, Imagine Dragons, Foo Fighters, Nine Inch Nails, Cage the Elephant, Linkin Park, Echosmith, The Fray, Dave Matthews, Michael Jackson, Public Enemy, Moby, Flaming Lips, Nada Surf, Damian Marley, Chelsea Wolfe and many more. He won a lifetime achievement award from the MVPA for videos in 2002