Inconsequential Doggereal (2022)

Initially created as an editing exercise for his students at UCSD Jenkins Inconsequential Doggereal mixes poetic narrative fragments of selfshot footage with moments ripped from the unending flow of TV news advertising and entertainment The images and sounds of mainstream television are jammed freezeframed looped overlaid and rewoundclips of science documentaries movies broadcast on TV nightly news commentary on the minimum wage and a 60 Minutes style interview with the actor Peter Sellers are all jumbled together Jenkins interjects several original threads which show pickup football games gone wrong a young white couple doing chores and hanging out at home and Jenkins himself laying on a green suburban yard as a lawnmower moves perilously close to his body