Virginia Lee Montgomery: PONY HOTEL, 2018

PONY HOTEL braids together a tale of three ponytails: real, prop, and fantasy. The surreal short art-film is a blended montage of fantastical macro-scale studio footage and actual film footage VLM captured whilst traveling on business trips and documenting her 3-foot ponytail prop inside various hotel rooms. In the culminating dream-inside-a-dream sequence, the film’s physical picture plane is penetrated by a Dewalt® drill that conjures the manifestation of a meta ponytail, The Rainbow Ponytail Supreme.