AUDIO VISUAL MAGICK

“ART SHOW” 2015

42ND NORTHWEST FILM FESTIVAL FEATURE

‘DaisyHeroin, creating stop-motion videos that, with their surreal irreverence for pop-culture effluvia and high art, recall the work of Paper Rad, Black Dice, and Monty Python’s Flying Circusanimator Terry Gilliam. Dawson’s style of jerky movements, stream of hallucinatory absurdities, and stimuli overload complements the clips’ supremely strange and abstract electronic music, which he also composes under the handle T.” - THE STRANGER

“ONEONEONE” 2015

SECRET PLACE FESTIVAL PARIS SELECTION

Daisy Heroin, an artistic nom de plume of Colin Dawson, guitarist of Seattle band Stickers and formerly Haunted Horses. Daisy Heroin could very well become a solo musical project for Dawson, but for now he’s bringing his Terry Gilliam-esque cutouts to music videos from Poseurs, VHS and other weird art projects. - HOMETOWNSOUNDS DC

“TENET” 2016

Colin Dawson is evolving into one of Seattle’s most interesting double-threat artists. While many know him as the guitarist for wiry neo-no-wave group Stickers, Dawson also has been creating bizarre animated films under the Daisy Heroin handle, including Tenet and Art Show, which screen tonight. His visual MO is surrealism run amok: pop-culture détournement, hilariously illogical nightmare scenarios, frequent defacements and decapitations, and weird shit streaming from eye sockets. Daisy Heroin’s imagery is geared to freak you out and laugh yourself comatose, and his accompanying electronic soundtracks under the name T equal the visuals’ hallucinogenic preposterousness. - THE STRANGER