The Residents: Freak Show

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The Residents are an art & music collective, who began creating media around 1971. Originally purchased in New York, USA, this is a multimedia version of their 1990 album 'Freak Show'. You can navigate around the Freak Show and meet all of their Freaks, and view their music videos and information about the humans behind them.

This was the last publication on the Freak Show theme - a DVD was being developed around 2003, but animator Jim Ludtke sadly passed away, and the project was not resumed.

In the past, they had toyed with the idea of releasing a video game around their 1983 album, but this never came to fruition. They did however release a partially interactive LaserDisc in 1992.

The Residents also released a video game CD-ROM in 1994: The Residents' Bad Day on the Midway.

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The Residents' Freak Show CD-ROM transforms your computer into an amazing animated twilight zone, unlike anything you've ever experienced. Meet Tex the Barker, Herman the Human Mole, Harry the Head, Wanda the Worm Woman, Jelly Jack, Benny the Bump, and those freaks of contemporary art, The Residents. See their incredible performances and navigate through bizarre backstage worlds.

Freak Show's Big Top offers amazing spectacles, but the Freaks' stranger-than-fiction stories come magically to life when you sneak behind the circus tent and into their trailers. Discover fetishes, fantasies, rituals, and tragic secrets through photos, comics, music, music videos, and animation. You can even explore the history of freaks. Your fascination with "difference" will ultimately illuminate many other paths through this theme park of the imagination. Featuring spectacular animation design my Jim Ludtke, Freak Show is a revolutionary new audio-visual experience, envisioning the future of interactive stories, music video, and digital art.

The Residents, based in San Francisco, have created pioneering music, music videos and performance art since 1972. They are regarded as one of the world's most innovative audio-visual concept groups.

Jim Ludtke, also based in San Francisco, is an award-winning animator and illustrator whose work has been presented by a variety of venues including the Museum of Modern Art and Nickelodeon.