Synopsis
"Electronic Hollyweird" plays less like a conventional narrative than a stylized audiovisual showcase for Video Violence's electronic sound. The imagery presents the project through a dark, synthetic and deliberately mysterious visual world, matching the act's masked identity and futuristic presentation. Rapidly changing digital compositions and performance-oriented images keep the focus on atmosphere, rhythm and visual texture rather than character development or a clearly defined storyline. The result is a compact piece of electro-industrial world-building centered on Video Violence's fictionalized, media-saturated aesthetic.
Factoids & Trivia
- Video Violence was an international audiovisual project associated with Sebastian Fronda and Daniele Manoli. Fronda handled the music, while Manoli was responsible for the project's visual content.
- The project came from Sweden and was described in contemporary coverage as an electro act with dancefloor appeal. Other listings place its sound across electro house, electronica, dubstep and industrial-influenced wave.
- "Electronic Hollyweird" was featured by the music blog Off the Radar on August 23, 2011. The post presented it as a video for a track from the group's debut album, "Medulla Oblongata."
- The official video was also archived on the artists' PromoDJ page, where it appeared alongside other Video Violence clips and a remix credited to the project.
- "Medulla Oblongata" was released in 2011 and served as the main album statement for Video Violence's short-lived creative universe.
- Video Violence was active from approximately 2010 to 2012. The audiovisual collective was subsequently disbanded, leaving "Electronic Hollyweird" as part of a brief but distinctive period of masked, internet-based electronic performance art.