the films of tom palazzolo

went to chicago this weekend and walked in the rainy cold to the art institute and saw the new modern wing and amazing impressionist art and charles ray’s hiroki and lewis baltz’s photography and ate a mediocre-but-cozy panini at the museum cafe and watched the surprisingly awesome films of tom palazzolo. whenever you walk into those little video rooms, you don’t really know what you’re getting into. but this was awesome. hilarious and poignant.

you can watch two of them online: “ricky and rocky” and this one, “jerry’s deli.” (maybe not as well served on a computer screen, but…still awesome.)