Batman Home Movies
is amateurish in the way that old Batman theater serials used to be. In the way that the Adam West Batman used to be.
What does it mean when a consumer is able to produce something like this? Something about its off-handedness makes it seem more significant than the more professional fan films that have been produced: the sense that literally anyone can participate in Batman as a network, and publicize it widely, and can do so cheaply.
And I love the almost punk aesthetic of it: a Batman thoroughly entrenched on the West Coast, living in an apartment, detached from Gotham City as a concept, and subject to DC/Time Warner cease-and-desist at any moment.
Is this pastiche? Is this folk art? Is this piracy?
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