Pickle Surprise: '80s uber-campy video art by Tom Rubnitz


Where's the pickle? That's the surprise! Youtuber mrpussypants (who has uploaded an amazing '70s-'80s video collection) explains:

Directed and produced by Tom Rubnitz in 1989, "Pickle Surprise!"(1989) is a perfect example of the wickedly-whacked-world-view that those demented denizens at the Pyramid Club could conjure from the ether after just a few rounds of cocktails and a big ole spliff.

Video Link (1:25). The lovely and fabulous RuPaul appears in that short — for a related internet gem, check Ru out in this 1980 Atlanta cable access dance-off program: Video Link (4:22).

And check out another Rubnitz short that recently popped up on YouTube, "Strawberry Shortcut": Video link (0:39).

Video Data Bank has much more of his work here: Link. Here he is interviewing the B52s: Link. Rubnitz died of AIDS in 1992. (Thanks Gabriel Padoan)