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18 minutes of industrial chaos under a bridge. You have NO idea what's coming.

Extremely Cruel Practices: A Series of Events Designed to Instruct Those interested in Policies That Correct or Punish

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Overview

Staged under the 4th St Bridge in LA. Sponsored by LACE. Featuring the one and only Pig-Pull, as well as Machines by Mark Pauline, Matt Heckert and Eric Werner.

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Standout Aspects

Practical Effects

Mark Pauline's machines are genuinely dangerous. No CGI, just gasoline and nerve.

Production

4th St Bridge becomes a character—grime, echo, industrial apocalypse.

Best for:Solo: Late night, headphones, questioning your sanity after.·Rewatch: Required. You'll miss half the machinery on first pass.
Heads up:Disturbing: Live animal performance (Pig-Pull). Not simulated. Extremely uncomfortable.·Violence: Machines designed to destroy things, including near-misses with humans.
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Director

Jonathan Reiss

Runtime18m
StatusReleased

Vibe

Pacefast
Intensityhigh
Tonedark
Feelheavy

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Cultural

This captures Survival Research Laboratories at their peak—before 'industrial' became a Spotify genre. Matt Heckert and Mark Pauline were building actual weapons for art.

Insight

The title's bureaucratic doublespeak ('Policies That Correct or Punish') directly mocks the Reagan-era prison-industrial complex that was exploding in 1987 Los Angeles.

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