Background needed for architectural snuff film. No small roles, only small parts. Los Angeles Contemporary Archives (LACA) presents "Brunt Drama," a new video installation by artist Matthew Lax. Androgynous figures struggle to execute various labors within a bleak, vacuous monoculture. Addressing the inherent violence of the real and the simulated, as well as the dubious pleasure of witnessing, narratives of safety, risk and use-value are tested via 3D-rendered, plastic surrogates. Choreographed motion-studies and textual, Brechtian vignettes produce alternative translations and behaviors, both acceptable and indecent. "Brunt Drama" manipulates the slipperiness of affect-inducing data visualizations intended to ameliorate fear into consumption – presenting a simulation of the unrepresentable, visible from both sides of the screen.