23 minutes of machines eating each other alive in the desert.
Survival Research Laboratories' fiery show in Phoenix. Staged Jan. 28, 1996. 23 minutes of hell on earth.
Practical Effects
Every flame, every shredded metal bit—100% real, zero CGI.
Direction
Scardina captures the beautiful ugliness without sanitizing a thing.
Director
Dave Scardina
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Survival Research Laboratories pioneered industrial performance art in the 1980s, influencing everything from Burning Man culture to modern combat robotics.
Mark Pauline famously lost two fingers to an early rocket malfunction and kept performing—his prosthetic modifications became part of the show's mythology.
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