Below is a sampling of the news and magazine articles that featured the works by Robert and Donald Kinney. Click on the cover or "read more" link for a high-resolution scan of each article.
Thy Brother, Thy Self
by Dennis Harvey, The Daily Californian, April 1991
"Twins have always held a position of fascination and exploitation in popular culture. From the earliest manifestations through David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers, twins have been viewed as gifted/cursed with a sort of telepathic (and sometimes colorfully pathological) split soul with a secret language between themselves that we long to understand." (read more)
Double Vision
by Liz Kotz, The Advocate, July 1991
"I think of my aesthetic as having been influenced by Jean Genet and daytime television," remarks video maker Robert Kinney, who, with his twin brother Donald, has made a series of funny and very moving videos exploring gay identities and oppressively close relationships." (read more)
The Kinney Brothers
by David Hirsch, The Boston Reader, June 1993
"I feel like Sally Jessy Raphael when introducing videomakers Robert and Donald Kinney as identical twin gay brothers. Should I then describe some of their work, this titillating uneasiness remains, for in a series of videos produced between 1989 and 1991, the Kinneys unblinkingly examined taboos surrounding the psychological and sexual complexities of twinship." (read more)
Remapping Boundries
by Liz Kotz, Artists Space, March 1991
San Diego-based videomakers Robert and Donald Kinney work with masquerade and the subversion of gender roles, using them to explore the doubling and indistinctness of personal and cultural identities - in particular, the kind of loss-of-self present in oppressively-close familial or love relationships. (read more)
Hanging back
by Tom Sartini, Preview for the Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge, MA 1993
"Making a life for oneself as a gay man or lesbian in the rural parts of the Midwest is probably easier than it was, say, 20 years ago, but that doesn't mean that it's still not difficult. For gay-ghettoized Easterners, many of whom hail from the small towns and hamlets of the heartland, that part of America represents a childhood from which they couldn't wait to escape..." (read more)
In The Face of Demons
by Robert Kinney, FELIX: A Journal of Media Arts and Communications, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1995
"This article was originally produced, in part, as an oral presentation for the 1994 CAA Conference in New York City as part of the panel, "Now You See Me, Now You Don't: Lesbian and Gay Video," and the 1994 SPE Conference in Chicago for the panel, "Queer Collaborations." (read more)
On the Make: Activist Video Collectives
by Catherine Saalfield, Queer Looks, Routledge, 1993
This excerpt from Ms. Saalfield's writing highlights the work of Paper Tiger Television and Robert's work in the Southwest collective at the University of California, San Diego. (read more)
Demons - Zine, 1994
by Robert & Donald Kinney
This zine focuses on Demons as a Queer video project. Demons was the our first iteration exploring the work of Kineido Shindo's Onibaba and was produced in Iowa City, IA in 1994. The second production was retitled Pigs and was produced in 2004. As the writers, producers, and directors of all our productions, we understand the interest in our work in the past has been (more often than we'd like to admit) subject to the fascination with us as Queer twins. (read more)