Outlandish and captivating, Cosmic Generator is a roughly twenty-six-minute video shot partly in Mexicali, along the Mexico-US border. As in many of Rottenberg’s videos, scenes filmed on location are interspersed with those shot on sets of her own design. In the opening, the camera leads the viewer through tunnels ostensibly connecting the various funky workshops and restaurants shown later. The tunnel imagery immediately suggests the futility of the impending border wall with Mexico, which appears under construction in several above-ground shots in the work.

Generator Rex, an average teenager with the ability to turn his body into amazing machines, helps the secret organization Providence save the world from the nanite threat and dangerous EVO monsters.

No matter how old you get, life is just a 'dark history generator'?

After witnessing the alien abduction of her mother as a child, Aurora joins the UFO cult "The Cosmic Dawn". At the cult's remote compound Aurora experiences miraculous revelations, and consciousness-expanding flowers but all isn't as it seems with the cult's leader, Elyse. Now moved on from the cult, Aurora is forced to confront her past and pursue the ultimate truth about The Cosmic Dawn.

The first sequence of the Hearst Castle was rotoscoped from Steven Lisberger's film and animated in Cosmic Cartoon. Lisberger did much of the matte painting, figure rotoscoping and airbrush painting, and Eric Ladd did the Earth rotation animation.

In the tradition of The Twilight Zone, this bizarre, thought-provoking trilogy addresses the destiny of the world's minorities: Part I: A conservative African American politician must choose between his people's survival and appeasing his white colleagues when space aliens propose to share their profound knowledge in exchange for all black people on earth. Part II: The Virgin Mary's appearance in an inner-city housing project forces a Hispanic priest to face the hidden cultural origins of Western religion. Part III: On the dawn of the "Black Revolution," an African American couple discovers who the "real" enemy is.

The Cosmic Cafe Show, where the paranormal is normal.

The Cosmic Cafe Show, where the paranormal is normal.

A look at Danny Elfman's music for Men in Black II (2002)