For Intermission, Brock transformed himself into Michael Jackson by means of a surgical mask and climbed a snow-covered tree overlooking a deserted lake. Silent-movie-style intertitles spell out lyrics from Jackson’s song “Childhood,” accompanied by a soundtrack combining Berlioz’s “Dies Irae” with snippets of parents and children talking about nature (given the video’s subject, their mention of vultures inevitably conjures pedophilia). Summoning up both innocence and loss, the video is like a Joseph Cornell box tinged with contemporary bile. In The Abandonments, Brock tap-dances with an umbrella under a digitally rendered thunderstorm to “Singin’ in the Rain,” a cross between Gene Kelly and a renegade from an insane asylum, dressed in top hat, goggles, and tails.