He’s the Hot Dog Man of Durham, NC, and a cultural symbol of… what exactly? Is he an advertisement? A pop-art exploration of suicide? A symbol of the ongoing struggle with racism in America? Or something else? One thing for sure is that the Hot Dog Man makes for compelling web video, which is why he’s our first ever “Web Reel”—a weekly installment of entertaining or provocative or meaningful or bizarro or all of the above moving pictures available on the web. Enjoy.

To view, get yourself over to the Flux website here and click on the thumbnail of the Hot Dog Man, one of the Flux’s feature short films.