Created for Bravo! Channel, "Slave to another God" is a short subject film about the life and work of painter Joel Alden Kingston. Exploring the processes in the creation and exhibition of his artwork, the film relies heavily on a dream like atmosphere that blurs the lines between the artist's reality and his imagination. This self-portrait film brings the viewer inside the life of the artist as he strives and struggles to create his fantastic art.

"Slave to another God" was one of 16 winning videos selected for broadcast in the Worldviewer interactive display in "Workspheres" at the Museum of Modern Art - New York, February through May, 2001.

The process of inspiration, creation and exhibition is a continual cycle for artists. Always exploring and examining the world around them, artists take inspiration from life, while the creation of the actual work involves sacrificing their life and their time for the art.
Artists struggle to accomplish the finished work, on their own terms, or rather, terms the work has created for them. The exhibiting of finished artworks is like a performance where the performer is absent. The paintings act as a substitute for the artist, as though the art hangs as a record of the long hours of tireless work and fidelity.

Slave to another God is an exploration of the artist and art form relationship. The title is taken from the first painting to appear in the video, a picture of a sleeping man floating above a cloudy red metropolis. This video captures the experience of sustained allegiance to a singular vision and the roll of the artist working to bring that vision into existence.