CAAMI creates a relationship between the hermetic world of culture and television consumption, the sacred ambience of the museum and tele-shopping, in a video about the Atlantic Centre for Inflatable Modern Art, a parody of the culture industry and the television genre. 3 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1996.

Post-natal obsessions.

The voice of Catherine is recorded over manipulated images of women from soap operas. The two juxtaposed discourses, the voice of Catherine and the soap opera images, contradict and identify, confront and reach out, oppose and support each other. Feelings as primordial and sophisticated as life itself. 3 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1996.

Poetic-political inserts. Holzer uses the format and language of commercial advertising to interrupt the communication by kamikaze texts that are intended to stimulate thinking, raise your mood and a critical attitude among the passive audience. 3 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1996.

Anthem is a post-industrial lamentation, structured on the single piercing scream of a young girl as she stands in the vast chamber of Union Station in Los Angeles. Viola relates this structure to the form and function of religious chants, particularly Gregorian chants (using a harmonic scale in a resonant hall) and Tantric Buddhist chants (ritual exorcism and conversation with demons). The original scream is extended in time and shifted in frequency to produce a scale of harmonic notes that comprises the soundtrack, to which Viola juxtaposes images of materialism -- industry and the worship of the body, giant oil pumps and the beating human heart, cars streaming along a freeway and blood flowing through veins, modern surgical technology and tree branches in an ancient forest. The anguished scream cuts through the corporeality of the body and contemporary culture as a living organism. For Viola, the piece is a ritual evocation of "our deepest primal fears, darkness, and the separation of body and spirit."

... 3 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1996.