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Photographed at the New York World´s Fair. (The Prelinger Archives are a source of educational material, mainly ordered by theme, giving a vision of the dark side, the underbelly, perhaps naive of the American dream and the America that is often hidden behind the media curtain.)

In Holobomo, images and sounds are borrowed from blank-and-white films in order to compose a new narrative. Video artist Owen Eric Wood takes this material from the work of Toronto-based filmmaker Mike Hoolboom, who regularly employs the act of appropriation in the construction his films. As such, Holobomo is a second-generation appropriation, raising issues of the degradation of meaning as images are taken out of context and recycled. The artist projects moving images on himself and a sculpture of himself to bridge the gap between two-dimensional image and three-dimensional space. In so doing he asks viewers to consider their own relationship with images and how images influence memory, perception and the way we experience life.

An overview of three classic clichés of tourism and pilgrimage: Jerusalem, Florence and Las Vegas. The first is barely coping under pressure, the second suggests a "theme-park" world, while the third....Las Vegas has all the answers. Inspired by the quote from St. Francis of Assisi, ?you are what you are seeking,? award-winning filmmaker Randi Steinberger set out to document her observations and those of the contemporary traveler. Shot entirely in the three mythic cities of Jerusalem, Florence and Las Vegas, tourists, guides and experts reveal a subtle contradiction between the modern pilgrims? anticipated expectations and their actual experiences. What we seek can be as profound as a religious epiphany, as superficial as a successful shopping spree, or as life changing as winning the big jackpot. Throughout we are subtly reminded that if we journey to seek change, we should remember to pack our sense of humor.

Through metaphoric and material representation, video essay Hit-to-kill emphasizes political and strategic elements of the deployment of U.S. antimissile shield in Eastern Europe entailing dialogue between concepts such as security, global dominance, democracy, disinformation, propaganda and resistance.