"Local Color is essayistic". The outlook is more open, the body is presented in context, the sculptural and architectural space becomes psychological.
United States of America
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"Common Knowledge". It focuses on the representation and the ego, always in the foreground, and the story is mysterious. The Red Tapes is the key work of Acconci, a kind of epic in three parts. Acconci tracing the topography of the self within a societal context (...) building in this search of self and America a dense, poetic text.
Millions of Americans have seen Rollen Frederick Stewart, a.k.a. “Rainbow Man”, who achieved notoriety during the late 70's by appearing in the crowd at thousands of televised sporting events wearing his trademark rainbow-colored afro wig. Later -after he became a born-again Christian- he added a sign reading “John 3:16”. Over the years, grabbing the attention of the media became an obsession for Stewart. He abandoned his home and marriage to roam the country living out of his car, studying TV Guide each week in a never-ending quest to stay televised...
UntitledSeven color film that explores the seduction of a generation of Americans through the glamour of the 50s and his obsession with the appearance of the object of consumption. Includes: "American Look" and the musical of General Motors, "Design for Dreaming".
An autobiographical tape about the mother-daughter relationship which explores their desire, house-works, illness, violence and the ways the social is inscribed in the body.
The Passing hauntingly travels the terrains of the conscious, the subconscious, and the desert landscapes of the Southwest, melding sleep, dreams and the drama of waking life into a stunning masterpiece. Viola, placed at the center of this personal exploration of altered time and space, represents his mortality in such forms as a glistening newborn baby, his deceased mother, and the artist himself, floating, submerged under water. Starkly yet poignantly rendered in black and white, The Passing re-enforces the notion of a permeable conduit between reality and surreality. An irrepressible soundtrack of Viola's labored breathing in sleeping and wakefulness serves to pull the viewer through an otherworldly topography. Amy Taubin of the Village Voice hails The Passing as "awesomely beautiful" and deems Bill Viola "a world-class video artist." She writes, "Some of the images... burst out of the darkness, shimmer and fade as radiant and ephemeral as shooting stars."
The presidential elections are over, but the real battle over Mexico's future is being fought outside of electoral politics. Two powerful figures have launched other kinds of political campaigns here. The multibillionaire Carlos Slim and the guerrilla leader Subcomandante Marcos are facing off in the struggle between the Mexico above and the Mexico below.
The Obama Deception is a hard-hitting film that completely destroys the myth that Barack Obama is working for the best interests of the American people. The Obama phenomenon is a hoax carefully crafted by the captains of the New World Order. He is being pushed as savior in an attempt to con the American people into accepting global slavery. We have reached a critical juncture in the New World Order's plans. It's not about Left or Right: it's about a One World Government. The international banks plan to loot the people of the United States and turn them into slaves on a Global Plantation. Alex Jones reveals who Obama works for, what lies he has told and his real agenda.