Unsettling and aesthetic images of fashion as religion, and those who serve it.
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This is the memory of a journey from the heart of an inhabited wilderness . People overwhelmed by the color of the clouds, holes in the sky to another site. An inappropriate vehicle for the place rolling toward the direction of the emotions unleashed: the experience minutes before the cyclone.
Molotov is subMedia's first zine. 8 1/2 by 11 pieces of paper photocopied and folded in half with angry email rants, DIY articles, fake discount cards and explorations into American pop culture. Includes the short films: What Barry Says, From The Fry Daddy, Join the Resistance: Fall in Love, Why I Love Shoplifting..., Bush Boys, Taking Back Action, Whirlmart: Ritual Resistance, I am Produced and Consumption.
UntitledIssue two of subMedia's Molotov takes on the issue of intellectual property.
UntitledThis documentary film explores how an ambitious young man overcomes a mental defect and becomes "a good man." Using editing techniques, the dreams, ideals and problems of a large segment of the American male population is being explored. The soundtrack is of DEVO Orchestra.
Shot with a wireless miniature camera, this film contrasts the intended use of the CCTV technology (the monitoring of space) with its creative re-purposing (the production of ‘expressive' shots). The surveillance of the artist in dehumanising overhead shots is juxtaposed with the artist's appropriation of the technology to create an abstract microscopic landscape. The overhead gaze of the CCTV camera obscures the signs of the artist's subjectivity (by concealing his face), and objectifies him as a result; the stop motion makes him robotic. In contrast, the expressionistic imagery supposedly embodies his personal vision. Of course, the distinction between the two types of footage becomes complicated through the film. The CCTV material has formal or aesthetic qualities of its own, and may be as expressive of the claustrophobia and isolation of the character as the microscopic imagery. The work contrasts the banality of everyday activity and the constraint of domestic space with the imaginative possibilities of creativity. The body of the protagonist, enclosed by furniture and limited to a few repetitive functional gestures in the CCTV footage, is able to transcend this physical state with the camera, which seems able to go anywhere and shoot at any angle.
Monument Valley uses archival images from various sources, images related to the famous south-western USA landscape and tourist attraction, tourists and fragments from classic Western films. This video blurs the boundaries between past and present.
The short documentary, MORNING: September 11th, begins on a normal day on September 11th in Staten Island. Commuters went to work via the Staten Island ferry, reading the paper, and drinking their morning coffee. Suddenly, life changed forever, as residents of Staten Island watched in horror, looking across the bay to Manhattan after two planes hit the World Trade Center towers. “MORNING: September 11th” documents the shocked and quiet reactions of Staten Island Residents, as they listened to “1010 Wins” newscasters in disbelief report the collapse of the twin towers, as Manhattan billowed smoke across the bay.
UntitledHow the all-electric home emancipates women: a drama of how the women in the family manipulate their men to upgrade the laundry facilities. (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.)
UntitledMotherhood on Trial looks at public reaction to the case of Susan Smith/ the young mother who confessed to drowning her two sons in a South Carolina lake after claiming they were abducted by a black man. The documentary combines multiple layers of audio and video to create a complex tapestry of sound and image that emphasizes the complexity of the issues and explores how the background/ experiences and agenda of each character influences his or her telling of the story.
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