Part-animated screen ad for Esso "Extra" gasoline. (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.)
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The catalog of promises of a conservative American politician serves to affix some underwear as a souvenir. 3 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1996.
UntitledEvery Wandering Cloud is the first instalment in a series of experimental videos inspired by the writings of Oscar Wilde. Interweaving text from Wilde's “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” with hand-drawn animation derived from Edward Muybridge's “Human and Animal Location”, Every Wandering Cloud is a meditation on themes of freedom and imprisonment.
2 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1994.
Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream. Escape from Suburbia takes us “through the looking glass” on a journey of discovery – a sobering yet vital and ultimately positive exploration of what the second half of the Oil Age has in store for us. It deals with subjects such as urban density, local farming, industrial agriculture, overpopulation, renewable energies and the position of the United States Government.
UntitledThe artist simulates the faux-eruption of Mt. Rainier. It aims to amusingly dramatize the contrast between the crude attempt at simulation and the implacable power of the mountain, existing at anoher level of time and space. She also spoofs our desire to domesticate that which we cannot possibly control.
One of the episodes of the television pioneer, incredibly innovative and acid.
UntitledDocuments from the dark side of the empire. Government and corporate promotional material from military, pharmaceutical, digital and other mega industries...promoting them and their unspoken interests. A worrying promotional video of damage post-September 11, directed by Klaus Obermayer, in which revenge is encouraged by pushing the buttons of entrenched psycho-social cliches: virility, "they say Americans boys aren't hard enough", "24 hours a day, 7 days a week".
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