United States of America
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A cormorant, a revolving door, the sea, a jet plane. Sets of images and sounds recur in variation. New elements appear and enter into the variation.
UntitledVideo version of an interactive work caricaturing the idea of freedom of choice. The context is a series of test questions, but the answers are predetermined and in this case lead us to destruction by accumulation, exploitation, ... 3 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1996.
Untitled“The Urine Man, a longtime neighbor, agreed to be interviewed but with a great many stipulations. One of these was that he would only discuss his philosophical platform, and would not answer any questions. Nor were we to turn the camera on or off without permission. It became an enormous power struggle. Thus, this eloquent rant of the Urine Man's unique cosmology. Mysteriously, the Urine Man and his schoolbus/home disappeared the week after the filming, after being in the same location for at least ten years.”
Millner casts herself as a fan whose life has an uncanny similarity to that of Roseanne Barr's televised replica. When Millner visits the set of Roseanne, the "excess" of fan and star meets in a comic finale that threatens life as we know it.
Conversations with a Venezuelan squatting in Tompkins Square (New York).
Manipulation and experimental methods of contraception.
In the summer of 2006, a broad-based, non-violent, popular uprising exploded in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. Some compared it to the Paris Commune, while others called it the first Latin American revolution of the 21st century. But it was the people's use of the media that truly made history in Oaxaca. A Little Bit of So Much Truth captures the unprecedented media phenomenon that emerged when tens of thousands of school teachers, housewives, indigenous communities, health workers, farmers, and students took 14 radio stations and one TV station into their own hands, using them to organize, mobilize, and ultimately defend their grassroots struggle for social, cultural, and economic justice.
Lonely housewife in 1950's suburbia needs the freedom of a low priced Ford to avoid being a prisoner in her own home. (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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