1989 | United States | Experimental

Video is Television?

  • English - 4 mins
  • Director | Antonio Muntadas
  • Writer | -
  • Producer | Caterina Borelli

STATUS: Released

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Playing back "visual quotations" of everything from Poltergeist to Blade Runner, Muntadas rescans the surface of the monitor, questioning the "nature" of media—film, television, video, and image. Television emerges as the medium to eat all mediums, raising the question: Is it possible,within the context of television, to tell art from life or fact from fiction? An endless row of generic TV monitors visually evokes a hall of mirrors as the expression of the cultural homogeneity and bland abundance achieved through the dominant medium of the late 20th century. Music composed by Glenn Branca.

Media Television Fragmentation Manipulation Spectatorship
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