Tuesday, January 02, 2007

New video: BRASIL REDUX

BRASIL REDUX (2006, 10'32", cor) is almost a ready-made that uses a publicity film about Brazil from 1948 as primary text. The video consists of the film being played backwards with additional sound that alludes to a machine's meltdown. For the author, the video is a meditation on the lost dream of Brazil as the country of the future, with the fading celluloid images presented in the documentary as a representation of nostalgia for a future that never was and never will be.











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