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Videos
inside out: pregnant actresses playing nonpregnant characters
2009Inside out: pregnant actresses playing nonpregnant characters is created from apparopiated scenes from the 5 most popular American sitcoms at that time, showing scenes where their star actresses are pregnant while portraying non-pregnant characters. The clips are edited together in such a way that the actors have a conversation about balancing their professional and personal lives.
Added on: July 12, 2016
The Truth About Advertising
2011The truth about advertising is a dual-screen video juxtaposing and inflecting the near-identical opening scenes of “Boomerang,” (1992) starring Eddie Murphy, and “Nothing in Common,” (1986) starring Tom Hanks, both movies about greedy, womanizing advertising executives whose priorities are changed by the love of a good woman.
Added on: July 12, 2016
Reading Ed Ruscha
Reading Ed Ruscha is a single-channel video in diptych form, on the right showing images of text paintings by Ed Ruscha and on the left a pre-literate child who is “reading” the paintings based on their visual cues. Ruscha describes the text in his paintings as simple formal objects, calling them still lifes, “like flowers in a vase.” Because the 4-year-old depicted has not yet learned to read the words here, this video tests Ruscha’s assertion that the texts operate as formal and affective clues to the overall meaning of the paintings.Added on: April 9, 2021