(2010, 12:00, digital video/found footage)

A loving remake of Bruce Conner’s seminal 1958 found footage film A Movie using appropriated material from YouTube and LiveLeak. As a remake, the video provides a parallel narrative that explores the changes in historical and visual icons from 1958 to 2010 – and those images that remain surprisingly, and delightfully, the same. The work also comments on the pervasiveness of footage available for appropriation in an online world, and the way disparate threads in the YouTube and LiveLeak databases can be assembled to create “a movie.”

Not currently available to view online.

Screenings:
Festival of (In)Appropriation, L.A. Filmforum, Los Angeles, CA, September 2010
Dallas VideoFest, Dallas, TX, September 2010
Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada, October 2010
Oxford Film Festival, Oxford, MS, February 2011
Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, IL, February 2011
Fargo Film Festival, Fargo, ND, March 2011
Media City Film Festival, Windsor, Ontario, May 2011
Migrating Forms Film Festival, New York, NY, May 2011
Another Experiment by Women Festival, New York, NY, May 2011
University Film and Video Association conference, Boston, MA, August 2011