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How does one deal with what one sees? is the question which provided the starting point for this videotape. The literal superabundance of images coming at us through the media eventually kills all emotions. However, we keep smiling, even if it is wryly. "Amusing ourselves to death", Neil Postman dubbed this television-consumer behaviour, but that is only one aspect of this production. In a highly personal de-montages of images from our collective media-memory Fiona Tan shows us the helplessness which is all that is left to the viewer. Like a worn-out and broken zapper Tan strings together images of starving African children, Laurel & Hardy, MTV & CNN, Miss World, Vietnam and Bosnia, Star Trek, porn stars, war and yet more war and Madonna. The stream of images is alternated with static portraits of a painfully laughing woman, for after all, how does one deal with what one sees?
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Erik Quint
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Music: Gregory Whitebread, Dedicated to: Ciro Jamarco
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