Country: USA
Format: 16mm film installation
Duration: Loop (until the film breaks)
Color
Silent
2006
Synopsis:
The idea here is to reproduce the American flag through the film apparatus making reference to Two Sides to Every Story (1974) by Canadian experimental filmmaker, Michael Snow. A waving screen aired by a fan for a flag; a light stand to recreate the flag post; and a slide of Jasper John’s painting of the American flag projected onto both sides of the screen on 16mm film. A reminder of the nonsensical efforts of filmmaking to create false realities on the one hand, and a comment on how ambiguous the apparently absolute and inherent sense of identity in a heavily charged nationalistic icon may turn out to be on the other.
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