| JUKEBOX curated by LIZ HUGHES presented by EXPERIMENTA, Australia Beauty Kit Pleix, France, 2002, 2�17 mins This series of four seductive and shocking advertisements predict a terrifying future where plastic surgery is becoming normal even for little girls. Using slick marketing and sophisticated technology to sell rhinoplasty and brest augmentatoin, it ironically advises that kids should no longer wait for mother nature. Plaid: Itsu Pleix, France, 2002, 3�30 mins This work is a parable of our consumer society whose obsessions with sex and the bottom line are spinning out of control. The endless possibilities of scientific discovery sends the cast on an ecstatic journey to the limits of reality. The result is wild corporate gluttony, where bigger is better, and the boundaries between aggressive business and carnal pleasure are blurred. You are here Bull.Miletic, Australia, 2001, 5�41 mins You are here depicts Death Valley�s Racetrack dry lakebed, where rocks weighing hundreds of pounds inexplicably move, sometimes several hundred feet across the surface of dry silt. The work questions our true position in the world and our understanding of nature through scientific explanations. See Saw David McDowell, Australia, 2002, 2�49 mins This animation alludes to a sense of loss of one's bearings in the world, or loss of the ability to interpret those bearings. It suggests a condition of being on a passage, but a passage during which the comprehension that the passage itself has a destination has collapsed: the passenger becomes prisoner of the passage. S-Crash Lindsay Cox and Victor Holder, Australia, 2002, 3 mins In this split-screen comic scenario the inescapable nature of noise has horrendously funny consequences. An urban battle between human and technology ensues when a paper thin wall between the cramped apartments of an ambitious DJ and his irritable neighbour reverberates with loud repetitive beats. 9 to 5 City Shunt Michael Eyre, Australia, 2002, 2�25 mins A glimpse at the drudgery of urban life. Programmed by the promises of the corporate world, these automatons in suits are herded through a multi-coloured cityscape with unthinking obedience. |
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