[spectre] Best of Luck with the Wall (variant) by Garrett Lynch & Frédérique Santune

[Garrett Lynch]

Announcing a new collaborative work by Garrett Lynch & Frédérique Santune

Best of Luck with the Wall (variant)
http://www.asquare.org/best-of-luck-variant/

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In Josh Begley's film, Best of Luck with the Wall (2016), a comment on the
proposed border wall between the US and Mexico by American President Donald
Trump, Begley states:

"What would it mean to try to 'see' the entire southwest border at once? To
travel the whole 1,954 miles in, say, six minutes?…
According to Google Maps, it would take 34 hours to drive its entire
length."

We wondered, why six minutes? Why should this heavily politicised place,
much of which is inhabited and sees a million people officially cross the
border every day, be so temporally reduced and become the visual equivalent
of what Begley terms is "a place abstracted into a sound bite"?

Employing the same tools and processes as the original, this film addresses
the issue by providing a slowed-down 34 hour variant. The result is a video
that traverses the landscape simulating the experience of traveling the
length of the wall as if traveling at the speed of a car. The scale of the
proposed construction is emphasised and each place that it will pass
through can be seen and identified. The video is accompanied by the
original soundtrack torturously stretched to the point of being noise and
as a result uncomfortable to listen at length, reminding the viewer of the
film's disturbing subject matter.

-- 
regards
Garrett
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Garrett at asquare.org
http://www.asquare.org/
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