<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><span><div><div class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj"><span><span>Announcing a new collaborative work by Garrett Lynch & Frédérique Santune</span></span></div></div><div class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj"><span><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj"><span><span>Best of Luck with the Wall (variant)</span></span></div></div><div class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj"><span><span><a href="http://www.asquare.org/best-of-luck-variant/">http://www.asquare.org/best-of-luck-variant/</a></span></span></div></div><div class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj"><span><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj"><span><span>-------------------------------</span></span></div></div><div class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj"><span><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj"><span><span>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: </span></span></div></div><div class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj"><span><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj"><span><span>"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?…</span></span></div></div><div class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj"><span><span>According to Google Maps, it would take 34 hours to drive its entire length."</span></span></div></div><div class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj"><span><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj"><span><span>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"?</span></span></div></div><div class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj"><span><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj"><span><span>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.<br><br></span></span>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span>regards<br>Garrett<br>_________________<br><a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:Garrett@asquare.org" target="_blank">Garrett@asquare.org</a><br><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.asquare.org/" target="_blank">http://www.asquare.org/</a></span></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div></span></div></div>