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Tony Cokes | Scott Pagano | USA | 2001 | 10' |

| IFFR 2002

Third episode in a planned series of five bundled essays, in which Tony Cokes analyses and comments on the culture of pop music in a lucid and critical way. Instead of the usual coquetry and seductive images, Cokes confronts the viewer only with text and simple fields of colour.

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Soundings

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Héros

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Lost Sound

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Semi-automatic Cohen

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Electronic Organ Club

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Cascadence

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Contemporaries

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>Fader

The generic city, grey blocks of concrete are transformed into colourful, radiant compositions.
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