Part soft-core pornography, part political allegory and part Modernist play with media, Trigger is a sermon about masculinity, sex, surveillance and violence. A study of the transformation of the look in the age of the panoptic principle between punishment and pleasure, between pleasure and pain. See also Crandall’s other contribution to the Power: Play programme, the launch of the on-line discussion forum Under Fire (Witte de With).
Also in this combined programme
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Let me Count the Ways
Another instalment in the never-ending saga of Peggy and Fred in Hell, a project that Thornton continues to elaborate upon since more than a decade.… -
The Light
From one lone street lamp to the brightest light ever made, The Light culminates as a metropolis beacon reaches skyward. Ultimately, the attempt to pierce… -
Alice in Wonderland or Who is Guy Debord?
Alice, unhappy with her prim, proper existence in Victorian England, travels through time into an age that metaphorically resembles our own. There, she encounters malicious,… -
Vietnam Romance
Vietnam Romance is entirely made from sources that only exist on the computer: games, graphics and music. This remix of the `familiar’ Vietnam war with…
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2002
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2004
- Length
- 18'
- Medium/Format
- Betacam SP PAL
