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
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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
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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,
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Vietnam Romance
Vietnam Romance is entirely made from sources that only exist on the computer: games, graphics and music. This remix of the `familiar’ Vietna
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2002
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2004
- Length
- 18"
- Medium/Format
- Betacam SP PAL
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