AM/PM takes its title from a 24-hour supermarket. Las Vegas, sea of light in the desert, is recorded as a money machine that works day and night. Neon, the fantasy architecture that copies all the big sights of the world, gaming rooms, hotels – everything in this city is aimed at getting you to spend money as quickly as possible. ‘Our leisure time is designed by and inculcated with corporate culture’, says Sarah Morris on the basis of AM/PM and the series of paintings. ‘Ironically enough, nothing is left to chance, even though precisely that is the lure of gambling.’ (SB)
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Midtown
He’d not extreme of typical urban images, shot in midtown Manhattan with crazy light and colour captured in gleaming skyscrapers,swarming crowds and t -
Miami
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Los Angeles 2004
Portrayal of Los Angeles, the city that generates important images, shot in the days before and during the Oscars ceremony. -
Capital
Buildings in Washington such as Capitol Hill, the White House, the Defense Department and the building of the CIA show how political power is expresse
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1999
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2006
- Length
- 13'
- Medium/Format
- DV cam PAL
