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Unearthed
time capsule transmits the crossed signals of performance artists,
circuit benders, culture-jammers and a mad scientist in the epic
experimental documentary from the WashMachine art collective.
Blending
science fiction and visual ethnography through audio/video processing
of the original and the copy, to reflect upon the dissonance between
the personal and cultural.
Pedestrian
interviews, stop-motion collage, science-fiction fantasy and
video-journal entries from a vibrant sub-culture of artists create a
collective current of questions and expressions from the first ten
years of wartime America.
In a unique
process of open collaboration and chance operations we are mixing
fiction with non-fiction to confront conflicts of cultural identity.
WashMachine Video Current is a precious document of a pivotal moment in
recent history and the subsequent years, as well as an experimental
ethnography of a modern community of artists.
Director: Jimi Pantalon
2001 -2010
72min*