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 Ant Farm,
USA, 1975,
26 min
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Genuine guerilla TV from
the famous San Francisco based video-activism collective.
On the 4th of July, amidst all the other spectacular
happenings (such as fireworks and traffic deaths) in
TV-culture that day, Ant Farm sets up the ultimate media
event. Every camera in town shows up to witness a 1959
Cadillac drive through a pyramid of burning TV-sets. The
message is for the media, get it ? This is good art as
well as good
entertainment somewhere in between a video
installation, a living sculptural object and, of course,
a performance. For in their ironic analysis of violence
and action on TV, these media-matadors even succeed in
bringing the defunct John F. Kennedy back to live. In all
honesty, the resurrected American president testifies
about Media Burn : "The world may never understand
what was done here today, but the image created here
shall never be forgotten". |
