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Suburban Peace Coalition

Laura Parnes

1999, 03:30 minutes, colour

tapecode 528.11

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Suburban Peace Coalition explores "end of the millennium hysteria" and the suburban desire to see the centres of sin, the metropolises of the United States, punished. Using distorted and repetitious images of New York's destruction as it is portrayed in numerous action movies including Independence Day and Armageddon… ⊕

Wrong Place, Wrong Time

Laura Parnes

1998, 06:00 minutes, colour/B&W

tapecode 528.10

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Wrong Place, Wrong Time uses appropriated images from the "reality television" genre to examine the seductiveness of the spectacle of tragedy. This video exists in an area where the division between reality and image are simultaneous. the images are of real explosions, disasters, deaths and assaults, from the nightly… ⊕

No Is Yes

Laura Parnes

1998, 40:00 minutes, colour

tapecode 528.09

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No Is Yes examines the inevitable co-option of counter culture through two teenage girls that accidentally kill and mutilate their favorite rockstar. It is inspired by MTV' s habitual use of experimental film and video techniques to render elaborate ads for their specialized product - the pop-star. It is further inspired by… ⊕

Talent Show

Laura Parnes

1996, 04:00 minutes, colour

tapecode 528.07

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Talent Show satirizes music videos, while exploring sexual development in the age of the spectacle. The images in Talent Show are from the same found footage as Performance. The young boys lip-synch to a bubble gum rock song as they attempt to publicly assert their new-found sexual power. This display is disrupted both by the… ⊕

Performance

Laura Parnes

1995, 04:00 minutes, colour

tapecode 528.06

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The images are derived from found footage of an 8th grade talent show and are combined with a list of gender-specific transformative sexual memories from the age of 4-18. These thirteen year-old girls perform an out of step dance reminiscent of A Chorus Line. Their awkward bodies sway in slow motion as the dancers dissolve from… ⊕

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