Video

I'd Like To Move On If I Could, Please

Doug Porter

1990, 05:00 minutes, colour, English

TAPECODE 348.05

Modern technology has given us the capacity to perform the most contradictory of tasks. An example in the cultural realm is the call-in radio talk show that makes it possible for individuals physically separated by thousands of miles to carry on a conversation that is simultaneously overheard by thousands of other individuals. The result is an acute displacement of all normal space and time sensibilities for everyone involved. There are no immediately recognizable side-effects: the "program" works according to specifications. However, the long range effects are inescapable.
The images of the tape (domestic interiors, telephones, astronauts and space capsules) are computer manipulated from various appropriated sources. The soundtrack is the program conversation from the side of the radio talk show host.

I'd Like To Move On If I Could, Please is based on the audio work "Last Word To The Caller" by Micah Lexier.

Vidéo expérimental critiquant les programmes de radio à ligne ouverte - la technique médiatique la plus démocratique de toutes celles qui servent à induire le public en erreur. Seule la voix pleine d'ennui de l'animateur se fait entendre, alors que la plainte de l'auditeur branché au téléphone est ponctuée d'extraits d'un texte de Beaudrillard.

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