Douglas Stan Television Spots AND Monodramas 1987-1991

Douglass «Monodramas,» ten 30- to 60-second videos from 1991, conceived as interventions into commercial television, interrupted the usual flow of advertising and entertainment when broadcast nightly in British Columbia for three weeks in 1992. These micronarratives mimic televisions editing techniques, but as kernels of a story they refuse to cohere. They are tales of dysfunction and dislocation, misanthropy and misunderstanding. When the videos were aired unannounced during commercial breaks, viewers called the station to inquire about what was being sold, their responses evincing how the media can refocus attention from content to consumption.

(Cf.: Guggenheim Museum, http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_work_md_41A_4.html)

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Douglas
• Stan
• Television
• Spots
• AND
• Monodramas
• 1987

[samdramtheory]

This is a RIP from a VHS (Concordia's VDEO350 class, if i remember it right) - there is no editing done by me

[Kindred1a1]

Seriously thank you so much !

I have an essay to write about this. People like you rock!

[samdramtheory]

@Kindred1a1 THX, I uploaded here for the same reason, those vids are hard to find

[ciberlucia]

G r e a T !

[endofthetunnel66]

you really should not have taken out the commercials - Stan would be pissed 

[ReesArchibald]

Thank you for posting this.