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Authored in the wake of the David Wojnarowicz/National Portrait Gallery Censorship Controversy, BlindJob is a crudely animated reedit of Andy Warhol's seminal film "Blowjob." The original film, which obscures the action of the sex act in order to focus upon the resonance of the recipient's response, is further obfuscated by the addition of two "blank" boxes - the same proportion as the screen itself - covering the eyes of the actor. These additions interrogate notions of the gaze and censorship itself. To block the gaze in this manner, it seems, is a futile act, for these screens seem to gaze back and - at times - fail to hinder the mind's "filling in" of the image's gaps - through gestalt, we see the eyes anyway, and if not see, then at the very least imagine. This gesture of abstraction, therefore, fails in its promise to limit meaning and, in fact, expands the potentialities of interpretation.

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Film & Animation

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• andy
• warhol
• blow
• job
• blowjob
• censorship
• appropriation
• art