CrashCourse.mov

The point of departure for this video was the protest at Tiananmen Square in 1989, especially the scene in which a protester confronts a tank. In the Crash Course video, I moved this confrontation to the urban context. The tank is represented by the Hummer, a sports utility vehicle that was actually converted from military to civil use, while maintaining its connotation of wealth and power. Here the Protester makes use of the figure of the pedestrian but it is dressed for a war battle. What follows is a series of situations in which the pedestrian strikes the Hummer with the quixotic intention of reversing a situation of power in which he represents the weakest point.

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Film & Animation

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• art
• contemporary art
• de-tour
• alex villar
• HTTPvideo