Negativland - Time Zones, Miguel Soares, 2003

Time Zones
2003 5'28''
video animation
audio: Time Zones, Negativland, Escape From Noise album/cd, Seeland Records, 1987
www.negativland.com
In 1994 I made a video for Negativland's "Crosley Bendix discusses the copyright act" (The letter U and the Numeral Two, 1992) This video was made without their notice.
This was the first video work I ever presented.
By October 2002, Alexandre Estrela (artist and friend living in New York) meets Mark Hosler from Negativland during a presentation of some of their videos at the Anthology Film Archives in New York, and tells him about my old video. Mark asks me to send the video.
A month later Negativland invites me to make a video from any audio work of my choice. I choose Time Zones.
Time Zones is about time and size, United States versus Soviet Union, the cold war, the use of media as a vehicle for psychological warfare and the use of computers to control the "imperfections" of men.
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[Rick Hap]

Great, great video! Super work!

Your Clock has the letters NVS. It should read NBS. NBS = National Bureau of Standards, now NIST. Easy to hear the B as a V in the audio.

[chibbbo]

Thanks! Well, it was discussed with Negativland during the making of the video in 2002, and according to their transcription it was NVS...

[jrandu]

Wait ... someone made a video for "Time Zones"?

Wait! It's actually a damn good video?!

THAT'S NOT EVEN FUNNY.

[Jason Aquino]

Thurs...theres two things you dont talk about, one is politics and the other one is religion, the....the reson you dont talk about them is because they combine in each other....Thats why we need to have computers..cause no man is perfect....

This video is insane...Negativland is my favorite band.....it just dosent get any better than this like a coke and a smile

[Ronny Biggs]

Like if KoL brought you here.

[Mum2Boys]

HOW MANY TI-

[66flamer]

and funny thing.....the u.s. has 6. 6 time zones. thank you for this post.

[Dewane Van Leuven]

Yessir. Yessir. Onetwothree...uh Nosir. 

[stickman225]

"There's, there's two things you don't talk about; one of them is politics and the other one's religion. The reason you don't about them is because they're combined in each other."

[stickman225]

"Ah... yes sir ... Ah ... no sir"

[StopStaringAtMyBoobs]

Thank you for making such a great video.

[StopStaringAtMyBoobs]

Eleven.

[Michael M. Butler]

The boy isn't lying on skins. /quibble