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Claudia Joskowicz's video installation titled "Jenny and David" examines every aspect of a typical filmic shot by dismantling, repositioning, and showing it simultaneously on five different channels. The particular shot represented in this piece is one in which both actors, though facing in the same direction, are speaking to each other. It is often used in movies and television, particularly in soap operas, to reinforce dramatic dialog and emphasize the actors' expressions. |
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In "Jenny
and David", the artist has two non-actor friends lip-synch a two minute
dialogue sampled from "Ship of Fools", 1965, directed by Stanley
Kramer. The desire to present oneself as a star, now available to anyone
with a video camera, structures the piece as representative of an undefined
place existing between mainstream television and art. |
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