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.

   
   

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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