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Parabolic People

Director in Person
Directed by Sandra Kogut.
Brazil/France, 1991, video, color, 40 min.
French with English subtitles.

Kogut explores the boundaries of the video image with her use of "windows" as a motif to bring together such disparate locations as New York, Tokyo, Dakar, and Rio de Janeiro and to find subtle, and occasionally absurdist, connections between them. Video booths were installed in the various cities and people invited to spend thirty seconds alone with the camera, discussing common issues. The ensuing collage is a brilliant, ironic commentary on the globalization of cultural "diversity" and the manner in which it is packaged by the media.

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