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How Strong
The Children 12-second excerpt in which the mother is heard to ask one daughter if she had time to play; admonishes another daughter not to touch (play with) “the camera”; tells one daughter not to shout, and hears from one daughter that “I’ll be the same kind (of mother)”. 668 K (more info...) |
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How Strong
The Children 15-second excerpt in which the mother is heard to tell one daughter “you won’t get on the computer, that’s for sure”; the same daughter is seen playing on a computer; another daughter is heard whispering “I can’t hear you” then repeating, loudly, the words “Sound, Noise”... 852 K (more info...) |
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If Spring,
Then Hope, And Also Winter 12-second excerpt in which, as a child lies prone on a hospital bed—apparently dying if not dead, a male voice is heard singing “If they took away you, that would be the end of you” and a female voice is heard in refrain: “What would I do? What would I do?” 688 K (more info...) |
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Everyone
Must Tighten Their Belts 10-second excerpt in which a labor relations expert of sorts addresses “the difference between opportunity present (no matter how hard you work) and opportunity not present.” 576 K (more info...) |
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Everyone
Must Tighten Their Belts 11-second excerpt in which a labor relations expert of sorts explains how she became interested in labor relations. It appears to be something to do with unemployment. 588 K (more info...) |
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Queen
of the Mist 25-second excerpt in which Annie Edson Taylor, having lost all means of gainful employment, contemplates throwing herself into the Saginaw River (the beginnings of her idea to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel). 1.3 MB (more info...) |
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La Blanchisseuse 33-second excerpt in which, over an image of a woman ironing—reminiscent in composition of impressionist paintings of laundresses, text from Denise Levertov’s poem Intrusion scrolls upwards, addressing the “pull” of the nurturing role for women. 1.7 MB (more info...) |
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Keep
Moving 21-second excerpt in which two women run and trains pass—increasingly frenetically. The shadow of a lampost also traverses the screen. 1.1 MB (more info...) |
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Veneo
Video Viceo 14-second excerpt in which two partners in a home video marketing company discuss whether the making of an “off” mainstream video is or isn’t following a market in its own way. 792 K (more info...) |
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Veneo
Video Viceo 33-second excerpt in which a cyclist crosses the scene from left to right. Texts reflect on the likelihood that if he were a part of the story, he would turn back to the scene soon after leaving the shot—while if he were a genuine part of the neighborhood, he’d have carried on... 1.7 MB (more info...) |
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Cars
Are Like A Party 10-second excerpt in which a seven year-old girl recites from a poem she wrote—“I hear only traffic—a kind of disease.” 560 K (more info...) |
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After
The Paint Has Dried 16-second excerpt in which a man begins telling the story of how he dialed a wrong number and, getting someone’s answering service “Couldn’t simply say ‘Oh, I’ve dialed the wrong number’...” 860 K (more info...) |
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After
The Paint Has Dried 20-second excerpt in which the man who dialed the wrong number continues to tell how he decided to cover his mistake by leaving a message for Ernest Borgnine—only to discover he was in fact speaking to Ernest Borgnine’s answering service. 1 MB (more info...) |