This is an ethnographic - sociological - video story about a girl... a girl who lives in a mediated world. All the video clips here were scanned from basic cable TV, using only a DVR and a desktop computer, during the week of 15-22 January 2006. All were complied and edited to tell a story of the enormous pressures of being ‘female’, and coming of age in a visual world filled with extreme, violent, conflicting, and exploitive images. Indeed, much of TV looks like this.
Now, of course, little here is new. What is new, however, is the ability to use our ubiquitous media tools to interrogate and fragment an insistent mediated world. Only with them can we truly see the power of media images... it is something words alone cannot do.
This video (without audio) was commissioned for:
Michael Whalen - Music in the Dark 4
French Institute, New York City 2006
Our Body Media 2006 (6:30)
