CARGO
Year:
2013
Format
HD
Runtime:
7'00
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
16:9
Sound:
Stereo
Language:
english
Subtitles:
no subtitles
Edition:
Edition #00
Synopsis:
Visual inspiration for the video Cargo are internet-found photographs of Nigerian internet scammers. They have been photographed in degrading poses on demand of Western internet users. Reminiscent of voodoo rituals, the images are revealed to be non-authentic only at a second glance. In Rosanna Graf's film, they are re-staged by actors. Next to dealing with the power relations between performing, viewing and filming, the video also confronts the fetish character of our products and the analogy between “primitive” religious rituals and our secular rituals in a Capitalist system. The text is inspired by the so-called “Cargo cult” and combines its belief in technology as God-given with our trust in science and progress.
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