lunar
a scratch film by Sam Heydt
SYNOPSIS
Illusion won’t save us from reality, even as the sustained narrative of tabloids becomes history and the myth of progress continues to perpetuate violence and inequality. Globalization has moved forward unevenly and no one can say where this "New Frontier" is taking us. Our time is marked by deindustrialization and the exploitation of cheap labor, climate change and clean coal, nationalism and a refugee crisis. Yet, these portents are drowned out by the white noise of the media, which lure us in with the empty promises it proposes for the future it truncates. The transformation of the global landscape under the weight of industrialization is central to HEYDT’s work, as is the residual of consumption, and the material inequalities of a world reduced to a bottom line. Her interest also lies in the role semiology plays in cementing a phenomenology of commodification and a mythology of a fictional past. In its inexhaustible invention of deduction and speculation, the medium of capturing moving and still images is nothing more than a chemically processed imprint causally connected to reality.
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