“The artist watching the weak doing the poor. The film-maker’s eye as voyeur’s lens. The camera as gun. If violence is the new sex, then TV news is the new pornography. Romance language yoked to the class struggle. Bulls eye. “This one’s about one-way interfaces in reference to class and power dynamics. It’s common in our culture for artists to live in low rent neighbourhoods, and therefore to witness the daily misery of the poor, which often informs their art. But this witnessing is generally done from an outsider’s perspective. At times this complex of watching, hearing, and recording can be seen as a kind of violence.” Music by Christine Fellows.
Saigon Apartments
- Film Maker
- Holden, Clive
- Year
- 2004
- Country
- Canada
- Language
- Format
- Length
- 2
- Genre
- documentary, experimental, hand-processed
- Category
- art & artists, Class-struggle, film studies, found footage, Literary/theatre, media studies, Mental Health, Portraits, Sound Art + Music


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