PRODUCEDVirtual Image Productions
WRITTEN AND DIRECTEDDouglas Porter
CAMERA AND EDITINGDouglas Porter
AUDIOMicah Lexier
FUNDINGCanada Council for the Arts
Modern technology has given us the capacity to perform the most contradictory of
tasks. An example is the call-in radio talk show that makes it possible for
two individuals physically separated by thousands of miles to carry on a conversation
that is simultaneously overheard by thousands of other individuals.
The result
is an acute displacement of all normal time and space sensibilities for everyone
involved. There are no immediately recognizable
side-effects: the ‘program’ works to specifications. However, the long-range
effects are inescapable.
The soundtrack is the program conversation from the side of the radio talk show
host. Based on a text by Jean Baudrillard.
PART TWO OF THE TIME SIGNALS TRILOGY
5:08 minutes NTSC 1990
DISTRIBUTION www.vtape.org