LIVE DISASTERS, by Andrew Venell
MUSIC/SOUND: Andrew Venell & Gabriel Grabin
PRODUCTION ASSISTANCE: Lauren Fleischer
EXPERT COMMENTARY:
Anthony Greenbank, The Book Of Survival (1967). Paul Virilio, Unknown Quantity (2002), Open Sky (1995). Don DeLillo, Libra (1988), White Noise (1984), Mao II (1992), Underworld (1997). Slavoj Zizek, Welcome to the Desert of the Real (2002). Jean Baudrillard, The Spirit of Terrorism (2002). FEMA, Are You Ready? A Guide to Citizen Preparedness (2002). Mary Ann Doane, "Information, Crisis, Catastrophe" (1990). Patricia Mellencamp, ed., Logics of Television, "TV Time and Catastrophe" (1990). ABC, NBC, CNN.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
Made possible with the assistance of the students and faculty of the San Francisco Art Institute.
"A society which rashly privileges the
present--real time--to the detriment of both the past and the
future, also privileges the accident."
--Paul Virilio