14/ Dessert—Disaster

2017-2018
By Alison Nguyen
Duration: 3:54 min.

About the work:
A found footage work which compares the parallel cinematic language of dessert commercials with that of disaster porn found in the news and on the Internet. The sound, pulled from pedestrian-produced videos of demolitions, disasters, and storms, expresses the conditions of the contemporary crowd; its insatiable appetite for destruction and arousal; its inattention, its inability to look away; its anxiety and its ecstasy.