You Don't Bring Me Flowers

Michael Robinson

IndieLisboa 2007 • Laboratório

United States of America, Experimental, 2005, 8′

Viewed at its seams, a collection of National Geographic landscapes from the 1960s and 70’s conjures an obsolete romanticism currently peddled to propagate entitlement and individualism from sea to shining sea; the slideshow deforms into a bright white distress signal.

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