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the talking camera that talks for who it makes other

2025

3’37’’
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archival
analog sound "[T]he talking camera that talks for who it makes other" meditates on visuality through archival images that appear when searching "US-Mexico Border" taken and disseminated by reporters and newscasters in the USA. These seemingly protocoled, "objective" images are cast against the perpetrator's distance, bias, and self-attributed authority, immediately channeling these images into a millennium-old friend/enemy epistemology of empire. 

TTCTTFWIMO responds to an escalating narrative, one that has been fanatically instrumentalized as the "immigration crisis" for the role it serves in the US settler-colonial, imperial project. Attempts to historicize such "crisis" have been obsolete, rather, the 3-minute piece offers a genealogy of violence, a feedback loop that ruminates sound, image, and ideology.

Through color bias, audiovisual feedback, and critical dislocations, “the talking camera” reveals the tensions inherent to acts of image-making when visuality precedes the capturing of the image itself.





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