SUPPOSED
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2006, 7 minutes
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SUPPOSED TO examines
how work in a capitalist system divides people from themselves.
Work often succeeds at limiting our individual agency while
paradoxically promoting individual freedom. Lack of agency
breeds apathy and despondency: we feel guilty for things we
didn't do, and shirk responsibility for things we made happen.
Reediting sampled footage and dialogue from science fiction
films, psychological thrillers and corporate training videos,
SUPPOSED TO builds a hybrid narrative of characters exhausted
by work, acting out, escaping conflict and misdirected blame,
and ultimately returning to an inevitable "deep wordless
knowledge" that shapes our shared reality. SUPPOSED TO
questions our ontological vocation, reminding us that our
destiny is still unknown. |
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