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VCR's Choice

Runtime:
14 min.
Year of Production:
2021
Country:
Canada
Cast:
Charlton Diaz
Production Company:
Berlinale Section:
Forum Expanded
Berlinale Category:
Experimental Film

VCR’s Choice combines digital, post-internet video aesthetics with their analog predecessor, the VCR, and playfully investigates (sub)histories of media and technology through the lens of queerness and underground culture: The mind can be a source of entertainment during periods of isolation with a wide variety of TV channels to choose from the past, present, and future. In VCR’s Choice devices from the last century are used to act as gates or levels of the imagination. The machines are unlocked through a series of energy exchanges which triggers emotional-like channel changes. The mind device must guide sexual impulse and practice self-care in order to free itself from old thought process and enter into new realms. 

 

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