A video in two parts (“Starstruck ” and ” MGM: Movie Goddess Machine”), focusing on celebrity culture, identity, and the body. “What is Liz Taylor doing in my bed, in the bed of my friend Leland, as he dies of AIDS?” These and related questions are enacted in a series of encounters between the artist/ performer/spectator and a host of famous people from la Liz to Anita Hill. In Joan Sees StarsBraderman addresses the subversive potential of masquerade in a parade of video-assisted star sightings.
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