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Mercy – Is This What You Were Born For? Part 7

Abigail Child

Body, Meda

1989

Country: USA

Duration: 10 mins

Colour,

Sound: opt

Available Format/s: 16mm

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Images and sounds of American mass media, are dissected and carefully composed into a rapid-fire montage which reveals the processes at work. The myth of the ‘body beautiful’ is effectively debunked in an overwhelming swirl of movement and sound. – A.C.

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