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Slow Kill
2007
This video installation appropriates National Geographic footage of “the kill” a term given to the chase and the inevitable death of one animal by another. This gruesome scene is marketed and sold to tourists as a version of a “real” African experience and therefore something they have to see. It is portrayed in nearly every documentary film and thus becomes a mediated image that is understood to its audience; it is familiar to them and thus looses its sensation. The footage is slowed down to become still images, which stay static for 24 seconds before changing to the next.